Craig Silliphant

Laugh and ponder Craig Silliphant uses humour to unpack the absurdity of our times in his new book, Bunnyhug Cynic

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One Battle After Another - Craig Silliphant Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is his most expensive movie to date, and you can feel both the budget and the ambition pressing on the screen. While PTA is one of my favourite director...

Here's my review of One Battle After Another, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson. Did you see it? What did you think?

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Laugh and ponder Craig Silliphant uses humour to unpack the absurdity of our times in his new book, Bunnyhug Cynic

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Craig Silliphant, #Saskatoon writer, tackles the absurdities of our times with humour in his new book, Bunnyhug Cynic.

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YouTube video by CTV News Recounting life at The Freshtastic Food Bar

Thanks to Jeremy Dodge, Jeff Rogstad, and CTV News for more shameless self-promotion of my new book, Bunnyhug Cynic! Here is the chat I had with Jeremy that tells you more about the book. Cheers!

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Pick up my new book, Bunnyhug Cynic. It’s a collection of comedic essays about Saskatchewan, pop culture, and the crushing absurdity of existence. Oh, and of course, the glory days of Bonanza Steakhouse.

Grab a copy in Saskatoon at Turning the Tide Bookstore or McNally Robinson, or Amazon.

Oasis Live ’25 – Chicago (Concert Review) - Craig Silliphant We weren’t super keen on going to the States with everything that’s going on there, but we had pounced on the Oasis Live ’25 tickets before the country melted down. However, once I started seeing the ...

Jenny and I went to Chicago to see the epic Oasis Live '25 tour! Here's my review of the concert. The way the band took over the whole city was amazing. Fookin' biblical, man!

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Saskatoon Dining: Paradox Pizza & Brewery - Craig Silliphant I first noticed Paradox Pizza on Instagram as a pop-up at places like Amigos, but I was never able to get there. Then suddenly, like some kind of culinary mirage turned solid, their sign went up on th...

Have you tried the new Paradox Pizza & Brewery on Broadway? I took my family there last week and wrote this piece about our experience. Enjoy!

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Weapons - Craig Silliphant Zach Cregger, one of the twisted minds behind the absurdist sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U’ Know, made a huge leap into horror with 2022’s Barbarian. That film’s first half was a master class...

Here's my spoiler-free review of Weapons, the new film from the director of Barbarian. It's a horror movie, but it brings to mind movies like Magnolia and Pulp Fiction.

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Been Caught Stealing (Comedy) - Craig Silliphant Have you ever shoplifted anything? Ever been caught? I have. Sort of. Not exactly. But also, yes. I lived in Regina for four years as a preteen, from grade five to grade eight, 1985 to 1988. It was a ...

I wrote a new comedy piece called 'Been Caught Stealing,' about growing up Gen X, the time I got arrested for a crime I didn’t commit, and how it all came full circle when I grew up. Enjoy!

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Fantastic Four - Craig Silliphant Marvel really needed this one to land. With all the talk of superhero fatigue and Marvel oversaturating the market with mediocrity the last few years, Fantastic Four could have been a cosmic palate cl...

Here's my spoiler-free review of Fantastic Four! Did you see it? What did you think? Was it enough to kickstart the MCU to again?

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Superman (Movie Review) It's cool to be kind.

Here's my review of Superman! Your mileage may vary depending on your love/hate of James Gunn's style, but I loved it. A film filled with fun, action, and best of all, kindness and hope. This is what Superman should be.

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In Through the Outdoor – My Magical, Medical Butt Adventure (Comedy) - Craig Silliphant First, a warning: this piece falls squarely in the realm of TMI. It’s a story about one man and his colonoscopy. I mean, it’s medical, so we could choose to be mature about it. However, I most certain...

Dennis Quaid is up my butt! Well, not quite, but if you want a laugh (and don't mind TMI), read this comedy piece I wrote about the colonoscopy I had last week. Enjoy! I sure didn't.

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Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning - Craig Silliphant The Mission: Impossible franchise has been running, leaping, and dangling from tall things since 1996, when the film series spun off from the classic 1960s TV show. Now, eight films deep, Mission Impo...

Here's my SPOILER-FREE review of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning!

Did you see it? What did you think?

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Thunderbolts* - Craig Silliphant So here we are, deep into the Marvel burnout era, where every new release feels like a post-credits scene from something better that came out five years ago. But against all odds, Thunderbolts* is... ...

Here's my review of Thunderbolts*! Is it good enough to count as a win against Marvel's recent spiraling?

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Adolescence - Craig Silliphant Thanks for reading! Subscribe to get these pieces directly to your inbox. It's free! At first glance, Netflix’s Adolescence looks like it might be all style over substance — a “one-take” series that s...

Lots of great TV lately, but if the Netflix show Adolescence slipped past you, go check it out. It's amazingly well-told and technically brilliant. Here's my spoiler-free write up!

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Saskatoon Dining: SULU 甦龍 - Craig Silliphant For more free articles about Saskatoon food & drink, plus more fun stuff, click to subscribe! My wife and I got a chance to try out one of Saskatoon’s most-anticipated new restaurants over the weekend...

Have you checked out Sulu? New Asian restaurant hotspot downtown. Jenny and I went on Saturday --- here's my write up!

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Cocktail Hour – The (Lazy) Southern Gentleman’s Godfather - Craig Silliphant For free articles straight to your inbox, click and subscribe! Cheers! When people come over to my house for a dashing evening of snacks, records, and conversation, they often partake of one of my sig...

A fun little piece I wrote about one of my favourite cocktails, The Godfather!

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The Monkey - Craig Silliphant Click here to subscribe for free to get these articles right to your email inbox! Otherwise, the creepy toy monkey under your bed will GET YOU. Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey is the latest in a long line ...

Here's my review of The Monkey!

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A 25th Anniversary Love Letter to The Yard & Flagon - Craig Silliphant For more writing about cool stuff, straight to your inbox, click here to subscribe! This February marks the 25th anniversary of The Yard & Flagon, a cornerstone of Broadway Avenue and a true Saskatoon...

I wrote a love letter to my favourite local, The Yard & Flagon in #yxe. It's their 25th anniversary! Show them some love and enjoy the piece. There are some pictures of me with much more hair (and less beard), haha.

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Captain America: Brave New World - Craig Silliphant For more reviews and writing --- delivered right to your inbox, hurl your shield (or just click here) to subscribe to the mailing list! Marvel used to be a powerhouse, an unstoppable cinematic machine...

Here's my review of Captain America: Brave New World! It's passable if you're into this sort of thing, but also pretty messy.

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All We Imagine as Light - Craig Silliphant Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light is one of those films that sneaks up on you. It starts as a quiet, observational drama, unfolding in the lives of two nurses, Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Div...

All We Imagine as Light is the best film I've seen so far this year. It's playing at The Broadway Theatre this month! If you like Sean Baker, Sofia Coppola, or Wong Kar Wai, you'll love this one.

Here's my review:

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The Top 10 Movies I Saw in 2024 - Craig Silliphant It’s that time of year, movie lovers! When we begin to enact our New Year’s resolutions and try to get rid of those holiday pounds, I know it’s time to drop my choices for the best (and worst) movies ...

And now, the list you've been waiting for (well, if you have a sad existence like me, haha) --- my TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2024!

You can see #11 - #30 and my Top 6 Worst Movies of 2024 at Craig Silliphant dot com.

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The Best Movies of 2024: #11 to #30 (The Best of the Rest) - Craig Silliphant I saw hundreds of films this year, some great, some terrible, and some in between. This list is the rest of the Top 30, movies that I deemed good enough to go on the list, even if they didn’t make the...

As promised, I continue my year end Best and Worst Films of 2024 lists. Here are the best films of the year, #11 to #30. You can find the Top 10 and the Worst Movies of 2024 at Craig Silliphant dot com.

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The 6 Worst Movies I Saw in 2024 - Craig Silliphant For someone learning the craft of film, screenwriting, or criticism, a bad movie can be just as important as a good movie. Sometimes more important. It shows you what not to do. I guess I learned a lo...

My Best and Worst Films of 2024 lists are live at Craig Silliphant dot com! I'll post them over the week.

Let's start with the six worst movies I saw this year! Did you see any of them? AND --- what were the worst movies YOU saw this year?

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Dave Scaddan’s Top 20 Albums of 2024! - Craig Silliphant Editor’s Note: For many years, we at The Feedback Society would publish our year end lists of the best in music and film. The task of best albums of the year always went to my friend Dave Scaddan, a m...

Over the next week, I'm throwing down year end lists at Craig Silliphant dot com. Starting with my buddy Dave Scaddan's Top 20 Albums of 2024! We've been publishing his music picks for over a decade now and there's always so much great stuff on there. Enjoy!
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2024 ends today! I'll be on CBC Blue Sky at noon on CBC Radio, chatting with Leisha Grebinski and Tyler Babiy about our impressions of '24 and what's to come in 2025. Tune in! Should be worth a couple of laughs, maybe even an insight or two. And from my family to you and yours --- happy New Year!

Saturday Night - Craig Silliphant On October 11th, 1975, the first episode of an upstart young sketch comedy show called Saturday Night hit the NBC airwaves. It originated because talk show god Johnny Carson wanted more time off. They...

Here's my review of Saturday Night!

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Joker: Folie à Deux - Craig Silliphant In 2019, Todd Phillips directed Joker, (very) loosely based on the DC Comics Batman villain. Joaquin Phoenix played Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill societal castoff who finds a new identity in the Joker....

My full review of Joker: Folie à Deux! (More like Folie à Poo, amirite?).

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The Substance - Craig Silliphant I grew up on a smorg of wildly different influences that informed my film education. Everything from mainstream movies, to the wild VHS horror and exploitation films of John Carpenter or Troma, to the...

Did you have a chance to see the bold new body horror movie, The Substance? It's not going to be for everyone, but it'll be one of the most talked about movies of the year. Here's my review!

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