Articles by Matthew Ritchie

Wild

Jean-Marc Vallée

PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2014

The strength of Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée's award-winning film the Dallas Buyers Club was ultimately its universal depiction of a...

Foxcatcher

Bennett Miller

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2014

On the surface, Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher is pure Oscar-bait. The formula: take a regularly Emmy-snubbed comedic actor (Steve Carell) and...

CTZNSHP

"Low Lives"

PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2014

Last we heard from Montreal-based throwback fuzz rockers CTZNSHP, they were working on a followup to their 2014 LP Doom Love with the Besna...

The New Pornographers Announce 2015 Canadian Tour Dates

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2014

In case you couldn't catch Vancouver indie rock outfit the New Pornographers in concert at the Toronto edition of Riot Fest, Halifax's Sand...

Interstellar

Christopher Nolan

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2014

Upon its arrival in the winter of 1968, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey captivated moviegoers with its ingenuity and thematically r...

Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story

By Rick Bragg

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2014

For a brief moment in time, it seemed as if Jerry Lee Lewis — the piano prodigy who first broke in the 1950s — would overtake E...

Predestination

Spierig Brothers

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2014

Films about time travel are some of the trickiest ones to create as far as sci-fi subgenres are concerned — it's not so much about th...

Time Lapse

Bradley King

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2014

You don't fuck with time. That's the philosophical takeaway - an idea espoused time and time again by one of the lead characters - in Bradl...