Arts & Culture
Casati — ‘This Is Just To Say,’ 3.5/5
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In Casati’s wide-eyed vision of folk music, there’s a refreshing absence of whisky and murdered wives — rather, the trio crafts a gentler world, one that sidesteps the genre’s more obvious tropes in favour...
The devastating consequences of “tech bro culture”
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The short documentary Losing Lena is a dense but educational film that examines how women were pushed out of the tech industry.
The film thoroughly explains how women — who were thoroughly involved in the...
Fox Glove — ‘Dead of Winter,’ 3/5
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Whether you enjoy Fox Glove’s brief three-song holiday EP will be entirely predicated both on your pre-existing feelings about Christmas songs.
Presenting “‘Heritage Minutes’ from hell”
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Watching the trailer for Matt Rankin’s The Twentieth Century requires more than a bit of mental gymnastics to realize what the film is actually about.
It’s an absurdist film about former Canadian prime minister William...
The most wonderful time of the year for holiday classics
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It’s that time of year again — holiday movies will be on every channel of the dial for the next month. But what makes a holiday movie a holiday movie? Is The Nightmare Before...
Furry fun for a fantastic cause
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Although the U of M brings in dogs from time to time as a student mental health initiative, there is a largely unknown way in which students can interact with furry friends on a...
Let them eat cake
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The kings of off-kilter, dumb-in-the-smartest-possible-way alternative rock Cake stands among the likes of the B-52s, Ween and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — bands whose goofiness belies a beating human heart, whose music...
