Interview

Franz Ferdinand Chase Their Own "Holy Grail" of Pop
PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2025
"I like art that comes with a freshness; with a perspective that you haven't seen before, but is comprehensible," Alex Kapranos tells...
'Young Werther' Celebrates 2000s Toronto Through a "Haze of Nostalgia"
PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2025
"There's this idea that only films set in New York, Chicago or Paris will play," says Young Werther director José Avelino Gilles Corbett...
'North of North' Is Celebrating Inuk Joy, as Its Creators Take Control of Their Own Stories
PUBLISHED Jan 7, 2025
In discussing the steps forward Indigenous cinema has taken in Canada in recent years, Inuk actor Anna Lambe states her desire for "soverei...
Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos Reflects on the "Exotica" of Toronto and His Family's Roots in the City
PUBLISHED Jan 6, 2025
Franz Ferdinand may be one of Glasgow's most famous exports, but, as it happens, frontman Alex Kapranos also has a familial tie to Canada's...
JUNO-Nominated Designer James Mejia Assesses Exclaim!'s Worst LP Covers of 2024, Shares the Secrets of Great Album Art
PUBLISHED Jan 3, 2025
As well as being the co-founder of Toronto indie institution Hand Drawn Dracula, James Mejia is a graphic designer who has been nominated...
Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp Bring "Very Human" Fears to the Blood-Sucking Monster of 'Nosferatu'
PUBLISHED Dec 23, 2024
For all the grief critics and cinephiles give to the film industry for constantly remaking and rebooting the same properties over and over...
Adrien Brody on the Timeliness of 'The Brutalist' and America's Enduring "Harshness"
PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2024
To understand the American Dream is to understand the changing tides of the 20th century's most powerful nation. Writer James Truslow Adams...
Menno Versteeg on Hollerado's Mistakes and Getting Choked Out by Paul McCartney's Bodyguard
PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2024
When Exclaim! catches up with Menno Versteeg in the office at Royal Mountain Records, the Toronto label that the singer-guitarist co-founder...