Bullet holes and budget rock: Talking shop with Smoke Eaters January 26, 2017January 31, 2017 Michelle Yun 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 January 12, 2017January 31, 2017 Mark McInnes 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 January 5, 2017 Maureen Chow 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 the...
Desert trippin’: Neil Young gets political in California December 15, 2016December 15, 2016 Anna Dodd 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 December 15, 2016December 15, 2016 The Martlet 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 December 15, 2016December 14, 2016 Fraser Hamilton 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 December 15, 2016December 14, 2016 Emmett Robinson Smith 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 December 15, 2016December 14, 2016 Myles Sauer “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 Mackenzie’s...
The Martlet’s favourite music of 2016 December 15, 2016December 14, 2016 The Martlet 2016 was a huge year for music, with some of hip-hop and R&B’s biggest names dropping albums that changed the game, including Beyoncé and Kanye West. For that reason, our...
I used to hate Dane Cook, and now I sort of don’t December 5, 2016 Kaitlyn Kokoska Harmful if swallowed Let me preface this by saying that I haven’t seen a lot of stand-up comedy. I generally avoid all of the stand-up specials on Netflix because a person...
