Fall 2023 Issue

Paul Giamatti Is a Delightful Payne in 'The Holdovers'

Directed by Alexander Payne

PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

There was a lot of hype about The Holdovers coming out of the Venice Film Festival, especially for Paul Giamatti's performance as the curmu...

Exclaim! Comics: What Could Be Spookier Than Condo Developers?

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2023

Spooky season is here, and it's brought with it the scariest thing imaginable for Canadian city-dwellers: condo development! Elsewhere on...

Sampha Follows His Intuition to a "Magical Space"

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2023

On "Plastic 100°C," the opening track of Sampha's 2017 debut album, Process, the British singer-songwriter and producer was drifting off to...

Metric Turned a Church into a Studio and Indulged Their Wickedest Musical Whims

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2023

Impulse purchases were all the rage in 2020. Some people got dogs, others bought cottages. Metric bought a church in small-town Ontario and...

​TOBi Finds Strength in Vulnerability

PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2023

She hadn't yet heard the song. But when TOBi pressed play, it blew her mind. The Toronto rapper (known for hits like "Made Me Everything"...

These Directors Failed to Pitch Spike Lee — but Succeeded in Pushing Canadian Filmmaking Forward

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2023

Individually, directors Kelly Fyffe-Marshall and Sasha Leigh Henry, along with producers Tamar Bird and Iva Golubovic, are some of Canada's...

Jeremy Dutcher Balances Beauty and Pain

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2023

If you stop by the ground floor of the Killarney Lake Lodge in Wolastokuk (Fredericton, NB), you'll find a class of 12 students. Aged three...

Wilco Are Still Here Because They "Were Willing to Risk Things"

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2023

"It's all about connection," Jeff Tweedy says of his multifaceted career. This is evident in the intimate books he has penned, as well as...