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DOXA: WE DON’T DANCE FOR NOTHING

May 10, 2022May 9, 2022ReviewDOXA, Gratiano Wong, Juliana Wong, Miles Sible, We Don't Dance for Nothing

I was fortunate enough to visit Hong Kong before both the pandemic and the 2019 Freedom protests that rocked the former island colony to its core. I observed many things while there: dense urbanism, endless

DOXA: DOUG AND THE SLUGS AND ME Review

May 3, 2022May 2, 2022ReviewDoug and the Slugs and Me, DOXA, Tersa Alfeld

I haven’t listened to the radio regularly in years and I don’t mean just Top 40 either. All the adult contemporary and “favorites” FM stations seemed hell bent on playing the same handful of earworms

DOXA: LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL Review

April 26, 2022April 25, 2022ReviewDOXA, Love in the Time of Fentanyl

“The only difference between you and I is one bad decision.” Even with more recent public health (and climate) crises occupying headline space, the ongoing Opioid crisis continues to simmer in the Vancouver psyche. Every

NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY: An Interview with Founders Jack Blum and Sharon Corder

April 19, 2022April 18, 2022InterviewJack Blum, National Canadian Film Day, Sharon Corder

While the existence of the “free lunch” remains debatable, there are certainly free movies if you know where to look, and the discerning moviegoer need look no further than Wednesday April 20 where National Canadian

NIGHT BLOOMS Review

April 12, 2022April 11, 2022ReviewAlexandra McDonald, Jessica Clement, Nick Stahl, Night Blooms

It’s a difficult task for a storyteller to take a modern forbidden love story and not sensationalise the hell out of it. Whether for a Lifetime movie-of-the-week or a true-life Netflix doc, it’s difficult to

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 Hits a High Score

April 5, 2022April 4, 2022ReviewBen Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Tika Sumpter

After nearly being derailed by early fan backlash to its lead character design, Sonic the Hedgehog went on to arguably become the final theatrical box office success before the COVID pandemic shuttered theaters for months,