Sarah SleanThe Baroness(Warner)“And I don’t play the game with liars and cowards…like you,” sings Slean on her first single from The Baroness, called “Get Home”—a gorgeous expression of resignation in an album spiked with heartsickness. Slean’s played the part of “the other woman” before, in songs like “California” from her 2004 release Day One, but […]
Carsten Knox
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Bigger films need bigger spaces
Steve Gilmour keeps largely positive about the future prospects for the Nova Scotia film industry. For one, his Atlantic Film Studios is developing feature film scripts with European financers backing them. Those projects will be shot in Nova Scotia, taking advantage of what Gilmour calls “the best tax credit in the world.” But one problem […]
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The Gutter Twins
The Gutter TwinsSaturanalia(Sub Pop)You can’t stay angry forever but you can get asphalt-dark or swampy. This is the tale former Screaming Tree vocalist (and Queens of the Stone Age and Isobel Campbell collaborator) Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli (Afghan Whig, Twilight Singers) tell in the bones of their first record together. Like a pair of […]
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Diet and supplements
The sampler plastic package has a big, yellow happy face on it, with the predictable expression in one corner: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy!” It’s 100-percent vegetarian 5-Hydroxytryptophan, a serotonin building block. According to the label, it’s something to take to help with “PMS, mood and sleep,” amongst other things. It’s but one of a number […]
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No-brainer
There was a big one in December: I Am Legend, starring the world’s biggest movie star Will Smith, which broke box-office records. There were a couple last summer: 28 Weeks Later (the sequel to Danny Boyle’s shockingly good 28 Days Later), and Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror segment of Grindhouse. We even had one homegrown: Fido, […]
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Interview
InterviewDirected by: Directed by Steve BuscemiCinemavault ReleasingPierre (Buscemi) is an embittered political pundit, the kind of talking head who crops up on CNN and bores within seconds. After a falling out with his editor, he’s assigned off his beat, an interview with New York loft-dwelling superstarlet Katya (Sienna Miller), more famous for her party lifestyle […]
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Lie With Me
Lie With MeDirected by: Directed by Clément Virgo(Thinkfilm)This is the new film by Virgo, director of Rude and The Planet of Junior Brown, based on a novel by his wife, Tamara Berger (she also wrote the screenplay) and filmed in Toronto. Lie with Me premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival, but we shouldn’t be surprised […]
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Little Fish
Little FishDirected by: Rowan Woods(Warner)A Sydney, Australia-based drama, the picture takes a hard look into the lives of a community of junkies. Starring Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill and the amazing Hugo Weaving, the portrait of desperate people in a hyper-realistic milieu is difficult viewing but will stay with you, thanks to the soul-grinding performances.Carsten KnoxCategories: […]
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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Published December 08, 2005. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Directed by: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky (Paramount) Twenty years of creative and personal politics come to a head in this documentary about the legendary metal act. Sacrificing any lingering mystique, the band give the filmmakers almost uncomfortably intimate access, revealing the drive to be the best […]
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The Island
The IslandDirected by: Michael Bay (Dreamworks/Warner Bros.)Cremated by critics and ignored by the cinema-going masses, one of this summer’s biggest bombs is now available to be seen on DVD. Surprise, surprise — this Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbour) blockbuster is a great escape on video. Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett […]
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Road to Guantanamo
Road to GuantanamoDirected by: Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross (FilmFour)In the days following 9/11, four British men chose a very bad time to travel from Pakistan to Afghanistan. After the fall of the Taliban, three were held and shipped off to the infamous American military base in Cuba. They were imprisoned for over two years […]
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U2: ZooTV Live from Sydney
U2: ZooTV Live from Sydney(Island)The Irish rock band U2 will never be ambitious or outrageous as they were during this early ’90s tour, a concert as post-modern performance art extravaganza with costumes, characters and mixed media that includes performances of songs from their best recordings. Not since David Bowie has a rock act in the […]
