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KILLER QUEEN a Psycho Peek at Cinema’s Underground

April 14, 2020April 13, 2020ReviewFatima Maziani, Killer Queen, Ramin Fahrenheit

Freddy Mercury may have been lampooning the upper crust in the 1974 hit Killer Queen, but Ramin Fahrenheit’s psycho-drama of the same name keeps things much closer to the poverty line. It’s a curiosity I

THE DECLINE Plays a Chilling Game of Survivor

April 7, 2020April 1, 2020ReviewGuillaume Laurin, Marc Beaupré, Marie-Evelyne Lessard, Réal Bossé, The Decline

With the theatrical release calendar virtually vacant for the foreseeable future, there’s never been a better time to have your film premiere on the plethora of streaming services available in this quarantined, fibre-optic age. Even

Classic NHL Captured on Film in FACE-OFF

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020ReviewArt Hindle, Face-Off, Frank Moore, John Vernon, Trudy Young

Never in my recent memory has anything caused the entire wide world of sports to shut down like Covid-19. This outta-control virus has cancelled seemingly everything in its path from NBA to even the mighty

FREAKS Delivers Huge Thrills in a Small Package

March 24, 2020March 16, 2020ReviewAdam Stein, Ava Telek, Bruce Dern, Emile Hersch, Freaks, Lexy Koller, Michelle Harrison, Zach Lipovsky

One of my favourite Canadian films of recent years was 2015’s Room, the harrowing story of a young boy imprisoned with his mother for the first five years of his life before being freed and

Johnny Ma Gives Us Good Reason TO LIVE TO SING

March 17, 2020March 16, 2020ReviewGuidan Gan, Jinli Opera Troupe, To Live To Sing, Xiaoli Zhao

It’s no surprise to anyone in the creative arts how precious performing and exhibition space can be. As real estate booms and condos grow, it can become increasingly hard for small performing arts companies to

HOLLYWOOD’S CANADA: Johnny Belinda

March 10, 2020March 2, 2020ReviewAgnes Moorehead, Charles Bickford, Hollywood's Canada, Johnny Belinda, Lew Ayres, Stephen McNally

Most of the films I’ve covered in the course of this column tend to fall among the high adventure or thriller genres.Golden Age Hollywood didn’t seem all that predisposed to use the Great White North