reviews
MorMor Illuminated the Dark in Montreal
Theatre Fairmount, January 25
PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2023
Hundreds of Montreal music fans pushed their way up the stairs into Theatre Fairmount on Wednesday night, eager to see MorMor (a.k.a. Seth...
Sam Smith Gets in Their Own Way on 'Gloria'
PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2023
Going into their fourth studio album, the bar for Sam Smith is pretty damn high. Exploding into popularity in 2014 with their debut contemp...
The Grotesque 'Infinity Pool' Is Worth Wading Into
Directed by Brandon Cronenberg
PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2023
It's official: this is Mia Goth's world and we're all just living in it. Ever since her feature film debut in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac...
Sundance 2023: 'birth/rebirth' Reanimates the Story of 'Frankenstein' in an Exciting New Way
Directed by Laura Moss
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2023
Frankenstein author Mary Shelley's life was marred by illness and the deaths of those closest to her, including a miscarriage and the prema...
Crosslegged Paints with a Multitude of Colours on 'Another Blue'
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2023
To open up the sparse Bandcamp liner notes to her 2015 album Speck, Keba Robinson (AKA Crosslegged) wrote: "Tried some new things." To conc...
John Cale Is Still a Force on 'MERCY'
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2023
The 17th studio album from Wales' reigning musical wizard — and his first in a decade — MERCY proves that, in his seventh decade of creatio...
Sundance 2023: 'Cat Person' Belongs in the Litter Box
Directed by Susanna Fogel
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2023
Kristen Roupenian's short story Cat Person set off a storm of online discourse in 2017 when it was originally published in The New Yorker....
Samia Swings Big on the Sweet, Striving 'Honey'
PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2023
Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia Najimy Finnerty's The Baby was one of 2020's more promising debuts, fitting in nicely with similar alter...