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Adrian Mack

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  Interview – Spoon River’s Tavis Triance

  Adrian Mack interviews the former Montrealer about his band’s new album Kingdom of the Burned, working with a hungover Cate Blanchett, and the world’s most wasted man.

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  Review – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

  Kids will love the slapstick antics, writes Adrian Mack, while parents are left to wonder, ‘Am I watching a kid’s movie or Vertigo on DMT?’

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  Review – The Princess and the Frog

  Adrian Mack takes his kid to The Princess and the Frog and wonders, can Disney ever again replicate the artistic success of The Cat From Outer Space?

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  Letter from Phil

  Vancouver photographer Bev Davies recently posted a letter from Philip K. Dick on her blog. Adrian Mack puts the 1972 missive from the author of classics of SF paranoia (which have inspired movies such as Blade Runner and Total Recall) into perspective.

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  Top 10 Things You Pretended Weren’t Happening In the Last Decade

  Feeling safe? Secure? Think The Road was ‘only a movie’?

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  Interview – Collapse Director Chris Smith

  Adrian Mack talks to Chris Smith about Michael Ruppert, the complicated subject of the director’s frightening new documentary, Collapse.

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  Review – It Might Get Loud

  A new documentary brings together the Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White. Adrian Mack reviews.

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  Review – Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

  Hey kids, get ready for severe food shortages, worldwide resource wars and the collapse of civilization. That’s the message of this Columbia/Sony CGI flick currently in theatres.

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  Review – Manic Street Preachers at the Commodore Sept. 22 09

  Part limey Adrian Mack was there, and Heinz Ruckemann got some great photos.

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  Review – Sarah McLachlan and Neil Young at Ambleside Park, Sept 12

  Adrian Mack reviews Sarah McLachlan’s Summer Sessions concert in West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park. Neil Young sits in.

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  Review – Os Mutantes at the Rio Theatre, Vancouver Sept 3 2009

  The reconstituted Tropicália giants keep the legacy alive in Vancouver. Let’s hope we all wear wizard robes when we’re 57.

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  Review – Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night NYC

  Adrian Mack shares his love of “the Jewish Elvis”. No excuses necessary – it’s Neil Diamond.

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  List – 10 Most Annoying Wankers in Rock

  Is Dave Navarro really the only man on Earth who thought Zoolander was a documentary? Is Bono a pawn of the Man? Why is Brandon Flowers?

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  MilkULTRA pt. 5

  What is this guy on? Adrian Mack continues his exploration into the connections between cults, government mind control experiments, Hollywood and the films of Gus Van Sant. And don’t even get him started on who really killed Michael Jackson…

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  Review – Up

  This really is news—Adrian Mack likes, maybe loves, the new Pixar film Up. Don’t worry, though—the nihilist in him finds something to bitch about.

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  Review – TV On the Radio at Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, May 25 2009

  The outdoor acoustics weren’t ideal for TV On the Radio’s “cathedrals of sound”, writes Adrian Mack. But the Brooklyn group’s brilliance won out in the end.

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  Review – Angels & Demons

  Adrian Mack doesn’t let his revulsion for Tom Hanks get in the way of his complete and utter disdain for Angels & Demons.

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  Review – Bat Pussy

  A heavily medicated Adrian Mack reviews a 1973 flick “held to be the worst adult movie ever.” Bat Pussy, writes Mack, “is like a Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test for chronic masturbators.”

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  Review – Monsters vs. Aliens

  ‘Monsters vs. Aliens could be retitled “Them vs. Us”, or “Freedom vs. Islamofascism”, or “Hollywood vs. Me”, but in the spirit of fair play, I’ll put aside the bitching for a moment and talk about the picture itself,’ writes Adrian Mack.

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  Review – Bruce Springsteen, Working On a Dream

  Contemplating the Boss’s latest has Adrian Mack thinking about Disney, Wal-Mart, the Superbowl, and how much he hates the title ‘Working On a Dream’

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  Review – JFK and the Unspeakable

  Adrian Mack argues that questions over the JFK assassination still matter—and writes that James Douglass’ outstanding JFK and the Unspeakable ‘offers an elegant answer.’

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  Barack Obama & Fables of the Reconstruction

  Adrian Mack looks at the intersection between pop and politics in the age of Obama, and doesn’t like what he sees.