![]() ![]() The impetus behind the ROM exhibition is a smart one. Kent Monkman's painting, I Come From pâkwan kîsik, the Hole in the Sky. And at that point, as the mystical and the earnest replace the cheeky and the satirical, Monkman’s project becomes increasingly dubious. Here, however, the approach is used not merely to critique colonialism, but to explore Indigenous knowledge. That has been his modus operandi for 20 years, as Miss Chief interrupts the Fathers of Confederation or rams into a raft carrying Queen Victoria, Marie Antoinette and Jesus Christ. Of course, this is all tongue-in-cheek as Monkman once again uses the big art of the colonizer to undercut its own cultural monopoly. When I fell to askîy – this planet you call Earth – my form shifted from pure matter to cloud, to rain sprinkled with cosmic dust, and love.” ![]() That being was me, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. I shall now correct that tragic omission with my usual great humility. “There was another sacred being created whom some of you do not yet know. The spirit herself, on the other hand, slides into an Indigenous cosmology: “Long ago – kisê-manitow, the creator, formed the sacred beings and all that there is,” explains a text written by Monkman’s collaborator Gisèle Gordon. Monkman has a long love affair with the dramatic compositions and burnished surfaces of traditional Western history painting, and viewers will sense the reference to the billowing clouds and flowing robes of Baroque religious art even if they can’t quite recall a specific Ascension or Assumption. ![]() His gender-fluid alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle descends from the skies wrapped in strategically placed pink drapery and represented as one of the original creative spirits of the universe. ![]() In the first paintings of his new show at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, there he is – or rather she – front and centre. It takes some nerve to paint your own apotheosis, but the Cree artist Kent Monkman has never lacked chutzpah. Why it took this long is beyond this critic.Please log in to bookmark this story. Well, the humor is the biggest, but humanity is a close second. The ones that are confident and unapologetic. The kind that we are surrounded by in our communities everyday. Not the sit-com gay that delivers a passive agressive insult along with a physical trademark kind of gay. As such you can expect ridiculously witty one-liners, an intimate love scene and a look into what it is really like to be gay. The two opposites are drawn together in one of the funniest films dripping in pop culture references to be released this decade.īros is as advertised, a gay romantic comedy. He comes across Aaron (Luke McFarlane) who saunters into his social circle one night at a club. He wears his single-ness with pride and has zero-point-zero issues using apps to get his. If you don’t know by now that Bros is the first ever gay romcom flick starring an all gay cast ever to be distributed by a major studio yet, then we have to insist you stop trolling your ex’s social feed and rejoin society.īilly Eichner ( Billy on the Street) is a 40-year old podcaster in New York named Bobby Lieber. While some fans of the original are taking to social media and trashing the movie, others are loving that they can share it with their kiddos. For parents, that is welcomed news for this family friendly film. Hocus Pocus 2 is a product of Disney and if there is one thing the Mouse House does not like, it’s change. They along with a super duper brief appearance from Hannah Waddingham ( Ted Lasso) make this a bit more enjoyable. New to the movie are Sam Richardson and Tony Hale (both of VEEP). The formula, story and even the wardrobe are the same. That is to say, other than the advancement of special effects, not much has changed. Those of us who remember the first Hocus Pocus we know exactly what to expect from this sequel. The child-hungry witches – complete with a fun-sized origin story in the beginning – begin working their magic upon the town. Hocus Pocus 2 sees Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy appear once again in the Salem of today thanks to another set of three young ladies. The Sanderson sisters have been conjured up again in this long awaited sequel. That thought would make any girl shudder. My theory is she has been confronted with people all her life raving about her sex-symbol dad. What I will say is that Sosie Bacon (daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedwick) can turn on the terrified look quicker than the Reeses Cups will disappear from my house this Halloween. Does she succeed? Even though the story is more than predictable, I am not going to spoil it. ![]()
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