The Assassin
The new film The Assassin puts a clever, more artful spin on the concept of the wuxia-martial arts film courtesy of art house master Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Sarah reviewed this well-executed film for Fightland.
Read the full review over at Fightland by going here.
Filed under Films, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
The Walk
There’s a thing going on right now where Hollywood isn’t just churning out remakes and franchise flicks, it’s also mining the world of documentary filmmaking in order to create new feature films.
Sarah took a closer look at one such example, Robert Zemeckis’ new IMAX film The Walk, to parse whether or not this is a good thing.
To read her full piece head over to Consequence Of Sound by clicking here.
Filed under Films, Shameless Promotion
Jazz Cartier
Drake isn’t the only rapper with a claim to Toronto.
Jazz Cartier, whose excellent debut album Marauding In Paradise is filled with Toronto-isms, is doing a mighty good job of his own to romanticize the 6.
I spoke to him for SOCAN’s Words + Music magazine about the city and how he created his unique cut ‘n’ paste songs.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Blue Rodeo
A few days before the Canadian federal election Sarah was commissioned to find a bunch of anti-Stephen Harper songs.
It wasn’t difficult.
After all, relatively mainstream acts like Blue Rodeo and Yukon Blonde had weighed in with their own related protest tunes.
Anyway, we’re pretty sure this list is the main reason why Harper lost to Justin Trudeau in the election.
To read the full list head over to Paste by going here.
Filed under Music, Politics, Shameless Promotion
Pumpkins, non-musical
We here at Risky Fuel are masters at the dark art known as the listicle.
Want proof? How about “8 Songs About Pumpkins”?
Sarah wrote this one for Paste Magazine.
To see the full list go here.
Filed under Food, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 