Reviews

A music collage representing Judson Doncaster's most listened to artists in 2025. (Malachi Lefurgey/AQ) In 2025, I listened to an obscene amount of music. My total ended up at over 150,000 minutes and these are the tracks that I spent the most time with.  “Pennies” by The Smashing Pumpkins came in at number one for a good reason.  This song is airy and jovial without feeling mockish. While it is buried deep in the long and masterful album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadne

Ghost Mountain is making a comeback after disappearing for four years. returning with their newest album October Country . (Submitted: Judson Doncaster) October   Country  by Ghost Mountain is my album of the year for 2025.  Ghost Mountain started his career as a dark and gritty rapper who found success alongside his friend and fellow rapper, Sematary.  Ghost Mountain started as a mainstay feature on both of Sematary’s first two albums, but had only one solo song titled “Coil

The Smashing Pumpkins album cover of Siamese Dream . (Credit: Pinterest) I could talk about The Smashing Pumpkins endlessly (and I do). The four band members are all individual legends and their sound together is irreplicable.  They burst onto the scene with their first album Gish , which at the time was the highest-selling independent album ever. They followed that success with something even better: Siamese Dream  in 1993.  This album was relatively different compared to th

Jaydes most recent album, Yen.  (Credit: Judson Doncaster) Jaydes is the most compelling artist of the last 15 years. This self-titled album, released under his middle name, Yen, is a sound that does not easily fit into any genre.  Although an artist who found early success as an underground rapper, Jaydes’ music has ventured from just him and his guitar to what can best be described as pseudo punk.  He is truly an enigma who is able to create compelling music in every genre

You’d Prefer An Astronaut  by Hum album cover. (Credit: Pinterest) You’d Prefer An Astronaut  by Hum is an immaculate album. It takes everything that made early ‘90s music so memorable and pushes it to the next level. Bands like Deftones have cited Hum as “a huge influence” and personally, this album is their masterpiece. The four-piece alt-rock band from Illinois has three songs on the record that I believe are flawless: “Stars,” “I Hate It Too” and “Why I Like the Robins.”

"Who Killed the Montreal Expos" features celebrated members of the MLB's former team the Montreal Expos. (Credit: Netflix) On Oct. 21, Netflix released a new documentary looking into the history and downfall of the first Canadian Major League Baseball team, the Montreal Expos. Directed by Québécois filmmaker Jean-François Poisson, “Who Killed the Montreal Expos” is a fast-paced documentary that interviews former players, sports journalists, owners and fans telling the story o

The Indigo Girls played at the Harvest Music Festival in Fredericton last Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, opening for Melissa Etheridge on the main stage. (Submitted: Indigo Girls) I am not a lifelong resident of Fredericton. I only heard of the Harvest Music Festival when I came to Fredericton to pursue my Bachelor’s and STU gave out free day passes.  The first year I attended Harvest, Trey Anastasio was headlining a very high-profile rock n’ roll artist. This headliner was still

On March 7, Mickey 17 premiered in theatres. Starring Robert Pattinson, this dystopian storyline transports the audience to a future where science has discovered a way to resurrect humans through 3D printing.  

<p>Running from Feb. 19 to Feb. 23, the STU Musical Theatre department brought the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to life on stage in the Black Box Theatre. Throughout the show, the cast made a point to convey the essence of a friendly small town, where strangers smile at each other on the street and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Feb. 14, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) premiered its brand new chapter of the following wave of Avengers — Captain America: Brave New World.  Screening on Valentine’s Day, this movie was Anthony Mackie’s debut as Captain America, laying the foundation for the modern era of Marvel, which includes The Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts, The Marvels [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Whenever Bad Bunny releases a new album, you just know you’re starting a new season of your life that will live on your mind for years to come.  After the release of YHLQMDLG (I Do Whatever I Want) in 2020, a lot of fans listened and danced to the album indoors amidst a global pandemic. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Throughout the decades, the world has seen so many renditions of Romeo and Juliet that if you haven’t heard about the Shakespearean play, you never had an English teacher who was obsessed with the English playwright and made you read his work in grade school.  With Franco Zefirrelli’s first movie on Romeo and Juliet in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Roided up, paranoid, strung out, stained in blood, vomit, sweat and semen. Logically ramps up its surreal, neon tinged violence to complete ludicrousy. The gun was destructive, traumatizing, empowering, addictive, a high calibre hand cannon made for the express purpose of mutilating human flesh and annihilating life. Love Lies Bleeding is a grand fucking time, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For the entire second half of Dune: Part Two’s nearly three hour run time, I had to pee so bad. But man was it hard to look away from. If Dune was an art house sci-fi flick, Dune: Part Two is a militaristic epic of existential proportions. Balancing complex character arcs, surreal violence, prophet visions, apocalyptic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Propaganda gets a bit of a dirty name in the West. It&#8217;s deeply surreal almost how much of our media is drenched in state-approved military sludge despite our obsession with liberty and free thinking. From anything from Marvel films to the 1996 Independence Day, everything is slathered in this aforementioned sludge. That being said, sometimes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>5 Broken Cameras is a difficult film to put into words. Clichés are clichés for a reason and as such, considering this is free both on Youtube and on Tubi, there is absolutely no reason not to watch this movie before reading this review. TL; DR It’s a beautiful piece of art, an absolute triumph [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anyone But You is the newest Shakespeare-inspired rom-com to hit theatres starring famous hot people such as Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell. While not as consistently funny or abrasive as 2023’s No Hard Feelings, it’s as cute and corny as you’d expect and written with all the cheesiness of a Wattpad fanfiction. Despite a questionably [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Beekeeper, the latest Jason Statham vehicle full of gnarly goofiness doesn’t feel like a theatrical event. Despite the commitment to all-gas-no-breaks storytelling, the excessive explosions and effective violence, it feels less like a truly cinematic experience, and instead the kind of fun, quick and dumb action film you’d find in a direct-to-video (DTV) bargain [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Mean Girls remake was fine. It wasn’t a particularly good movie, but I had fun with it for the hour and a half I was in the theatre. All in all, it’s a pretty solid, inoffensive 6 or 7/10. Despite this, I can’t help but feel a little disappointed at how underwhelming it was. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Near the end of Salt of this Sea, Soraya, a 28-year-old Palestinian American from Brooklyn who has ventured to her grandfather’s house that was stolen during the Nakba, now owned by an Israeli, looks through the modernized building and in the cupboards of a stolen home sitting on stolen land, she comes across a mug [&hellip;]</p>