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Hot Docs 2024: 'Fire Tower' Lacks Storytelling Spark, but the Canadian Wildness Is Stunning

Directed by Tova Krentzman

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2024

There are a slightly more than a hundred manned fire towers in Canada, each of them occupied by someone who spends six months per year in...

Six Organs of Admittance Turns Back the Clock on 'Time Is Glass'

PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2024

Most writing about Ben Chasny's long-running project as Six Organs of Admittance features an obligatory mention of David Keenan's 2003 arti...

Hovvdy Are Growing but Grounded on Their Self-Titled Album

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2024

When a band well into their career self-titles their album, you know they're trying to make some sort of statement. For Hovvdy, their fifth...

Bullion Takes Centre Stage on 'Affection'

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PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2024

Nathan Jenkins’s work as Bullion is unmistakable but easily subsumed — his burbling, ‘80s-influenced production...

Corridor's 'Mimi' Is Total Ear Candy

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2024

As the first — and to date only — Francophone band signed to Sub Pop, Corridor are ambassadors of sorts for Québécois music. It's easy to...

Justice Ditch the Clutter on 'Hyperdrama'

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2024

If you're talking about French disco-funk and you're not talking about Daft Punk, you're probably talking about Justice. Few have challenge...

Zendaya Serves and Slays in 'Challengers'

Directed by Luca Guadagnino

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2024

"You don't know what tennis is... It's a relationship," Zendaya's Tashi says with gusto when she first meets fellow tennis players — and be...

Hot Docs 2024: 'Secret Mall Apartment' Turns a Childlike Fantasy into a Commentary on Capitalism

Directed by Jeremy Workman

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2024

"People live in a secret apartment in the mall" is a perfect elevator pitch — both a potent metaphor for the struggle of living under...