Articles by Matthew Ritchie

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  X-Men: Apocalypse

  Directed by Bryan Singer

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2016

  X-Men: Apocalypse finds the McAvoy-era X-Men facing their deadliest foe yet in Apocalypse, a super villain from ancient times who's seeming...

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  Angry Birds

  Directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2016

  How do you turn a video game with no real narrative and characters that are known more commonly by their colours than actual names into a m...

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  Nowhere With You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, the Emergency and Thrush Hermit

  By Josh O'Kane

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2016

  Forget what the real stats say: Nova Scotia's biggest export is its people. For centuries, underemployed Maritimers have headed west in sea...

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  A Bigger Splash

  Directed by Luca Guadagnino

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2016

  Before work began on Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino's latest movie, A Bigger Splash, loosely based upon Jacques Deray's 1969 romantic crime...

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  The Rainbow Kid

  Directed by Kire Paputts

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2016

  The sheer size of our country has left an indelible imprint on Canadian cinema. Thanks to endless highways and huge swaths of unpopulated l...

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  The Meddler

  Directed by Lorene Scafaria

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2016

  Forget Garry Marshall's latest star-studded cinematic bastardization/capitalization of whatever holiday is in season: The Meddler is the mo...

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  I Am the Blues

  Directed by Daniel Cross

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2016

  The history of the blues is filled with legends, both real (pioneer Robert Johnson) and fictional (his trip down to the crossroads to sell...

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  Aim for the Roses

  Directed by John Bolton

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2016

  In 1976, Canadian daredevil Ken Carter decided to do the impossible: drive a rocket-powered car off a concrete ramp and sail across the St....