On September 24, VUSAC hosted their first concert for a series called “Cat’s Eye Concerts” and was able to score a very special artist—Jazz Cartier. In April, he released his debut album Marauding in Paradise and was longlisted for a 2015 Polaris Music Prize. Born in Toronto, Jazz has been working very hard on writing […]
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In the new film Phantom Boy, police officer Alex Tanguey is injured on the job during a run-in with an enigmatic villain whose colourful, fragmented features earn him the moniker “the Man with the Broken Face.” Recovering in the hospital with a broken leg, Alex meets Leo, a gentle and resourceful 11-year-old boy who suffers
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If you could take Larry Clark’s Kids and merge it with Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, you would get a film like Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story. Directed and written by Eva Husson in her directorial debut, the film explores the vivid sexuality of a group of teenagers in Biarritz, France. The plot centres
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An early scene in James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour depicts the first meeting between Jesse Eisenberg’s reporter Dave Lipsky and Jason Segel’s David Foster Wallace. Eisenberg awkwardly tries to break ice by commenting on the home and property, to which Wallace responds, “I can’t take credit for the view.” One thing that both
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In recent years, music festivals have positioned themselves firmly in mainstream consciousness, and what was once an alternative method of enjoying and experiencing music has now become a manufactured product of a growing industry. Many festivals in North America, like Osheaga, Wayhome, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo, are all big-time, for-profit festivals that try to recreate
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When the film industry heard that Gaspar Noé was in the process creating of a 3D art film, it collectively sighed, rolled its eyes, and moved onto more interesting topics. For those unfamiliar, Noé is known for the sheer provocation, controversy, and shock value that his films incur. Knowing the nature of his other work,
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Sketches from the Peabody Award-winning third season of Inside Amy Schumer were as shareable as GIFs on social media this summer. From one feed to another, people posted clips of her show while proclaiming to have just discovered the feminist icon of comedy…
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I’m a total award season junkie and I will definitely see all of the Best Picture nominees by January 2016, but I think it’s worth it to wait to gush over Tom Hardy’s double performance in Legend, Bryan Cranston in Trumbo, or Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld.
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As consumers of media, we have a seemingly insatiable appetite for mimesis. The characters, morals, and storylines from ancient mythology, religious texts, and canonical literature have been reshaped and repurposed in innumerable ways to create new pieces of literature, theatre, and cinema.
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When you live in a city as big as Toronto and are smashed between people going in different directions with different agendas, jobs, and lives, the human condition seems forgotten. It becomes a challenge to recall in the way we view the world.
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