As I gradually make my way through the great David Cronenberg’s filmography, the journey this week has led me to his 1979 feature, The Brood, one of Cronenberg’s most controversial films in his storied career.
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DOXA: THE END FROM HERE Makes Molehills Among Mountains
Growing up in Northern British Columbia, I had a baseball cap adorned with a cartoon ghost and captioned “Hyder, Alaska”, one of many ghost towns in North America’s post-industrial era. My parents told me we
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Talent On Tap – Sam Vint Brings The Tournament Home
In life, there are challenges that will make you or break you! We all have our limitations even if it looks like we’re always winning on the outside. Sometimes those challenges come from your career,
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Talent On Tap – Kiefer O’Reilly – Canada’s Young Rising Star
Canada’s talent pool just keeps growing, literally. Child actors that have been in more films by the time they’re 12 than most directors have made in a career. I’m talking about acting phenom Kiefer O’Reilly,
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Questioning Inappropriate Questions – Interview
Something interesting on CBC has been renewed for a second season, and I’m not talking about some dramatic tv show starring authorities. I’m talking about the podcast Inappropriate Questions. To some people, it may sound
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Alita: Battle Angel Review
A passion project of filmmaker extraordinaire James Cameron since the 1990s, Alita: Battle Angel released in February last 2019 to much anticipation. It is the long-awaited adaptation of Japanese manga series Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro,
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