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A Critic Goes to the Leo Awards

June 12, 2018June 12, 2018Awards#LeoAwards18, A Gift to Remember, Ali Liebert, Black Kite, Brent Butt, Christmas Princess, Leo Awards, Leos, Nancy Robertson, Prodigals, Rupture, Sara Canning

Los Angeles has the Oscars and Toronto has the Canadian Screen Awards, but here in Vancouver, the red carpet rolled out for three nights of the LEO AWARDS, now celebrating their 20th edition since their inception

CANCON SEQUELS: Down The Road Again – Review

June 5, 2018March 2, 2020ReviewCancon Sequels, Cayle Chernin, Dob Shebib, Doug McGrath, Down the Road Again, Jayne Eastwood, Kathleen Robertson

It is often said that you can never go home again. But if one does venture back down memory lane, they may find more than just the ghosts of their past. In 1970, Pete McGraw

CANCON SEQUELS: Goin’ Down The Road – Review

May 29, 2018March 2, 2020ReviewCancon Sequels, Don Shebib, Doug McGrath, Goin' Down the Road, Jayne Eastwood, Paul Bradley

I was relatively unfamiliar with Canadian cinema titles growing up. While there was plenty of Cancon on television due to CRTC rules, the big screen and our family VHS collection remained bare of any production

Deadpool 2 – Review

May 22, 2018February 5, 2020ReviewDavid Leitch, Deadpool 2, Eddie Marsan, Josh Brolin, Julien Dennison, Ryan Reynolds

Wade Wilson sure has come a long way since his unfortunate rendering in 2009’s X-Men-Origins: Wolverine. At the time, the legendary “merc with a mouth” was reduced to a mute Frankenstein-esque henchman who was promptly

No Fun City – Review

May 15, 2018March 2, 2020Documentaries, ReviewKate Kroll, Melissa James, No Fun City

Beneath the gleaming glass towers and majestic mountain views of Vancouver lies a considerably dirtier, grungier and wilder subculture of underground and barely legal punk rock mania. Well, at least thats the case in the

DOXA: No Man’s Land – Review

May 8, 2018May 27, 2018Documentaries, ReviewDavid Byar, DOXA, No Man's Land

At what point does a political protest cross the line into domestic terrorism? Anyone whose seen the vandalism and violence perpetrated against dissenters and journalists by groups like ANTIFA know the line can very quickly