Like many fellow Canadians of recent generations, Nicholas Wong came of age in the halls of the Degrassi franchise. Only in his case, he was literally on the Toronto set of the early 2000s “Next
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DOXA: Late Documentarian Offered Trial and Tribute in WINTOPIA
“I don’t know how to make this the hopeful film my dad intended it to be.” bemoans Mira Burt-Wintonick as she sifts through 300+ tapes of an unfinished project left behind by her father, the
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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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DOXA: Doc a Delightful Invitation to EDDY’S KINGDOM
With all the tax dollars poured into stale re-creations of Canadian history on CBC and other CANCON broadcasters, you have to wonder how they managed to miss the riveting adventures of Eddy Haymour. It might
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The United States of BC On-Screen
I found myself watching the 1990 action extravaganza Bird on a Wire on Netflix recently. In the film, Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn are on the run from gangsters and corrupt law enforcement in order
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Canadian Cinemas Map a Post-Lockdown World
Quick, name the number one box-office smash in North America. “What box office?” you ask. Haven’t theatres been closed since mid-March? It’s true that most of the continent’s approximately 45,000 cinema screens went dark shortly
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