review
Liam Neeson takes A Walk Among the Tombstones
September 22, 2014Aim low; achieve average; feel awesome: this is Liam Neeson’s recent strategy for choosing roles. Your enjoyment of Scott Frank’s A Walk Among the Tombstones will depend heavily upon your expectations. What do you want out of a Liam Neeson thriller? Neeson’s recent flicks never surprise me; they all have inherent b-movie fun that leaves me neither completely enthralled nor entirely bored. I have seen him kick butt so many times, in so many different places, in so many different ways, and in so many different movies (Non- Stop, Unknown, and Taken, to name a few) that I expect this…
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Album review: The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt
September 15, 2014The fifth album from these New Jersey rockers, Get Hurt marks a change in the band’s tone with a less celebratory mood and more of a personal, melancholy feel. The album is said to be inspired by vocalist and guitarist…
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Empathizing with evil in The Drop
September 15, 2014Leaving uneasy after seeing The Drop, I looked down and noticed red ink had stained my hands like the bloodguilt the hero (and I) had experienced. None of it would wash off! Where are the movies with protagonists we can…
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In theory: no budget, no crew, no script
September 15, 2014Schrodinger’s cat, dinner party antics, and experimental filmmaking collide in James Ward Byrkit’s directorial feature-length debut, Coherence. This is one head trip of a movie that begins slowly as a dull and pointless visitation to one of the most tiresome…
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Dramatic Fringe
September 15, 2014For Body and Light – 3 stars Slow and pensive, this show was poetry in motion. The poetry and music of Ian Ferrier and choreography of Stéphanie Morin-Robert, Linnea Gwiazda, and Allison Burn, combined to create a vivid atmosphere full…
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Comedic Fringe
September 15, 2014Anatolia Speaks – 3 stars Anatolia is a Bosnian refugee who gives a presentation to her Canadian ESL class. It begins with the basics of her new life in Canada: where she works (Superstore), where she lives (a small apartment…
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Album review: The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
September 8, 2014Brill Bruisers, The New Pornographers’ sixth studio album and first in four years, is simultaneously an impressive return to form and a progression of the band’s sound. The album stands among the Vancouver collective’s best earlier works Twin Cinema and…
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The Terrors of terrorism
September 8, 2014What do you think when you hear the word jihad? Is it a brown-skinned, long-bearded man screaming “allahu akbar” with a bomb strapped to his chest, out to kill the infidels? There is also another jihad: the struggle that burns…
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Life After Beth: a zom-rom-com that lacks depth
September 8, 2014Life After Beth`s overblown tone is as forced and unbearable as trying to urinate kidney stones. The movie’s central pitfall is analogical to an uncoordinated idiot who attempts to spin plates on sticks while riding a unicycle, and juggling chainsaws.…
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Five fall albums to look forward to
September 2, 2014Aphex Twin – Syro Holy shit, seriously? Even Richard D. James’ most diehard fans long ago gave up hope that the mercurial madman would ever follow up his 2001 effort Drukqs with anything other than the occasional reissue. But, lo…
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