Articles by Patrick Lejtenyi
Flashing Lights Come From the Ground Up
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
For a band that has built up a reputation built on the energy and strength of their live shows, the Flashing Lights' latest offering may pr...
Just Visiting
Jean-Marie Gaubert
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
As madcap time-travel goofball comedies go, "Just Visiting" isn't really worse than any of the others. The plot is formulaic, the script fa...
Skinny Ties and Scooters
Retrofitting the Mods
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
The last fight I got into was ten years ago, outside Montreal's Stanley Pub. I was 16 years old, alone and wearing my three-button suit, pa...
Planet Smashers
Grown Ups
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Even though the Planet Smashers continue to act like juvenile drunks, don't start thinking they haven't grown up, at least a little. The Mo...
The Gruesomes
Back from the Grave
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
The Gruesomes were watching Jeopardy when I called. It struck me as ridiculously commonplace - what else would they be doing? After all, si...
Pollock
Ed Harris
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Ed Harris's directorial debut about famed abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock is a competent and ambitious bio-pic about post-war...
How To Kill Your Neighbors Dog Michael Kalesnikoff
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Peter McGowen (Kenneth Branagh) is a famous Los Angeles playwright with a lot of problems. He is struggling to overcome a series of flops w...
Petit Asylum
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
This third collaboration between filmmaker Petit and novelist Sinclair is a strange pseudo-documentary set against a near future in which a...