Arts & Culture

The good, the bad, the critic

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Michael Carlisle
Bjork is one of the strangest artists in the world; weird is an understatement in attempting to describe her. The Icelandic musician is no stranger to controversy, she wore a shocking swan dress at...
Arts & Culture

The good, the bad, and the critic

By
Michael Carlisle
Romi Mayes is one of Winnipeg’s most colourful and enjoyable homegrown rockers. Mayes has been rock ’n’ rollin’ for the last decade. In 2011 she joined long-time friend Jay Nowicki (The Perpetrators) to write, record,...
Arts & Culture

The good, the bad, and the critic

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Michael Carlisle
The only thing Roger Ebert loved more than movies was Life Itself, according to the film’s tagline. Growing up in North America, it would be extremely difficult to not have heard of the late,...
Arts & Culture

The good, the bad, and the critic

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Michael Carlisle
It is impossible to review Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003) with a straight face, mainly because it is awful, everybody knows it is awful, and we choose to watch it anyways. It fails on...
Arts & Culture

The Good, the Bad, and the Critic

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Michael Carlisle
It’s not giraffe soup, peacock soup, or even chicken soup. Duck Soup is among the greatest comedies of all time, and is full of material that bends the rules whill still managing to leave...
Arts & Culture

The Good, the Bad, and the Critic

By
Michael Carlisle
Ah, LEGO: the original Minecraft. Who doesn’t remember playing with those small interlocking blocks in hopes of making a giant castle or a poorly assembled tower? Considering it’s such a popular toy, and films...
Arts & Culture

The Good, the Bad, and the Critic

By
Michael Carlisle
Pussy Riot is an all-female Russian punk band and performance collective which attempts to shake-up the established order and transform our views about politics, power, and religion. Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s documentary tracks the group’s...
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