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Winnipeg Folk Fest Interview & Performance: Two Crows for Comfort
Posted by: Paul Little • December 22, 2025 @ 1:43pm
Two Crows for Comfort are a Manitoba folk duo (with roots and country leanings) who spend a good chunk of their year touring around North America with their dog in tow. The incredible harmonies and storytelling from this real-life couple are up there with some of the best duos making their style of music anywhere on the planet.
Review: The Saddest Music in the World
Posted by: Mark McLeod • April 30, 2004 @ 11:59am
The year is 1930 and the world is in the middle of The Great Depression. Many people have returned from the war to see their jobs eliminated and a time of great sadness is upon them. Alcohol has been outlawed in the United States and many Americans are travelling north of the border to Canada to get a taste of that sweet brew.
Review: The Saddest Music in the World
Posted by: Timo Puolitaipale • April 30, 2004 @ 11:59am
The Saddest Music in the World, adapted from a screenplay by Booker Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro, takes us back to Winnipeg in 1933. The depression has gripped Winnipeg, but local beer baroness and amputee Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) launches a contest with which to catch the imagination of the world. She sets up a competition to determine who plays the saddest music ever.
Jenna Rink is just your ordinary 13-year-old girl. She looks awkward and geeky with her brace face and not-yet-filled-out body that leaves her on the outside of the popular "Six Chicks", a group of six drop dead gorgeous teenage females. Jenna lives next door to her best friend Matt, a fellow outcast and school photographer.
I have thought long and hard to how I was going to write this review. How does a critic review the second half of a larger movie? Instead, I decided to review the whole film while keeping in mind to what I gave the first entry in the series.
For me the first film was an opus to Quentin Tarantino from Quentin Tarantino.
WARNING: This review may contain spoilers that relate to Kill Bill Volume I.
When we last left The Bride (Uma Thurman) she was well on her way to her ultimate destination after knocking off the first two members on her hit list of Viper Death Squad Assassins, Vernita Green (Vivica Fox) and O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) â€" a task that took her to Japan and the world famous S
The Alamo has always been as one of the most classic legends of American history. The Alamo symbolized an epic struggle, desperate realization of horror, and the legendary men who fell to an onslaught of Mexican soldiers numbering in the thousands.
They say you can't go home again, but that's just what Chris Vaughn (The Rock) wants to do. After an 8-year stint in the army, Chris has decided to head home to the small mountain town he grew up in and start work at the local mill. Upon his return, he finds that the mill has been shut down by his old friend who took over ownership when his parents passed away.
Back in 1973, the true story of a Southern sheriff named Buford Pusser â€" played by Joe Don Baker â€" who battled the odds with his pickup truck and a hunk of wood made audiences stand up and cheer.
Comic writer and creator Mike Mignola has always had a flair for the dark, mysterious, and heavily moody. His artistic style renders his creations and drawings often in heavy black backgrounds where only portions of their faces are seen. Mignola's art style was always more about the words than the pictures when creating a comic.
Lars Von Trier's last film, Dancer in the Dark, starring Bjork and Catherine Deneuve was THE film studies movie of the year. I'll bet there wasn't a film program in the world that didn't show this film in at least one class. Will Dogville live up to this? Well, in my first class EVER at Carleton University, I was talking about it with a fellow classmate.
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