In an interview with The Guardian early last year, David Cronenberg, to the dismay of many, reiterated his words from the Venice Film Festival, in that while he was working on getting a number of
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How Accurate is The Last Casino’s Retelling of MIT Card Counters?
The Last Casino is the Canadian telling of the group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students turned Blackjack players from 1979 through the 1990s. Released in 2004, the movie is directed by Pierre Gill and
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City and Mortal Kombat Could Be the Video Game Movies We’ve Been Waiting For, and Both Feature Canadian Actors
Yesterday, the title of the cinematic reboot for video game developer Capcom’s genre-defining series, Resident Evil, was revealed, and…it’s a little underwhelming. To be fair, while its subtitle of Welcome to Racoon City hardly screams
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Best Gambling Movies Made in Canada
If you are looking for gambling movies, you likely love gambling games a lot that you think about them every single time. We love spending our time and money on the things and people we
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Allan Moyle’s Pump Up the Volume is the Ultimate Generation X Film
Say what you will, but it is no easy task for a film to capture the mood of its time. Sure, the likes Fight Club and The Social Network, both directed by David Fincher, and
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Christopher Plummer Best Movies
Christopher Plummer, Oscar winner and Hollywood icon, passed away. In a long and storied career that lasted over seventy years, he left an indelible mark. He was the leading man in cinematic lore tent poles
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