Theatre review: Titus Andronicus
This is a student production. Whatever your expectations are of Shakespeare, be sure to arrive knowing these are young actors (both in craft and age)… Read More
Theatre review: The Heart of Robin Hood
One of the most ambitious shows to wow a Winnipeg audience in years, this fractured fairy tale doesn’t add up to more than the sum… Read More
Theatre Review: Proud
I hope you go see it. Read More
Theatre Review: Armstrong’s War
Over the 80 minutes it takes to watch Armstrong’s War, people are drawn to each other. That doesn’t just describe the relationship of the play’s… Read More
Theatre Review: Small Things
The saddest thing in Small Things isn’t any part of the story Read More
Theatre Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily
A thoroughly mediocre melodrama chosen more for its marketability than its merit Read More
Moshi Moshi: The comedy of circus and the chaos of communication
When a pair of circus veterans put together a show featuring skills and collaborations that even they have never seen before, the audience is in for a real treat. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Zoolander
He was a man with a simple dream, to parlay his successful modelling career into the creation of the "The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too." Read More
Navigating Netflix: Superbad
There’s a point when you’re in high school and you think everything that will ever matter is happening right then and there. People are constantly… Read More
Kablooey cinema is destroying hollywood
We have entered a dark age for film in North America, a dark age made all the more apparent by the golden age that TV is experiencing. Read More
Theatre review: Good People
Hooray for a play that doesn’t tie everything up neatly. Walking out of the theatre, there’s room left for the audience to debate not just a few key plot points but important questions of fate, class, and making your own luck. Read More
Theatre review: Harvest
Do veteran Canadian audiences really want this kind of Harvest? Read More
Through two lenses: Sydney Pollack’s ‘The Yakuza’
With accusations of cultural appropriation and promotion of ‘yellowface’ behaviour, controversy ensued February after the Winnipeg Art Gallery decided to use ‘Big in Japan’ as the theme of their annual Art & Soul fundraiser. Read More
Theatre review: Kim’s Convenience
A Korean take on the family sitcom is elevated less by its ethnic update than by the faultless comic performance of its lead. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is ultimately a clever romantic comedy that delivers enough unique laughs to set it apart from the pack of romantic comedies that inundate theatres. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Comic book movies beyond the norm
All three of these movies are great watches and stray from the Marvel/DC norm that contemporary film goers are used to. Read More