Articles by James Keast

Dawson City Music Festival

Dawson City, Yukon July 15 - 17

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2011

First Nations elders danced with African nomads. Rich Aucoin had four-year-old kids screaming "We are not dead! We are undead!" exactly 12...

True Grit [Blu-Ray]

Joel and Ethan Coen

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2011

The Coen brothers' first western ― an adaptation of Charles Portis's acclaimed novel, which was also the basis of the late '60s John...

X-Men: First Class

Matthew Vaughn

PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2011

X-Men: First Class is a reboot in a superhero movie culture that's full of them (see: Hulks, Spider-Men), but rather than simply restarting...

Canada's Indie Rock Foundation

PUBLISHED May 29, 2011

Our national music scene has enjoyed international superstar status for more than a decade, but Have Not Been the Same ― originally p...

And Everything Is Going Fine

Steven Soderbergh

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2011

Spalding Gray could never be accused of not speaking up. The sometimes actor turned his life into a series of acclaimed monologues, such as...

True Grit

Joel and Ethan Coen

PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2010

A tough-minded, morally ambiguous meditation on justice makes True Grit a terrific movie, but the breakout performance by teenager Hailee S...

Easy A [Blu-Ray]

Will Gluck

PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2010

Shoving aside tween comedies and Harry Potter sequels, Easy A wants a seat at the Mean Girls table ― not literally, but in the sense...

Inception [Blu-Ray]

Christopher Nolan

PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2010

On the home offering of Chris Nolan's dreamy Inception, the acclaimed blockbuster director (The Dark Night) is happy to pull back the curta...