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Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City and Mortal Kombat Could Be the Video Game Movies We’ve Been Waiting For, and Both Feature Canadian Actors

March 24, 2021March 22, 2021OpinionMortal Kombat, Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City

Yesterday, the title of the cinematic reboot for video game developer Capcom’s genre-defining series, Resident Evil, was revealed, and…it’s a little underwhelming. To be fair, while its subtitle of Welcome to Racoon City hardly screams

Canadians Largely Overlooked in A Delightfully Eclectic List of Oscar Nominees

March 17, 2021March 15, 2021Awards#OscarssoWhite, A Concerto is a Conversation, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Canadian Nominees, Dune, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank, Nomadland, One Night In Miami, Oscars, The Walking Dead

Strange times can breed strange behaviours. For proof, just think back to the beginning of this pandemic when people prioritised hoarding toilet paper above all else. Then, this morning, a little over a year since

PG: Psycho Goreman Review

March 10, 2021March 8, 2021ReviewNita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, PG Pyscho Goreman

PG Psycho Goreman does not inspire confidence in its opening moments. I knew what I was getting into, adjusting my expectations accordingly, yet I still found myself thinking “OK, here we go, another Hobo with

Allan Moyle’s Pump Up the Volume is the Ultimate Generation X Film

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021OpinionAllan Moyle, Pump Up the Volume

Say what you will, but it is no easy task for a film to capture the mood of its time. Sure, the likes Fight Club and The Social Network, both directed by David Fincher, and

Existenz – Review

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021ReviewDavid Cronenberg, Existenz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law

There are concepts in cinema so richly complex by nature that filmmakers revisit them again and again, from time travel and artificial intelligence to space exploration and extraterrestrial life. One common thread they all share

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Tara Strong: The Woman of a Thousand Voices

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021ActorsFairly OddParents, Final Fantasy X, Party of Five, Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Tara Strong, Teen Titans, The New Batman Adventures, Third Rock From The Sun

Some film stars are amongst the most recognisable faces in the world. The likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Ryan Gosling and Jennifer Laurence, for example, are barely able to grab a coffee without fans