Review

Flashing Back to Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

May 17, 2022May 16, 2022ReviewCrimes of the Future, David Cronenberg, Ronald Mlodzik

Following his 2014 Hollywood satire, Maps to the Stars, legendary Canadian film director David Cronenberg seemed intent on retiring from active filmmaking due to apparent difficulty in obtaining financing in a turbulent feature film market

DOXA Twoview

May 12, 2022May 3, 2022Festivals, ReviewDear Jackie, DOXA, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, We Feed People

Shaun has done a little bit of DOXA in a review, and now so am I. So here is a double on two documentaries I saw at DOXA this year. Dear Jackie – Starting out

DOXA: WE DON’T DANCE FOR NOTHING

May 10, 2022May 9, 2022ReviewDOXA, Gratiano Wong, Juliana Wong, Miles Sible, We Don't Dance for Nothing

I was fortunate enough to visit Hong Kong before both the pandemic and the 2019 Freedom protests that rocked the former island colony to its core. I observed many things while there: dense urbanism, endless

DOXA: DOUG AND THE SLUGS AND ME Review

May 3, 2022May 2, 2022ReviewDoug and the Slugs and Me, DOXA, Tersa Alfeld

I haven’t listened to the radio regularly in years and I don’t mean just Top 40 either. All the adult contemporary and “favorites” FM stations seemed hell bent on playing the same handful of earworms

DOXA: LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL Review

April 26, 2022April 25, 2022ReviewDOXA, Love in the Time of Fentanyl

“The only difference between you and I is one bad decision.” Even with more recent public health (and climate) crises occupying headline space, the ongoing Opioid crisis continues to simmer in the Vancouver psyche. Every

NIGHT BLOOMS Review

April 12, 2022April 11, 2022ReviewAlexandra McDonald, Jessica Clement, Nick Stahl, Night Blooms

It’s a difficult task for a storyteller to take a modern forbidden love story and not sensationalise the hell out of it. Whether for a Lifetime movie-of-the-week or a true-life Netflix doc, it’s difficult to