Just before the glut of summer moviedom comes a movie for grown-ups. Neither franchise entry nor reboot nor app-turned-feature, Money Monster is an old-fashioned Hollywood thriller starring a pair of vets—Julia Roberts and George Clooney—directed by another, Jodie Foster. Clooney is Lee Gates, a roguish asshole who hosts a gimmicky show called Money Monster, in which he fast talks and […]
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Close Knits
Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, The Cable-Knits has crossed this mighty continent to bring you their idiosyncratic, fuzz-mangled pop ditties. Comprised of songwriters Nate Waters (Hunter Gatherer) and LeeJay Dunphy (Stawart Sons), the two take a collaborative approach to create singularly scatterbrained songs. “This band is a truncated version of mine and Lee’s extended courtship. We […]
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Larry Crowne sweet, schmaltzy
Larry Crowne is very cute and very slight. Director Tom Hanks is also the titular Crowne, one of his typically effervescent-but-naive characters, a wageslave at the local big box suddenly downsized. His neighbour clues him into the possibility of adult education, so off he goes to community college, where the decades-younger students welcome him as […]