Faith-based movies are an acquired taste. You either love and cheerlead them or loathe and dismiss them. There’s a slim-middle ground that appreciates the message, but can’t help but roll their eyes at the often
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A New Look at the Cosmos with WILFRED BUCK
“This is my reality-fiction…” Science can seem rather cold and uninviting at the best of times. It’s logical, methodical, practical, expressed in precise numbers and opaque language. Almost no one would describe the sciences as
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Tax Shelter Movies: CITY ON FIRE
The disaster movie genre of the 1970s is generally remembered for two things: solid blockbusters with all-star casts (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno) and overstuffed, C-grade dreck starring over-the-hill relics from Hollywood’s golden age.
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FROM NIGHT SHIFT TO RED CARPET: Ten Years In The Vancouver Film Industry
It was the evening of Wednesday, May 14, 2014. I had made my way via Skytrain and express bus from my four-plex in New Westminster to the offices of Finale Editworks (since renamed Picture Shop)
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DOXA- Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
“He went down as Tom and he returned as Tamio. That name shift conveys volumes.” Sometimes it is necessary, even vital to help someone through their own trauma before you can adequately address your own.
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DOXA: Visit the World’s Best Cinema with THE MOVIE MAN
“If I wanted to be successful, I never would’ve stayed in Kinmount and built a theatre…” It seems beyond belief that such a hardcore cineaste such as myself could’ve gone his entire life without at
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