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When John Michael McDonagh made Calvary, a film about a good priest, he was hoping to get ahead of the wave of anti-church films coming our way. Well, now the wave has crashed with Spotlight, a film about the child sex abuse scandal in Boston. The story focuses on the Boston …
London based punk-rock band Savages have released their second album Adore Life. Savages achieved chart success back in 2013 with the release of their debut album Silence Yourself, which reached number 19 in the UK Albums Chart. The group was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2013 prize and their single Husbands …
Less than a year after the release of their last studio album Darling Arithmetic, Villagers have graced us with a new release: Where Have You Been All My Life. This new LP is not a standard studio album release however. Where Have You Been All My Life is a collection of songs …
A lot can be lost in translation. Film is a more immediate medium than the stage: when your face is 25 feet tall (because of a cinema screen, not gigantism), the performance doesn’t need to reach Row Z. In the transition from stage to screen, broad becomes subtle and – …
Russel Crowe was in the big smoke the other night to promote his newly directed film at JDIFF. Here’s the hotly anticipated review. Russell Crowe goes Oscar hunting in the directors chair with The Water Diviner, a historical fiction about a father’s search for his dead sons after the WWI …
We’ve all had that conversation with our friends about that hot girl when we were teenagers. “Would you still shag here if it meant being haunted by murderous spirits until you pass it on to the next person that’ll let you have your way?” That is the basic premise of …
Despite a relatively short life which ended in his assasination at 39 years of age, there are too many important events in the life of Martin Luther King for one film to reasonably cover. To achieve this would be take from the exploration of the man himself which, as important …