Hello and welcome to Planet S’ annual Pride Month editorial! This year’s topic: weird metaphors built around a talking, two-headed chimera from early 20th-century children’s literature. I’m pretty ...

Is it just us, or does Pride month have a bit of a bad vibe this year? Pride is usually some combination of celebration, protest and public education. And it will be again this year, but recent and ...

When I was 14, I found Blood on the Tracks in my parents’ record collection. The album blew my world open and picking a favourite is not easy. This song is a profoundly personal experience. I start to ...

Assholes. They’re everywhere. They’re in your home, at your workplace, at your gym and in your pub. Perhaps you’re one of them. Now, are they worth a documentary? Turns out, they are. Assholes have ...

Twelve years ago, Pontypool pulled the rarest of feats. It was original for a zombie movie and intrinsically Canadian (the disease was transmitted via language). Something you may not have noticed is ...

On paper there’s nothing wrong with Project Power, outside the inane title. The premise is promising (a drug gives you super powers for five minutes!), the actors are likeable and have dramatic chops ...

Every so often a critic takes a film under their wing, telling everyone they know to see it and rooting for as many people as possible to discover it. For me, one movie was Goodnight Mommy, a 2015 ...

A Remai Modern exhibition is putting coronavirus into historical context through a lens of, of course, art. An Apology, A Pill, A Ritual, A Resistance — which assembles work by multiple artists to ...

A peek inside the mind of a film critic in real time. Readers discretion is advised.

Last year at this time, we were gearing up for a summer of Canada 150 fun. This year, we’re back to a more normal summer festival calendar. But there’s still plenty of fun to be had in Saskatoon, ...

MLK/FBI (USA, 2020.Dir: Sam Pollard): We all have a generic idea of the contentious relationship between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the FBI.It’s common knowledge that the director of the Bureau, J ...