Folk from the heart
Ontario folk artist Jon Brooks is playing at the Blacksheep Inn on Sept. 24 (Photo Provided)
NAC program celebrates a ‘rush’ed decade
The National Arts Centre offers discounted tickets for students registered in the Live Rush program ( Photo: Amanda To )
Take me out to the art gallery, take me out with the crowd
Jim Dow’s empty baseball stadiums fill a new exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada ( Photo Provided )
Film Review: 9
9
Shane Acker
Focus Features
Like the doll-like creations that populate 9, animator Shane Acker’s directorial debut, the film is spectacularly and imaginatively designed, but also feels incomplete and emotionally stagnant.
Expanded from Acker’s Oscar-nominated animated short, 9 is a bold and ambitious first feature.
Film reviewers arent on Cloud 9
District 9
Neil Blomkamp
Key Creatives
Last month two of the most anticipated movies of the summer came out, and both immediately received very positive reviews.
Inglorious Basterds and District 9 are both high-grossing action movies, but if given the choice as to which one should you shell out the 12 bucks for, don’t waste your money on District 9.
Last year short teasers of an alien being interrogated were shown in theatres.
