White Bird In A Blizzard is about a daughter looking back to a time when her mother disappeared on her and her father. The movie reflects on issues like sex, love, affairs, and jealousy. Starring Shailene Woodley as daughter, Kat, Kat becomes curious as to why her mother left her family when she was…
Canadian R&B singer The Weeknd mixes old and new for his debut album He’s the best, worst-kept secret around. Abel Tesfaye, the 22 year-old Ontario native better known as the Weeknd or simply XO, has seen his career reach new highs in the last year. While die-hard fans claim they knew him from before his…
Eric Axen and Sightlines breathe new life into the genre When Eric Axen decided to start pop-punk band Sightlines, he wasn’t worried that people might be sick of the simple song structures and hooky riffs that Blink-182 and Green Day used in the mid-’90s and early ‘00s. “I think we’ve had about five years’ reprieve…
Despite its critical role, Canada’s involvement gets unjustly overlooked the film adaptation of the 1980 hostage rescue mission Before Ben Affleck hits the Oscar trail for his film Argo, he needs to account for the proverbial bitch-slap he handed Canadians with his film. Argo, based on the 1980 joint US-Canadian effort to save six American…
Directed by: The Wachowskis, Tom Tykwer Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess Running time: 164 minutes It is likely that Cloud Atlas will be the film that fills theatres for the next three months, gets quoted endlessly on Facebook, and inspires various Halloween and cosplay costumes. The movie has the same attractive…
Author’s post-Potter debut overcomes some contrived mature themes to deliver an engaging look at human nature This is not Harry Potter. Feel free to repeat that to yourself as many times as necessary while reading The Casual Vacancy. That’s not to say that J.K. Rowling’s latest book doesn’t deliver, but the author’s return to writing…