Arts

A Christmas Carol
Robert Zemeckis
Walt Disney Pictures

4/5 stars

A Christmas Carol centres on the visitation of three spirits to the bitterly petulant, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge.  The spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come convince him through various visions to live his life to the fullest and become an amiable patriarch.

“Jingle All the Way . . . because a movie with Sinbad and Schwarzenegger has to be good.” -Alex Sirois

Before a gallery-goer hangs a black and white print of a penguin with a human penis.

“Polar Night of the Ordinary Penguin” is one of the many pieces in the three exhibits currently on display at Carleton University’s Art Gallery (CUAG) that are far from ordinary.

Edward Burtynsky: China Photographs, “Inuit Piqutingit/What Belongs to the Inuit”: Videos and Films by Igloolik Isuma Productions, and Revolutionary Acts: Fifty years of Printmaking in Cuba are on display at CUAG until Feb 7.

The Great Misdirect
Between the Buried and Me
Victory Records

4/5 stars

I am by no means a metalhead. I’ll listen to the odd song a friend shows me, but it’s a rarity to find me headbanging alone. For this reason I review Between the Buried and Me’s new record with a grain of salt.

Mot Dit editors would like you to judge their book by its cover.

For the fourth issue of Carleton’s Francophone literary magazine, Morgan Faulkner, one of the founding editors, and her team broke with their tradition of putting (painted art?) on the cover and opted instead for a photograph of a woman painted with bright colours to catch the eye of potential readers.

“I think this is our best issue yet,” she said.