Vessel Meats Alderney Landing Farmers’ Market 2 Octherloney Street Saturdays, 8am-1pm “It was about having good food, having good food supply and treating animals respectfully,” says Brianna Hagell, butcher, local food advocate and proprietor of Vessel Meats. “People talked about it whole weekend—it being empowering.” She’s just back from Grrls Meat Camp, which aims to […]
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20th Century Women is eminently watchable
In 2010, Mike Mills put part of his life story to screen—the part where his elderly father came out as gay. That lovely, delicate movie, Beginners, won an Oscar for Christopher Plummer. With 20th Century Women, Mills has created an ode to his mother and cast her in Annette Bening’s image (what a privilege). It’s […]
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Moonlight‘s powerful glow
In 2008, Barry Jenkins wrote and directed the best independent drama of that year, Medicine for Melancholy. A quiet two-hander about a one night stand that turned into something more, essentially in real time—with some class and gentrification issues deftly weaved in—it was assured and gentle, poignant and disarming. He brings that same care and […]
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Stick to your guns, filmmakers
Of all the art forms, film requires the most people and the most money. You can start and end a single day and have a finished song or drawing or painting. But films need many more people and you have to feed those people and if some of them are in unions then you have […]
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Making the case for A Garfield Christmas Special
So you’ve got your typical holiday binge slate—Charlie Brown, Rudolph, Frosty, all the Dunder-Mifflin holiday party episodes of The Office, a month’s worth of Simpsons Christmas (“Shove this up your stocking!”) and splicing together various movies from their multiple cable viewings. And Garfield the Cat, that greedy, pasta-loving, lazy-yet-innovative feline, isn’t really having a moment […]
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Bow down to Moana
Like Frozen, Moana is a princess story. Also like Frozen, it has been mismarketed to hide the fact that it’s a female empowerment story. (Unlike Frozen, its songs won’t attach themselves to the backside of your brain.) Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) is heir to the chiefdom of Motunui, a Polynesian island her people haven’t left for […]
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Arrival‘s beautiful humanity
If you needed a person to save the world through words, of course you’re going to send someone like Amy Adams, whose particular brand of steely warmth—she is kind and empathetic but you should not mistake her for a pushover—has carried her from a bit part on The Office to the top of the movie […]
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Review: Money Monster
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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Review: Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Nobody tries very hard in the sequel to 2014’s best comedy—it’s the same movie except Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen battle a sorority instead of a frat—which detracts some humour points. But with a cast this great—especially Zac Efron; Byrne, 2014’s standout, sadly gets less to do and a rehash of insane/grossout scenarios, plus a curious and enduring feminist streak—you’ll […]
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Review: The Lobster
What if being single was a crime? A dystopic future of marrieds is the world posited by The Lobster, but that’s just the logline. Here’s what actually goes on: There’s a place where eligible singles gather. They have 45 days to find a mate—hetero, natch—and if they fail they’re turned into an animal of their […]
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Review: I Saw The Light
Sandwiched between last month’s Chet Baker biopic Born To Be Blue and next week’s Miles Davis film Miles Ahead is I Saw the Light, which did a round on the fall festival circuit first. It stars Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams, who in about a half-decade career managed to become an icon, despite—according to this movie, at least—being a […]
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Review: Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle takes the often-staid musician’s biopic and turns it on its head with Miles Ahead, a presumed account of Miles Davis’ life somewhere between 1975 and 1980, when he was hiding out in his New York mansion, high on cocaine and playing not a note. When Rolling Stone reporter David Braden (Ewan McGregor) shows up with the aim […]