Open City Docs Review: Songs for the River
I don’t think any of us will ever forget 2021 and the impact that COVID-19 has had on all our lives (even if we sometimes struggle to remember what came…
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TIFF Review: Listening to Kenny G
I have a distinct memory, from childhood, of hearing Kenny G’s Songbird in an electronics shop. I must have been about 10 years old, but that song seemed to be…
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TIFF Review: Kicking Blood
Vampire myths and legends are part of folklore in almost all corners of the world. In Europe, they often reflected the prejudices and fears of the society in which they…
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TIFF Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
The Western world prides itself (often incorrectly) on being progressive, tolerant and inclusive. However, as the recent judgement in Texas highlights, hard won women’s rights can easily be eroded and…
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Track: Night Thieves – Atoned
UK heavy rockers Night Thieves, have shared their second single ‘Atoned’ taken from their new EP, ‘Spiral’, due 17th September. A brooding intense track with a dirty big riff that’s…
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TIFF Review: Maria Chapdelaine
The colony of New France was established in 1534 with permanent settlements springing up at the beginning of the next century. The area changed name, boundary and ownership several times…
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TIFF Review: As in Heaven
In Europe today we take for granted the rights of children to have a childhood. Education is mandatory, for the vast majority, up until the age of 16 (or thereabouts).…
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Album Review: Youth Group’s Toby Martin’s solo album ‘I Felt the Valley Lifting’ is an uplifting amalgam of mystical realism and the minutiae of everyday life.
Toby Martin (Youth Group) has a distinctive angelic voice and astute ear for indelible melodies, but more than anything his new solo album ‘I Felt The Valley Lifting’ reveals in…
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TIFF Review: The Girl and the Spider
The butterfly effect theory posits that even a slight change in an initial condition can have a much greater impact on a later event. As the saying goes, if a…
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TIFF Review: Aloners
Traditionally, anyone living alone was, at best, considered odd, and at worst, a witch, warlock or some kind of pervert. The only people who generally managed to get away with…
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