“Where is the map and the key?” snarls a henchman as he corners Jackie Chan at gunpoint in a Moroccan hotel room (actually a set in Hong Kong). Jackie denies any knowledge of the items,
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MORE THAN MIYAGI Reveals the Man Behind the Crane Kick
Wax on, wax off. Besides never getting their big break, every actor has one fear: being typecast as their big break. Most of the moviegoing audience only knows Noriyuki “Pat” Morita as the wise Karate
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VFF: EVENTS TRANSPIRING BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER A HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME
What’s a sports movie that features everything but the actual sport? The modern substitute for tribal warfare tends to generate more than a few subplots in it’s periphery and it’s on these bench-warming events that
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VFF: JUKEBOX: THE AMERICAN DREAM, MADE IN QUÉBEC
“When we think of the year ’67-68,” one of Jukebox‘s many interview subjects relates, “Pantis was the king. The numbers are there to prove it.” The son of Greek immigrants, Denis Pantis had dreams of
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VSFF 2021 Reviews in a Capsule Vol 2
By sheer accident, all the shorts in this week’s batch begin with “the”. I only realized this three selections in so I figured I might as well make it a matching set. While the titles
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VSFF 2021 Reviews in a Capsule
Considering that every film at the dawn at cinema was a “short film” before the hour-plus feature length became standard in the 1910s, it is a shame that the short form has been granted Rodney
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