VIFF Review: Paterson

To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. Paterson is an odd Jarmuschian stream of consciousness with an unmistakable feel for the ordinary. A few days in the life of bus driver Paterson (played timidly and earnestly by Adam Driver), in the city of…

Retro-Graded Games: ‘Dark Souls’ Five Years Later

  It’s hard to believe it’s already been half a decade since our first visits to Lordran during the last days of the Age of Fire. 60 months since we first endured the sadism of game director Hidetaka Miyazaki, and…

TV Review: How to Get Away with Murder 3×01 “We’re Good People Now”

Welcome to our newest method of reviewing/recapping season three of How to Get Away with Murder where I’ll be joined by film writer Alana Jane Chase in discussing (mainly reacting to) the latest episodes live. The discussion has been edited for…

Movie Review: The Sea of Trees

The Cannes Film Festival has been known to make or break films and The Sea of Trees became one of its biggest victims. Met with uproarious boos, it is the lowest-scoring Cannes entry in over a decade. Talk about harsh. The prestigious picture is now…

Blog Tour and Giveaway: Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

Participating in blog tours has become one of my favourite things to do this summer. This time around I joined the book tour for Jay Kristoff’s newest novel “Nevernight” hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. I’ve only reached midway through this…

Bottlerock Napa Valley Music Festival 2016 Recap

BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival took place at the Napa Expo during Memorial Day weekend, May 27 – 29, 2016. I attended Saturday on behalf of The Young Folks and experienced music, food and good vibes all around. Having been…

Album Review: Prince – “HITnRUN Phase Two”

Prince always had a difficult relationship with the Internet. One minute he loved it enough to post whole albums on it, the next he’d despise it so much that he’d release a whole album only as a cover mount on…