Kaitlin Fontana

Posts by Kaitlin Fontana

• Book Review – The Importance of Music to Girls and A Girl’s Guide to Rocking

  ‘Her [Greenlaw's] pieces are also, however subtly, scratching away at her own questions about girls and how we survive ourselves to become the surprisingly well-adjusted adults we suddenly realize we are…’

• Movie Review – District 9

  ‘Visually, District 9 owes a lot to other denizens of dirty sci-fi and futurism: the metal-and-dust look is right in there with the Terminator films, Firefly, Mad Max et. al…’

• Book Review – The Strain

  ‘The Strain is a bit of a Frankenstein, from its procedural heart to its fantasy and horror limbs, to its crime novel brain. To it’s detriment? At times. But mostly not…’

• List – Supergroups

  ‘… supergroups are like second marriages…’

• Review – The Killers at Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, April 24, 2009

  ‘Flowers is the glam to the rest of his band’s straight-ahead rock,’ writes Kaitlin Fontana. ‘And I would wager a bet that he knows it.’

• Retrospective – La Dolce Vita

  ‘… no one who likes La Dolce Vita, really likes it as a film…’

• Review – Fables Vol. II, War and Pieces

  ‘… That’s why the war is so disappointing…’