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Fall Cultural Preview: Visual arts
With temperatures still in the sweltering double digits, it seems like summer has yet to release its muggy grip on Ottawa. But Mother Nature is, if nothing else, a fickle mistress and the weeks ahead will undoubtedly usher in...
 
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Fall Cultural Preview: Music
Dust the cobwebs off the long pants, kids, summer's done. But not to worry: Fall promises its usual horn of plenty to the Cap - namely, concerts. Getting things rolling this Sept. 3, New Teeth, The Gallop and Pruf Rock...
 
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Going the Distance
Even from a distance, Going the Distance doesn't look like your average romantic comedy. Though it stars Drew Barrymore, whose plucky rom-com heroines have been giving America the warm fuzzies since before...
 
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Cancer Bats embrace world-wide wackiness on the web
Hear ye, see ye: Toronto hardcore punkists Cancer Bats (www.cancerbats.com) have teamed up with online music news phenomenon AbsolutePunk.net to broadcast bi-weekly video webisodes of the band's entire overseas tours in support of their third and latest album, Bears, Mayors, Scraps &…


D.O.A. plan to be alive on arrival
There's been a lot of talk about veteran Vancouver punk band D.O.A.'s newest release, but up to this point not a lot of action. But that ain't the case anymore, as talk + action = an (almost) cross-Canada tour in support of Talk - Action = 0, the band's 13th studio album over the course…


Rural Alberta Advantage Heading to, uh, Alberta (among other Western places)
They say you can never go home again. A few things, here: Not too sure who "they" are, first of all, and second of all, of course you can go home again. That's how you get your laundry done. For free. Start-of-school related jokes aside, the Rural…


The Acorn Get the Nuts Remixed out of New Record 'No Ghost,' Announce Big Fat Fall Tour
Say, hypothetically, you spent a whole buttload of time at a cottage in Northern Québec. No matter how much you wanted to be away from everyone, and ensconced in what I can only imagine are lovely, bucolic woods (I've a tendency towards optimism),…


Great Lake Swimmers Record "Ballad Of A Fisherman's Wife" for Swim Drink Fish Music Club
Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker, on why he and his band recorded a song called "Ballad Of A Fisherman's Wife," released online by the Swim Drink Fish Music Club: "[It] was written after hearing, with great dismay,…




Prick Up Your Ears: To Be Gay, Free and Mischievous
Sensing trouble in a London flat, a policeman enters forcibly and finds Kenneth...
Daniel CharbonneauAug 30, 2010online : Aug 30 at 4:56pm
Takers: Takers (2010) - My comments
It is difficult to comment on this police action film. I usually bring out the...
Nicole St. CyrAug 28, 2010online : Aug 28 at 11:09am
Piranha 3-D: Cheesy fun
Here the thing with Piranha 3-D, you have to go into this movie without actually...
Martin RiouxAug 26, 2010online : Aug 26 at 5:34pm
Switch (The): Core Values.
For major decisions in life, we must be objective rather than subjective. Caissy...
Nicole St. CyrAug 25, 2010online : Aug 26 at 5:33pm
Going the Distance: Funnier than I anticipated
Before I went to see the movie I was expecting a rehash of an old theme and did not...
steven horovitchAug 26, 2010online : Aug 26 at 5:33pm
Switch (The): Do wait for Rental!
Not one of the best,but this far-fetched predictable romantic movie,based on a...
Vicky ParisellaAug 22, 2010online : Aug 24 at 6:10pm
Eat, Pray, Love: To love and feel loved.
The film allows us to appreciate what we have. In Bali, Asia, people depends on...
Nicole St. CyrAug 22, 2010online : Aug 24 at 6:10pm
Solomon Burke: The man. The voice. The legend.
There is not much in this world that can compare with listening to the sublime...
Reuven De SouzaAug 21, 2010online : Aug 22 at 3:04pm
Eat, Pray, Love: Hmmmm...
Elizabeth Gilbert's seemingly self-involved journey of discovery after her marriage...
Reuven De SouzaAug 21, 2010online : Aug 22 at 3:00pm
Mist (The): Astonishingly disappointing!
Given Frank Darabont's pedigree with regard to Stephen King adaptations, it was...
Reuven De SouzaAug 21, 2010online : Aug 22 at 3:00pm
Paranormal Activity: A terrific little terrifying film.
Paranormal Activity is an exercise in good horror and suspense filmmaking. That...
Reuven De SouzaAug 21, 2010online : Aug 22 at 3:00pm
Return to Me: An underrated underappreciated romantic classic.
Return to Me is the sort of film that will foreve separate those who are cynics and...
Reuven De SouzaAug 21, 2010online : Aug 22 at 3:00pm
Inception: The best film of the summer.
Kudos must go out to Warner Bros. for the chutzpah to finance a 160 million dollar...
Reuven De SouzaAug 21, 2010online : Aug 22 at 2:59pm
Juliette Lewis: not bad but could have been better...
The opening act the Balconies were pretty good. main girl singer had captivated the...
Ger MaddenAug 20, 2010online : Aug 20 at 1:57pm
Inception: Confusing
I partially agree with Martin Rioux's comment--I think this film is too over-hyped....
Julie MillerAug 20, 2010online : Aug 20 at 1:54pm
Switch (The): The Time of Your Life?
An interesting movie which seemed to showcase a lot of movie stars for example...
Cheryl RamnananAug 18, 2010online : Aug 19 at 5:21pm
Inception: long and boring
First of all, this review isn't my way of saying to that this wasn't an original...
Martin RiouxAug 16, 2010online : Aug 17 at 5:06pm
Expendables (The): Great Fun
I fun to finally see an action movie that actually got to gut to be an action...
Martin RiouxAug 15, 2010online : Aug 15 at 3:28pm
Eat, Pray, Love: Julia Roberts is back!
Based on a true story from Elizabeth Gilbert's best seller,the movie adaptation...
Vicky ParisellaAug 14, 2010online : Aug 14 at 5:23pm
Expendables (The): This movie blew like a BOMB!
The Expendables is one of those films that had me amazed. Amazed that this actually...
Jody HershAug 14, 2010online : Aug 14 at 5:23pm



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