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SXSW Film Review: 32 SOUNDS (Sam Green, 2022)

Posted on March 15, 2022 by guestwriter in Movies, South By Southwest | Leave a comment

32 SOUNDS is seemingly custom-designed to be one of those tiles that lives forever in the scroll of your local library’s free online streaming service: An intriguing, brain-teasing but ultimately meagre documentary built to bestow a greater appreciation for the world around you, but may just end up being better suited to helping you fall asleep on the couch on a lazy spring afternoon. Award-winning documentarian Sam Green invites the viewer (or, more earnestly, the listener) on a journey through … →

Film Review: Artificial Gamer (Chad Herschberger, 2021)

Posted on October 22, 2021 by guestwriter in Movies | Leave a comment

by Nash Bussieres In Artificial Gamer, Dota is described as Basketball meets Chess – and there’s merit in that. But it’s more like if in your basketball/chess game, you and everyone on the court also got a gun. Dota is a mechanically intensive, heavily strategic team game of mutually assured destruction. Every character in play has abilities and powers that can have devastating consequences and completely shift the tide of battle if used perfectly. So the question posed by Artificial … →

Concert Review: Alex Lahey, November 22, Drake Hotel

Posted on November 27, 2017 by guestwriter in Concerts | Leave a comment

by Melody Lau It’s always neat to see what touring musicians are most excited about when they first touch down in Canada. For Australian Alex Lahey, her immediate thoughts upon entering the country for the first time may or may not have been inspired by the name of the venue she was playing at on Wednesday night, the Drake Hotel. “Drake and I house-swapped,” she eagerly told the crowd, noting that our “6 God” was in her hometown that same … →

Hot Docs Review: A Cambodian Spring [Chris Kelly, 2017]

Posted on May 4, 2017 by guestwriter in Hot Docs | Leave a comment

A Cambodian Spring is a sobering look at a protest movement beyond Western society’s usual attention. The film follows three Cambodian activists as they fight for land rights in the Boeung Kak area where the poor are forced off their own land in the name of economic development. The characters are smartly chosen to show the struggle for social justice. Two of the activists are young mothers who are actually living in the area and are forced to take a … →