The tragic hilarity of hate mail
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…
Arts & Culture
Casati — ‘This Is Just To Say,’ 3.5/5
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…
The devastating consequences of “tech bro culture”
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…
Fox Glove — ‘Dead of Winter,’ 3/5
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”
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….
The most wonderful time of the year for holiday classics
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…
Furry fun for a fantastic cause
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…
Let them eat cake
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…
Squirrelly Dan’s gots a few words about Christmas
There are few Canadian comedians with as much heart and holiday cheer as K. Trevor Wilson. The award-winning comedian is most famous for his role…
Building student community through anime
From live-action remakes, to streaming services like Crunchyroll and old-fashioned bootlegs, anime’s continually growing influence on pop culture makes the case that Japanese animation is…