The Uniter

Critipeg: ‘We are not ruined’

Patrick Harney – April 7, 2022

In an interview for Ric Burns’ New York (1999), urban theorist Marshall Berman discusses the role of graffiti and hip-hop in 1970 and 1980s New York. Berman refers to these forms of expression as proverbial rainbows cutting through New York’s then bleak and derelict landscapes.

Critipeg: Typical Toewsian tropes

Charlie Morin (Features editor) – March 24, 2022

It’s fitting that a narrative about walking along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers would be published in early February, when the frozen river trail is abuzz with patrons. It is, after all, one of the most brag-worthy facts about Winnipeg, unimaginable to audiences from just about any other climate – which happens to be a young Parisian man in The Way She Closed the Door.

Critipeg: Nationtime

Armande Martine (Features reporter) – March 3, 2022

Plays until March 11 on Cinematheque At Home

Critipeg: Karen Dalton: In My Own Time

Armande Martine (Features reporter) – February 10, 2022

Streaming on Cinematheque at Home until March 13

Critipeg: Red Rocket

Thomas Pashko (Managing editor) – January 27, 2022

Plays at Cinematheque Feb. 4 to 17

Critipeg: The House

Thomas Pashko (Managing editor) – January 20, 2022

Streaming now on Netflix

Critipeg: About Endlessness

Thomas Pashko (Managing editor) – January 13, 2022

Plays at Cinematheque Jan. 14, 16 and 25

Critipeg: The Harder They Fall

Keesha Harewood – November 25, 2021

Jeymes Samuel’s American Revisionist Western The Harder They Fall follows outlaw Nat Love and his entourage as he seeks revenge on the man who killed his family.

Critipeg: Ste. Anne

Keesha Harewood – November 18, 2021

Plays at Cinematheque until Nov. 23

Sex Education season 3

Charlie Morin (Features editor) – November 12, 2021

Streaming on Netflix

Critipeg: Midnight Mass

Keesha Harewood – October 21, 2021

“Book I: Genesis,” available on Netflix

Critipeg: Burst City

Keesha Harewood – October 7, 2021

Plays at Cinematheque on Oct. 17

Hit the streets, then fix them

Alex Neufeldt (City editor) – September 23, 2021

Sixty-three per cent of West Broadway residents don’t drive a car.

Or rather, even if they can drive, they primarily bike, walk and take public transportation. And yet, there is an incredibly busy and dangerous traffic artery that slices through the neighbourhood: a thoroughfare that is simply not designed with the neighbourhood’s residents in mind.