Although the music of 1990’s alternative rock icons The Smashing Pumpkins may be dour, the atmosphere inside Scotiabank Arena was anything but. Celebrating the 27th anniversary of their seminal 1995 double-album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Billy Corgan and…
One of the details that The Fabelmens gets just right is how family and home shapes one’s journey from adolescence and beyond. The movie is about the Fabelmans, computer engineer Burt and former concert pianist Mitzi (Paul Dano and Michelle…
Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke walked the red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall for the TIFF premiere of their film Raymond & Ray, in which they play long-estranged half-brothers who reunite to bury their father. By all accounts, director Rodrigo…
Typically, the two basic approaches to obesity in cinema are to regard it as tragic or comic. In director Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, he has somehow avoided both. And unfortunately, therein lays its fatal flaw. Here’s a movie with the…
Legendary director Steven Spielberg along with his cast, including Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, and Paul Dano, walked the red carpet ahead of the The Fabelmans world premiere during TIFF 2022. The coming-of-age picture tells the story of a young man…
When it comes to crafting mystery with smart hooks, look no further than Welsh-born Cate Le Bon. Now six albums into her career, she belongs to an idiosyncratic group of pop alchemists, strong on visuals with a knack for infectious,…
As a band, Lime Cordiale is pure theatricality. Formed by brothers Louis and Oli Leimbach, the Australian duo inhabit colourful western “nudie” suits and strong music chops, all while performing songs with clever twists. At Toronto’s Velvet Underground, the audience…
The current tour by Alanis Morissette has been characterized as a Jagged Little Pill 25th anniversary tour. Following an intimate opening montage of home movies and MTV clips, the Ottawa-born singer kept the sold-out crowd on their feet with the likes…
When social media platform Facebook announced its rebranding into Meta last year, Mark Zuckerberg brought the concept of the Metaverse to light, exciting users with the prospect of finally entering virtual reality. The Metaverse is designed to be a virtual…
Led by vocalist Baden Donegal, Australia’s Ocean Alley‘s sound leaves you torn between sweet vocals and scorching musicianship. At Toronto’s Opera House, the band began with ‘Tombstone’, a searing track from their latest LP Lonely Diamond. From there they continued with a…