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Most Valuable Playersnew
The captivating documentary Junior portrays a season in the life of a Baie-Comeau hockey team.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Dance Dance Revolutionnew
Filmmaker Ian Iqbal Rashid never thought he’d end up directing How She Move. The London-based director, whose debut feature, Touch of Pink, is a gay romcom that was a hit at Sundance in 2004.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: How She Move, Ian Iqbal Rashid
Vocal Heroesnew
Popular music has always had a place for a cappella tunes by groups like Take 6 and Manhattan Transfer, but the New York-based septet Naturally 7 has taken the style to another level.
Montreal Mirror |
Gerald Dee |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Naturally 7
The Young and the Fecklessnew
Paris/London trio the Teenagers act their age, again.
Montreal Mirror |
Jack Oatmon |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Teenagers
The Shape of Things That Camenew
With a fancy for a fantastical past, Daedelus is West Coast hip-hop’s odd man out and about.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Daedelus
Life After Turcotnew
The grandiose swoop and curves of Montreal’s most iconic interchange will make way for an entirely new structure, its layers of flyovers and elevated highways replaced by a new structure that hugs the ground, surrounded by berms and embankments.
Montreal Mirror |
Christopher DeWolf |
01-31-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Joe Balass Goes Back to Iraqnew
The filmmaker revisits a vanished Jewish community in Baghdad Twist.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
01-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Baghdad Twist, Joe Balass
Phil Fish Designs His Games the Indie Waynew
The former Ubisoft Montreal designer is part of a growing wave of independent game makers.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
01-04-2008 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Dillinger Escape Plan Break Bones, Not Stringsnew
All the anger and musical complexity with which the New Jersey band almost single-handedly changed the face of metal on 1999's Calculating Infinity returns, but that album sounds a petulant tantrum compared to the teeth-gnashing fury they now bring to the table.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dillinger Escape Plan, Ire Works
2007's Page Turnersnew
Ten great reads from the past 12 months.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-21-2007 |
Books
Settle the Scorenew
Clément Virgo and Rossif Sutherland on Poor Boy’s Game, their Halifax-set story of boxing, violence and racial tension.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Clément Virgo, Poor Boy’s Game
Feel the Painnew
The drugs don't work for Hayden Christensen in the lousy thriller Awake.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Awake, Joby Harold
Old Schoolnew
The Cemetery Club focuses on the colourful characters in an Israeli seniors' learning group
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Tali Shemesh, The Cemetery Club
Alex Ross Brings the Noisenew
Ross travels from the golden age of Strauss, Mahler and Wagner, through the mid-century struggles of composers -- American, European, black and white, classical, jazz and pretty much everything else.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Fun of the Frenchnew
Xavier Caféïne doesn’t believe in computers or Tommy Lee, he just believes in francophonie.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gisèle, Xavier Caféïne
