The Good, the Bad, and the Critic
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…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Critic
Though there have been many books that analyze film and the significance of children in them, none can compare to Mark Cousins’ documentary A Story…
The Good, the Bad, and the Critic
I have watched many strange animated films, but none as peculiar as Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver’s Asphalt Watches. The film yields a Gonzo-esque experience –…
The Good, the Bad, and the Critic
This Ain’t No Mouse Music! (2013) is an intriguing documentary by co-directors Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling. Their subject is Chris Strachwitz, a now-elderly record…
The Good, the Bad, and The Critic
During the month of September, in the middle of the North Atlantic, a fishing boat sinks. The crew of six escapes into two dories as…
Things Withered
We know Winnipeg-born Susie Moloney from her novels A Dry Spell, The Dwelling, and The Thirteen. Moloney, who currently spends time in New York, tends…
Big Fun in review
As one night of the event Big Fun, itself paired with the New Music Festival, Jan. 24 at the barely ventilated Windsor Hotel was a…
‘I am B.A. Johnston, and I’m sorry’
A B.A. Johnston performance has very little to do with music; it’s a booze-soaked whirlwind of sad-sack ditties interrupted by moderate acts of destruction. The songs…
The Good, The Bad, and the Critic
F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic Nosferatu–starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok—portrays a merciless vampire interested in a new castle to lure his victims to and, more…
A prophecy of decay
Ontarian-turned-Manitoban Lauren Carter has written for literary journals and newspapers such as Prairie Fire and the Globe and Mail, and released her poetry collection, Lichen…