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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THE ODYSSEY: Canada’s Cult Classic – Part 3
By the end of its second season, The Odyssey had come a long way from the modern-day mythical quest first dreamed up by Paul Vitols and Warren Easton five years prior. The mind-bending adventures of
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THE ODYSSEY: Canada’s Cult Classic – Part 2
As the first season of The Odyssey completed its seminal run on CBC in January 1993, the numbers were more than impressed enough to guarantee a second season, but not without some major adjustments. Show
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THE ODYSSEY: Canada’s Cult Classic- Part 1
A boy in a treehouse fort looks down at the forest floor fifty feet below him. Suddenly the rope in his hands snaps causing him to plummet down….down…down. He slams into the ground, knocking him
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National Canadian Film Day: Revisiting LAST NIGHT
The anxiety around Y2K seems almost quaint 20 years on. It turned out to be just one of many end of the world predictions that failed to materialize including the more recent Mayan-favourite endgame of
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