Critics At Large

There was always a sly self-deprecation and a sweet sensuality in pianist Fats Domino's voice which added great warmth and emotiona...

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (photo by Mary Ellen Matthews) I didn’t realize how much I had taken for granted my love of Tom Pet...

Celebrating birthdays is complicated enough when you're discussing people, let alone when you start talking about a nation. For a f...

In the last couple of months, like many viewers, I've been watching David Lynch's return and resurrection of Twin Peaks . Wit...

If there was one songwriter in rock 'n roll who had an endless gift for memorable (and enjoyable) anthems it was Chuck Berry, who di...

Brian De Palma's Home Movies is a 1979 low-budget independent film made with the help of his film class at Sarah Lawrence as a han...

Andrew Lincoln in AMC's The Walking Dead . I've grown to trust fan culture less and less as the years go on. There's a ...

Comedian Lenny Bruce, who died fifty years ago, once wrote, "People should be taught what is, not what should be. All my humour is b...

Looking as androgynous and funky as Little Richard in Jimi Hendrix 's duds, Prince wrote music that was sexually charged, playful...

It's not a surprising irony in the late Sixties and early Seventies, just as many Americans were feeling like unwitting spiritual ex...

This story will only be relevant to Canadians. Back in June 1979, Conservative leader Joe Clark had just become Prime Minister and unsea...

In the recent issue of Pitchfork , Dhani Harrison describes a conversation he had with his late father about his guitar playing. “My fa...

Brett Morgen's new picture, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (which showed at the Toronto Hot Docs Festival and premieres in a few days ...

In Steven Knight's Locke (2014), which recently came out on DVD and Blu-ray, Tom Hardy plays Ivan Locke, a construction forem...

It would be tempting to call Hampton Sides'  Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American H...

On Wednesday morning, the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo was attacked by three masked gunmen who stormed the building and ...

Singer Joe Cocker, who sadly died over the holidays at 70 after a battle with lung cancer, could get to the bottom of heartache in a so...

A couple of years ago, I started included a few samplings from my Facebook page, which I've been treating as an ongoing dialogue wit...

A couple of years ago, I started included a few samplings from my Facebook page, which I've been treating as an ongoing dialogue ...

Late last year, I included a few samplings from my Facebook page, which I've been treating as an ongoing dialogue with friends ab...