Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Jiving and swinging into the roaring ’20s with UMSwing

By
Zachary Sigurdson
Welcome to the ’20s everyone. While war, violence and environmental collapse seem to encroach more and more each day, maybe there are some trappings of a bygone era that aren’t all that bad. For instance,...
Arts & Culture

The tragic hilarity of hate mail

By
Grace Anne Paizen
If you missed the Manitoba debut of Cranks in October, you luckily have a second chance to see the film at Cinematheque. The film is best pitched by adapting the opening lines from Canadian...
Arts & Culture

Casati — ‘This Is Just To Say,’ 3.5/5

By
Kaelen Bell
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...
Arts & Culture

The devastating consequences of “tech bro culture”

By
Grace Anne Paizen
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...
Arts & Culture

Fox Glove — ‘Dead of Winter,’ 3/5

By
Kaelen Bell
Whether you enjoy Fox Glove’s brief three-song holiday EP will be entirely predicated both on your pre-existing feelings about Christmas songs.
Arts & Culture

Presenting “‘Heritage Minutes’ from hell”

By
Zachary Sigurdson
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...
Arts & Culture

The most wonderful time of the year for holiday classics

By
Manitoban staff
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...

Popular

spot_img