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Bullet holes and budget rock: Talking shop with Smoke Eaters
Fresh off their summer tour, Victoria-based indie rock group Smoke Eaters are keeping themselves busy. Bonnybrook Road, their latest full-length album, is nostalgic and summery, a collection of feel-good songs with…Portrayal of fragile masculinity makes ‘Moonlight’ mandatory viewing
Masculinity is a performance, and especially in the pressure cooker realities of rough communities, it can be deeply toxic and harmful. Stand, walk, run a certain way, don’t make certain…‘The Eagle Huntress’ is an uplifting tale for the new year
Culturally enriching, visually captivating, and chock-full of feel-good scenes, Otto Bell’s first feature-length documentary The Eagle Huntress is the perfect film to kickstart the new year at UVic’s Cinecenta. For…Desert trippin’: Neil Young gets political in California
It’s Saturday night and he walks on stage in a ratty T-shirt that reads “Water Is Life” with some gnarly hair sticking out of his old cowboy hat. Neil Young…The Martlet’s favourite films of 2016
The Martlet didn’t see quite as many films as we’d like to this year, and many of the ones we did were, frankly, pretty underwhelming. (Just ask Cormac.) But that’s…The Martlet’s best television of 2016
With disasters occurring almost every week and an angry, screaming tangerine in a suit making headlines, 2016 might be one of the worst years ever. But throughout this difficult year,…‘Starboy’ shoots for the stars but misses the mark
He’s back, ladies and gentlemen. The Weeknd, or should I say Starboy, has swooped from his Toronto high-rise and laid his new album, Starboy, at our collective doorsteps, its cover…‘Hell or High Water’ is a thoughtful Western for the modern era
“Patience is a virtue that I don’t possess, and I can’t deny that heaven lies beneath a cotton dress.” So sings Ray Wylie Hubbard over the opening titles of David…Our Digital Print Issue
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