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The Perils of Pre-Covid Quarantine in ALONE WOLF

July 7, 2020July 6, 2020ReviewAloen Wolf, Cara Gee, Charles Ehrlinger, James Aaron Oliver, Richard De Klerk, Trent Walker

I can’t help but imagine how the protagonist of Charles Ehrlinger’s suburban thriller Alone Wolf would have handled the pandemic and social unrest that have so far marked 2020. He’d probably need an underground bunker

TALENT ON TAP: Cutting Picture East Coast-Style with NICHOLAS WONG

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020InterviewBeacons of Gondor, Dark Matter, Nicholas Wong, The Baroness Von Sketch Show, Utopia Falls

Like many fellow Canadians of recent generations, Nicholas Wong came of age in the halls of the Degrassi franchise. Only in his case, he was literally on the Toronto set of the early 2000s “Next

DOXA: Late Documentarian Offered Trial and Tribute in WINTOPIA

June 23, 2020March 9, 2021ReviewMira Burt-Wintonick, Peter Wintonick, Wintopia

“I don’t know how to make this the hopeful film my dad intended it to be.” bemoans Mira Burt-Wintonick as she sifts through 300+ tapes of an unfinished project left behind by her father, the

DOXA: THE END FROM HERE Makes Molehills Among Mountains

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020ReviewDOA, Hyder, Jim Russell, Ken Olsen, The End From Here

Growing up in Northern British Columbia, I had a baseball cap adorned with a cartoon ghost and captioned “Hyder, Alaska”, one of many ghost towns in North America’s post-industrial era. My parents told me we

DOXA: Doc a Delightful Invitation to EDDY’S KINGDOM

June 9, 2020June 8, 2020ReviewEddy Haymour, Eddy's Kingdom

With all the tax dollars poured into stale re-creations of Canadian history on CBC and other CANCON broadcasters, you have to wonder how they managed to miss the riveting adventures of Eddy Haymour. It might

The United States of BC On-Screen

June 2, 2020June 1, 2020Canadian Independent FilmsBC films, United States

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