“A made-in-Vancouver classic” proclaims the handwritten sticker affixed to a low-budget label DVD that I purchased from some video store closing sale somewhere (Black Dog Video? Limelight Video? There’s been too many). As you may
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SATAN WANTS YOU Offers a Cure for Moral Panic
The “Satanic Panic” is a cultural phenomenon that never really got past my peripheral vision, having largely been over before my time. But if you were alive and conscious in the 1980s, chances are you
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NORTH OF NORMAL Review
I’m certain that I’m not the only city slicker who has googled the benefits and methods of moving “off the grid”; disconnecting from the trappings, systems, and corruption of modern society in order to commune
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GIRL GONE BAD Review
It’s often quite satisfying to see the hero of a story turn the table on a villain. It’s somewhat less satisfying to see them do it within the first few chapters and, as Harvey Dent
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THEY DON’T PAY ME TO SAY NO: My Life In Film and Television Props
As someone who works in, writes about, and is an all-around fan of the film business, I have devoured many non-fiction books on various aspects of the industry, especially biographies. These have generally been the
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JULY TALK: LOVE LIVES HERE A Beautiful But Unfocused Doc
“Pray For It really belongs to the year 2020 in a weird way…” Unlike the daily news, feature-length documentaries often lag just a step or two behind the zeitgeist, often most useful at looking back
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