Reviews

In this section, find reviews of assorted things.

Brit TV Spotlight: Skins

We wanted to do more television coverage, and since you already know what's happening on Parks and Rec, it seems to make more sense to do some spotlights on British TV shows that you might not have seen yet. In this first one, our resident British TV expert Cameron Maitland tackles Skins.

Hopefully we won't run out of shows to cover for a while. Isn't Britain the place where they only have one or two channels?

Irrelevant Movie Review: Gigantic

When we say that this is an irrelevant movie review, do we mean that the review is irrelevant since it came out a long time ago and it doesn’t make sense to review it now? Or do we mean that the movie is not relevant to anything that anyone has ever felt or experienced in the real world? You decide! Starring that guy from Little Miss Sunshine.


Meg and Jeph's Late Reviews: Whatcha Say and More!

Another Meg and Jeph's Late Reviews entry. Three album reviews. And they're not even that late. Sure, most magazine's review things when they come out, or shortly before. But two of these albums came out in the last two weeks. That's not bad for this column. The "Whatcha Say" single and EP both came out a while ago, but it's new to these guys.



Meg and Jeph's Late Reviews: Things to do in Seattle When You’re Old

You wouldn't know, because they've only done their review once in this magazine, but usually Meg and Jeph review albums. This time is different though, because they went to Seattle in August, and they liked it so much that they went back again this month. Eventually, they got around to writing a review of their trips. So now it's here in this edition of Meg and Jeph's Late Reviews.

Enjoy!

You figure it out!

Michael Hingston was once my editor. Because of his inhumanly accurate eye for grammatical error, I was quite eager to get a chance to edit his work in my publication. I put on my monocle and closely considered every word and punctuation mark in this review, but ultimately found nothing to edit. If there are any problems here, they are probably things that I accidentally changed when I was putting it up on the site.

Hingston does a lot of reviews and interviews for other publications as well, so if you like this, check out the link to his blog at the bottom of the page.

Sincerely,

Jeph Wager

Meg and Jeph's Late Reviews: SkinnySongs and More!

We used to write this exact same column for another publication. We were then fired from that publication for... well, we don’t actually know why we were fired, but we do know that we stopped receiving albums to review, and then all communications with that mysterious, unnamed publication ceased. But we still love that publication and wish them the best! And we also hope they don’t sue us, because this column wasn’t really our idea in the first place....



Final VIFF REVIEW: Tetro

At seventy years old, Francis Ford Coppola could really be doing anything. If he was at all comparable to any of the seventy year old men we know, he would be spending the rest of his days mall-walking, drinking a lot of refillable McDonalds coffee, and carrying a surplus of mixed seeds to feed the squirrels....

(Click the title to read the rest of the review)

VIFF REVIEW: My Tehran for Sale

Since every synopsis that I could find of Granaz Moussavi’s My Tehran for Sale mentioned that it featured scenes of underground raves, I expected that this film would largely be about raves and partying in Iran. Knowing that movies about raves are notoriously horrible, I was curious to see if this was different in Iranian cinema.... (Click title for more of this review)

VIFF REVIEW: Nang Mai (Nymph)

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: if there is one thing missing in the tired genre of modern failed marriage dramas, it has got to be the serious lack of scorned lovers having intimate affairs with trees. In his latest film, Nymph, Thai director, Pen-ek Ratanaruang skilfully illustrates his understanding of this dilemma in contemporary filmmaking and delivers with a very strange portrait of a relationship gone wrong. Opening with a long and mysterious single-shot take, Ratanaruang subtly introduces the audience to a supernatural element residing in a forest. Nothing weird about that. However, as the film progresses, the director’s treatment of a couple struggling to keep their relationship afloat seemed to, at times, come across as more of a comedy than was intended. Not that there is anything inherently funny about leaving your cheating wife for an extremely sensual tree that occasionally takes human shape. Love comes in many forms. A friend of mine told me that it was a cultural thing and that I probably couldn’t understand it. I guess he is right.
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