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Forgotten History Resurrected in VITAGRAPH

June 8, 2021June 7, 2021ReviewAndrew A. Erish, Vitagraph

It has been estimated that around 75% of all American silent movies have been lost to history, and that’s just the feature films. The reasons range from studio apathy where some films were literally destroyed

TRIGGER POINT Hits Mediocrity and Not Much Else

June 1, 2021May 31, 2021ReviewBarry Pepper, Brad Turner, CanCon, Carlo Rota, Colm Feore, Trigger Point

I’ve written much about the current state of Canadian Content (or CANCON) in my time on this site. I most recently laid out my feelings in an article two weeks ago. With a bill to

EAT WHEATIES! a Cringe-tastic Treat Review

May 25, 2021May 24, 2021ReviewEat Wheaties!, Elizabeth Banks, Scott Abramovitch, Tony Hale

We all have that one friend in our lives who is super outgoing and eager to please, usually to the point of sheer exasperation for everyone around them, not that they’d notice. This personality type

Bill C-10: The CANCON Moose in the Room

May 18, 2021May 17, 2021The Bottom LineBill C-10, CanCon

If you asked a Canadian filmmaker in 2008 if they supported Bill C-10, you likely would’ve got a resounding “NO” along with a DVD of Young People F*cking. But that was another time and a

DOXA: AALTO Awfully Abstract for an Architecture Doc

May 11, 2021April 30, 2021ReviewAalto, Virpi Suutari

“Humans form the scale,” relates the late Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in an archival interview. “I cannot turn humans into giants or dwarves. I have to conform to human dimensions”. So was the philosophy of

DOXA (Short): KALINGA Review

May 4, 2021April 30, 2021ReviewEster Tabujara, Kalinga, Kent Donguines, Mable Elmore

The documentary form is certainly adept at bringing far-flung people and places into our hearts and minds via condensed visual storytelling. The genre can be further given credit for breaking down the barriers that separate