It’s the 1980s and Jordan Belfort is a self-made millionaire New York stock guy—you know, the ones who ruined the world recently. He loves sex workers, illegal drugs, throwing money around and having zero inner life or outside interests. The perfect person to play him is someone who has lived like this, so move outta […]
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) is a quiet, careful man who works in the negative assets department of Life magazine, down in the basement. He supports his mother (Shirley MacLaine), picks up the slack from his free-spirit sister (Kathryn Hahn) and balances his chequebook by hand. He’s in love with a girl at work (Kristen Wiig). […]
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Like everyone else this holiday season, Llewyn Davis is a total dick—the chief difference being he’s got a guitar and no fixed address. He’s knocked up Jean (Carey Mulligan, in a delightful, swears-laden appearance), he doesn’t have any money, he’s a burden on all of his friends and he can’t even scrounge up a winter […]
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Critics’ picks 2013: Music
DAVID DAHMS David Dahms AKA Odysseus Catfish Jenkins III, Big Titteh, Dubs, OCJ3, The Toothless Wonder, D-Double, DMN8R, One Dread and Potato Salad is a premature mic dropper and has been writing for The Coast since 2013. The Caravan LOCAL The Caravan (independent) “What Up Steve?” channelled frustrations with the federal government more than any other […]
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American Hustle
A 1970s con artist jam that runs in equal measures thrilling and tedious, David O. Russell’s American Hustle fails at greatness but lands squarely at good. The centrepiece performance is Amy Adams as Sydney, girlfriend to Christian Bale’s Irving, with whom she runs a number of scams, including art forgery and financial shakedowns. When Bradley […]
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Anchorman 2
The invention of 24-hour news brings Ron Burgundy and the gang to New York City in Anchorman 2, maybe you’ve heard of it? When GNN hire him on, Burgundy brings along Brick (Steve Carell), Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and Champ (David Koechner AKA Todd Packer); unfortunately their team is given the 2am-5am slot. In one […]
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Out of the Furnace
Christian Bale stars as one of the few guys in Braddock, PA in the thoroughly unpleasant Out of the Furnace, Scott Cooper’s follow-up to his lauded Crazy Heart. But while the town is decidedly blue-collar—cue the Eddie Vedder drone—the tone is a bit more Deliverance, what with a sweaty Woody Harrelson forcing hot dogs down […]
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Dog Day: Beyond the Fade
“Someone asked me where we got our name and I was looking up the definition of ‘dog day,’ cause I actually didn’t know, and it said ‘a period of inactivity,’” says Seth Smith. “I was like yeah, that sounds about right.” He laughs, but he’s being modest. Dog Day has been releasing cracked-pop records every […]
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5 Very Special(ish) Network Television Holiday Spectaculars
1 30 Rock, ”Ludachristmas” 30 Rock mostly killed it with guest stars (sit down, Hayek) but no one was deployed with such mischievous glee as Broadway dame Elaine Stritch, playing Jack Donaghy’s mother Colleen. As the TV gang prepares for Ludachristmas (not just because Liz Lemon parties are mandatory), Colleen sets about ruining Christmas for […]
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Wet Denim
The Halifax four-piece dropped two wet demos onto Bandcamp way back in the summer of 2012—the lilting, key-driven “Demagnetize” and head-bopper “Last Night,” a straight fucking jam with layers of verse vocal lines leading into a perfect pop chorus. Both appear on this awaited/anticipated full-length alongside eight other songs skillfully laced with keyboard lines, riffs […]
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Shearwater
The Austin trio takes an inspired approach to the covers record, highlighting songs from past tourmates on Fellow Travelers. It’s an interesting assortment of artists, including Coldplay, Clinic, Wye Oak, St. Vincent and Folk Implosion (please pass on the number of your booking agent dudes). Singer Jonathan Meiburg has a deep, beautiful voice in the […]
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Blue is the Warmest Colour
Sort of a French Brown Bunny, director Abdellatif Kechiche tests the audience’s love of banality with the lesbian love story Blue is the Warmest Colour. Teenage Adele (Adele Exarchopoulos) is a high schooler with a hot boyfriend she doesn’t like to have sex with, and she figures out why when she crosses paths with art […]