Articles by Patrick Lejtenyi

Ska-Boom and Ska-Bust

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Something has changed in the ska world. Ska shows, with attendance in the thousands, local bar ska nights and even television ads with ska...

The Widow of St. Pierre

Patrice Leconte

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Set in the remote colonial French island outpost of St. Pierre, off the coast of Newfoundland, in the mid-19th century, Patrice Leconte's s...

Shrek

Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

As far as the average fantasy tale of good guy versus bad guy, ugly outcast versus beautiful rich creep, "Shrek" at least is better than "A...

The Forsaken

Joe Cardone

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

The long decline of the vampire/teen slasher/titty flick has another lamentable chapter in "The Forsaken," an utterly predictable, laughabl...

Eyes for Telescopes

Please Survive

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

Eyes for Telescopes are a bluesy, folksy and very pop-oriented Charlottetown group, and yet another item Canada has been overlooking. Inclu...

Millencolin

No Cigar

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

Swedish punk rock heroes Millencolin offer up a tasty little EP that borrows heavily from their Pennybridge Pioneers album - of the eight t...

Proclaimers

Persevere

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

After seven years, the Scottish twins that shamelessly reinvented the sappy song you weren't ashamed to like have come back with a long-awa...

Quitters

Second Album

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

Out of Rochester, NY, come the Quitters, pretenders to the snot-punk garage throne. Whiny, bratty, funny and sarcastic, the Quitters tend t...