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ADULT ADOPTION an Enthralling Social Drama

January 17, 2023January 16, 2023ReviewAdult Adoption, Ellie Moon, Leah Diaz, Michael Healy, Rebecca Northan

You’d be challenged to find a more egregious gap in our social services than the one facing foster kids “aging out” of care. Often dumped into adulthood without the life skills or ongoing familial support

THE FRIENDSHIP GAME a Fun-Free Horror

January 10, 2023January 9, 2023ReviewBrendan Meyer, Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Kelsey Mawema, Peyton List, The Friendship Game

Never are the bonds of childhood friendship more tested when we hit the beginning stages of adulthood and move on to different cities, schools, jobs, etc. It’s rich dramatic ground that director Scooter Corkle barely

SNOW DAY Review

January 3, 2023January 10, 2023ReviewJerry Trainor, Ky Baldwin, Michaela Russell, Nickelodeon, Shelby Simmons, Snow Day

The first movie that I was aware had filmed in my hometown was the Nickelodeon cult classic Snow Day, released to multiplexes in early 2000. We had only moved to Edmonton about nine months before

Critic’s Choice: TOP 5 FOR 2022

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022OpinionDonkeyhead, Quarantine Fling, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Swan Song, The Long Rider, Unsilenced, Violent Night, We Don't Dance for Nothing

For British Columbia at least, 2022 was the first year of this decade where movie theatres weren’t shuttered for months at a time due to government-imposed pandemic restrictions. After one last gasp of emergency health

VIOLENT NIGHT a Bloody Fun Xmas Gift

December 20, 2022December 13, 2022ReviewBeverly D'Angelo, David Harbour, Die Hard, Jon Leguizamo, Tommy Wirkola, Violent Night

The cultural banter over whether Die Hard can be considered a Christmas movie has become more curdled than overnight eggnog. For the record, the 1988 John McTiernan classic isn’t one. Die Hard is an action

WFF: MIDNIGHT AT THE PARADISE

December 13, 2022December 13, 2022ReviewAllan Hawk, Emma Ferreira, Midnight at the Paradise, Ryan Allen, Vanessa Matsui, WFF, Whistler Film Festival

“Unrequited love. Isn’t that what most memorable movies are about?” No one makes it through their 30s without re-assessing all of the important life choices they made in their younger years. Whom they married, the