Articles by Mike Sauve
Donovan's Echo
Jim Cliffe
PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2012
This is the type of movie that with your typical audience watching (picture a family, a group of teenagers or two Satanists trying to unwin...
Jim Cuddy / Doug Paisley
Massey Hall, Toronto ON February 14
PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2012
Despite being a country rock institution whose Blue Rodeo are soon to be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Jim Cuddy can still...
Whitney Rose
Cameron House, Toronto ON January 31
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2012
A diminutive girl in a plain white dress takes the stage, her parlour-sized guitar looking disproportionately large. She greets the audienc...
Young Adult
Jason Reitman
PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2011
Beneath the landslide of positive Juno reviews were buried murmurs that the script wasn't very well-written and much of the film would have...
In Time
Andrew Niccol
PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2011
I set out for a nice diversionary sci-fi flick and somehow wound up at the liberal Hollywood branch of the Occupy movement. While there's a...
Jack Marks
Dakota Tavern, Toronto ON July 15
PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2011
Isn't it vulgar to call a young singer-songwriter Dylanesque? Here I'm looking at you, proselytizers of Conor Oberst. But with Jack Marks,...
Enter the Void
Gaspar Noé
PUBLISHED Dec 30, 2010
I sometimes have the misfortune of working with a small-time Toronto jazz critic. He scoffs at nearly everything I say. When I told him I'd...
The Extra Man
Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini
PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2010
Jonathan Ames should require little or no introduction. He is one of the three "New York Jonathans," the other two being (in order of liter...