reviews

Mas Aya Finds New Pathways on 'Coming and Going'

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2024

Brandon Miguel Valdivia often makes music for meditation, but his sound is more reflective of firing synapses in a mercurial mind...

Medicine Singers and Friends Dissolved Sonic Barriers at Ottawa Bluesfest

SiriusXM Stage, July 10

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

After twelve hours of persistent rain from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl over the Atlantic Ocean, Medicine Singers found themselves ...

'Yintah' Urgently Honours Canada's Land Defenders

Directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

The day that LNG Canada authorized the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brimmed with...

Remi Wolf's Energetic 'Big Ideas' Is Full to the Brim

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

What's considered a "big idea"? According to Remi Wolf, "love, lust, anger, fantasies, harsh realities, vices, low lows and high highs" ...

Cassandra Jenkins Searches the Cosmos on 'My Light, My Destroyer'

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2024

There is a careful balance between wry insight and open-heartedness in Cassandra Jenkins's songs. As on her very well-received 2021 album...

The Chilling 'Longlegs' Nearly Lives Up to the Hype

Directed by Osgood Perkins

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2024

Osgood "Oz" Perkins is an odd talent in Hollywood. The son of Anthony Perkins, who famously portrayed Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's ...

Seth Rogen’s 'Sausage Party: Foodtopia' Lacks Bite

Created by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Conrad Vernon

PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2024

Armed with a stellar ensemble cast including Seth Rogan, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, Edward Norton and Natasha Rothwell, 'Sausage Party...

Future Islands Brought Out Ottawa Bluesfest's Inner Freak

River Stage, July 7

PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2024

Closing out the first weekend of the 10-day Ottawa Bluesfest with a headlining slot on the festival's second-largest stage, the Future ...