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Movie review: Whiplash drums up tense, tight thrills

Movie review: Whiplash drums up tense, tight thrills

There have been plenty of films about artistic torment and the rocky mentor-student relationship that often leads to success. But it has been some time since we’ve seen a mentor as maniacal as Terence Fletcher in Whiplash. Fletcher (J.K.
Theatre review: Rainmaker awash in prairie romance

Theatre review: Rainmaker awash in prairie romance

Predictability usually kills a play but in The Rainmaker predictability is as comforting as homemade pumpkin pie. You know Lizzie is going to get a man, you know the rainmaker is a conman and, shucks, you know it’s gonna rain.
Picks of the Week: Oct. 22 - 24, 2014

Picks of the Week: Oct. 22 - 24, 2014

State of the Arts: Life and death explored in Three Tall Women

State of the Arts: Life and death explored in Three Tall Women

Directing Three Tall Women has given Terence Kelly new insights into women and aging.
Poster of the Week

Poster of the Week

Show: Supersuckers with the Jolts, Oct. 22 at the WISE Hall Poster artist: Once again, Scott Beadle earns an appearance with this pulpy, B-movie inspired dose of undersea terror.
Picks of the Week: Oct. 17-21, 2014

Picks of the Week: Oct. 17-21, 2014

Sweet Spot: Saved by the gelato

Sweet Spot: Saved by the gelato

Main Street’s Chocolaterie de la Nouvelle France lives on
Movie review: Fury is forbidding fare

Movie review: Fury is forbidding fare

Fury Opens Oct. 17 at Scotiabank Theatre Fury isn’t Inglourious Basterds: there’s no cheeky banter while Nazis get scalped. Fury isn’t Bridge on the River Kwai either because it’s not hopeful enough for whistling.
Rebel Women fight for their rights

Rebel Women fight for their rights

History is very selective, which is why playwright Joan Bryans laboured to breathe life back into suffragette women whose stories faded from the public eye with her play Rebel Women, which runs Oct. 16 to Nov. 1 at Metro Theatre.
Picks of the Week: Oct. 15-16, 2014

Picks of the Week: Oct. 15-16, 2014