I’m certain that I’m not the only city slicker who has googled the benefits and methods of moving “off the grid”; disconnecting from the trappings, systems, and corruption of modern society in order to commune
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GIRL GONE BAD Review
It’s often quite satisfying to see the hero of a story turn the table on a villain. It’s somewhat less satisfying to see them do it within the first few chapters and, as Harvey Dent
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THEY DON’T PAY ME TO SAY NO: My Life In Film and Television Props
As someone who works in, writes about, and is an all-around fan of the film business, I have devoured many non-fiction books on various aspects of the industry, especially biographies. These have generally been the
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JULY TALK: LOVE LIVES HERE A Beautiful But Unfocused Doc
“Pray For It really belongs to the year 2020 in a weird way…” Unlike the daily news, feature-length documentaries often lag just a step or two behind the zeitgeist, often most useful at looking back
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THIS PLACE Aims High But Falls Short
“Seems like at some point in time, we’ve both been mistaken for Indians…” It’s easy to forget in this increasingly globalized world that for most of human history, people typically lived and worked their whole
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Tax Shelter Movies: NOTHING PERSONAL
As an active follower (and participant) in Canadian Film & TV, I tend to hear a lot of rhetoric bemoaning the constant use of Canada as a “backlot” by Hollywood and that our country would
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