Month: June 2016
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Jazzfest: Metric
Metric hits Saskatoon for the Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival and makes the audience feel like they’re all one tight, intimate group of music loving friends. Lead singer Emily Haines rollicked onto the stage with ferocity and wasted no time in wowing the eager crowd at this year’s SaskTel Jazz Festival. The band started strong and…
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Sled Island: CFCR Tubby Dog Showcase!
Sled Island is this week, and one of the shows we love to hit each year is the CFCR Community Radio Showcase at Tubby Dog. Sled Island Music Festival is upon us again! While there are a ton of great bands in a variety of venues, one of my favourite parts of the festival is…
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Purple Rain (The Movie)
After Prince’s passing, we sat down and watched the movie that helped launch his career to iconic status — the bizarre and hilarious Purple Rain. After the death of Prince, society collectively sifted through our record collections to remember the man and his musical legacy. We talked (or wrote) about how his music touched our…
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High-Rise
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, based on the ‘unfilmable’ JG Ballard novel, is a boldly realized vision and a biting, knowing comment on where capitalism takes us. High-Rise opens with the monstrous concrete luxury tower invoked by the film’s title. The tower’s cascading top floors look as if the structure was designed to topple over — we…
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Preacher
AMC’s adaptation of The Preacher, from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, debuted with a pilot that featured a lot of table setting but showed promise. A baby cries in the distance as the viewer flies through outer space — that’s the setup for the new AMC comic-adapted show about a man-of-God in Texas. Preacher debuted…
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Angry Birds: The Movie
For some weird reason (probably because he has kids), William went to see Angry Birds. Now it just seems like he’s a really angry bird. Last weekend was just another opening day weekend in May with what could have been a tentpole for animated movies this summer. As an avid sci-fi/fantasy/comic book/animated movie buff, I…