Results tagged “themountain”

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the Oscars this morning. Canada done good.

Sarah Polley is having a kickass month as her debut directorial feature, Away From Her, racks up the accolades. On Sunday, the Los Angeles film critics gave Polley a New Generation Award for up-and-coming directors. Then, on Monday, the New York film critics felt Away From Her was 2007's Best First Film. In addition, earlier this month Polley was named one of the "50 Smartest People in Hollywood" by Entertainment Weekly. She's the youngest...

A day late this week, but when you see the crazy number of new shows recently announced, you’ll understand why. With so much variety, there should be something for everyone coming up in the next month or so. Due to the large number of show listings, there will be no links this week (hey, it takes a LONG time to link up this stuff, my friends).

. The lyrical mastermind behind Okkervil River (named for a short story by Leo Tolstoy's granddaughter - told you they were literate) is Will Sheff, who also gives Okkervil its rich, plaintive, emotion-drenched voice.

For a long time, Torontoist used our Mixtape series to nitpick the music issues of the week and offer relevant music in the very same week. An enormous undertaking, we know. But along the way, we got so caught up in making Mixtapes, that we actually became a Mixtape ourselves. Looking back, posting The Bravery and Louis X highlighted the need to relax our weekly download hijinx, or at least up our quality control. But soon the word 'relax' morphed into 'forget.' And now we find ourselves out of the Mixtape business altogether.

. Critical praise has been effusive for the album, which steps away from the storytelling fictions of John Darnielle's earlier work for a more autobiographical account of an abusive childhood, though dressed up in amazing lyricism and musical arrangements.

, given to Torontoist for review, contains scant amounts of the aforementioned ingredients. Not to say this is the Vince Carter of Mountain Goats albums - it's a good album and will receive a generous mark in our review - but there is a certain weirdness that plagues Mr Darnielle's most emotional output.