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  Chris Rock Relived the Good Old Days on 'SNL' with Help from Adam Sandler

  December 14, 2024

  PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2024

  Chris Rock returned for a strong episode of Saturday Night Live, joined at one point by his 'SNL' castmate Adam Sandler, and Gracie Abrams...

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  The Tragically Hip and Feist's "'It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken'" Carries the Spirit — If Not the Sound — of Gord Downie

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  The Tragically Hip have wisely not reunited since singer Gord Downie's tragic death in 2017, but they closest they came was doing a...

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  Montreal's Graham Steinman Communes with the Sublime on 'migration's only natural'

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  Being from the middle of nowhere doesn't necessarily mean you feel connected to nature in a way others don't. On the contrary, people like...

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  Julien Baker & TORRES Refresh the Country Pivot on "Sugar in the Tank"

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  I don't know about you, but I'm a bit fatigued by the pivot to country. Country music's sounds and aesthetics have been infiltrating...

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  'Kraven the Hunter' Is Cravin' to Be Put Out of Its Misery

  Directed by J.C. Chandor

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  Sony's Spider-Man Villain Spin-Off Universe (or as Sony likes to call it, "Sony's Spider-Man Universe") has been a disaster, a series of ba...

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  'Queer' Burrows into Carnal and Cerebral Pleasures

  Directed by Luca Guadagnino

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  In the opening shots of Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer,' the camera observes numerous artifacts of the film's ensuing romance; two pairs of...

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  Apocalyptic Musical 'The End' Should Start Important Conversations

  Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer

  PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2024

  Joshua Oppenheimer wanted to make a third film about the Indonesian genocide. In the first two, 'The Act of Killing' and 'The Look of...

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  Angelina Jolie Brings Compassion and Profound Understanding to 'Maria'

  Directed by Pablo Larraín

  PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2024

  'Maria' begins at the end, with the death of Maria Callas in her Paris apartment. The great soprano passed away in 1977, less than three...