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Jimmie Kilpatrick's 'Jimmie' Is a Sweet, Scrappy Conversation with an Old Friend

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PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2025

Listening to Shotgun Jimmie has always felt like a conversation with a particularly witty, articulate friend — a perfect combination of...

'Drop' Scales the Heights of B Movies

Directed by Christopher Landon

PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2025

B movies (and sometimes even C movies) can often deliver the most fun and entertaining experiences for audiences. What these films typically...

Ribbon Skirt's 'Bite Down' Is Irresistible Indigenous Futurism

PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2025

"They want 2000s Buffy Marie / They want my status, but they're getting my teeth," Tashiina Buswa intones, talk-singing so deadpan you can...

'Warfare' Is a Visceral Challenge to Consider the Horrors of War

Directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland

PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2025

Time has not been kind to the Iraq War — a conflict based on a lie about "weapons of mass destruction," resulting in a devastating death to...

Goldie Boutilier's Sold-Out Toronto Show Marked the Arrival of an Icon

The Horseshoe Tavern, April 9

PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2025

Nova Scotia's Goldie Boutilier set the Horseshoe Tavern ablaze last night, with her first-ever sold-out show right here in Toronto marking...

Bon Iver Steps Toward the Light on 'SABLE, fABLE'

PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2025

Many of us fans of Bon Iver's era defining 2008 album 'For Emma, Forever Ago' eagerly awaited what sounded like a return to form with the...

Underdog Music Doc 'Harkness' Loses Sight of Its Own Purpose

Directed by Maria Markina

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2025

There's a very fine line between obsession and determination. Maria Markina stretches this theme to its limit in her film 'Harkness,' an...

'One to One: John & Yoko' Offers a Fresh Take on the Lennons' Activism

Directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2025

"I'm not about to get myself shot. But I'm still an artist, a revolutionary artist." — John LennonIn the early 1970s, John Lennon and Yoko...