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I’ve Heard the Mermaid’s Singing (Review)

February 7, 2018February 6, 2018ReviewI've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Patricia Rozema

One of the major reasons I love cinema so much, is that it has such a grand capacity for escapism. While I feel it is essential to be engaged by grounded and challenging cinematic works,

2018 Academy Awards and the Canadian Nominees

January 31, 2018January 29, 2018AwardsAcademy Awards, Kevin Spacey, Lady Bird, Mudbound, The Breadwinner, The Shape of Water

It is that time of year again, as the film awards season is in full throttle, soon to be closed out by the milestone 90th Academy Awards. This year’s Academy Awards are significant not just

Demolition (Review)

January 24, 2018January 22, 2018ReviewDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallee

Last week, in my review of Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild, I acknowledged the Montreal director’s increasingly recognisable style, which makes use of fleeting images and flashbacks to produce emotionally hard-hitting revelations in the present. The intricate

Wild (Review)

January 17, 2018January 17, 2018ReviewCheryl Strayed, Jean-Marc Vallee, Wild

The concept of visual poetry is not so easily defined. If I were to make any sort of attempt at defining it, I would say that it is something you sense or feel, evoked from

Wake in Fright and the Gift of the Restored Classic

January 10, 2018January 9, 2018ReviewTod Kotcheff, Wake in Fright

It is not entirely unusual for a film’s original print to get lost in the processes of history. In actual fact, they estimate that just over 75% of U.S. silent films are forever lost, and

Moonstruck (Review)

January 3, 2018December 31, 2017ReviewCher, Moonstruck, Nicholas Cage

There are many in my generation who don’t know this, but Cher once won an Oscar in the late ‘80s. In all likelihood, either you are now shaking your head as you curse the obviousness

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