Made by Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin, Broken Angel is an intense film with a powerful message about so many things, family roots, PTSD, coming of age, and domestic abuse. Amazing how one movie can focus
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Tax Shelter Movies: SHIVERS
Last week, I wrote at length about Canadian cinema’s “Tax Shelter Era” which ran from 1974-1982 and encompassed those movies in which investors could claim 100% of their investment in a film for tax purposes.
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Teresa’s next door neighbour, Doug & The Slugs
Director Teresa Alfeld’s very personal film, “Doug and the Slugs and Me” follow the rise, fall and legacy of the 1980’s band led by singer Doug Bennett, who happened to be her Vancouver neighbour when she was
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When Time Got Louder (VIFF Review)
I’ve seen a fair amount of content at VIFF this year and most of It was okay. But there was one film that stood out more than most. And it’s this one. It’s a film
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VIFF: UNTIL BRANCHES BEND Mines Rural Angst
It’s quite lonely out there for the whistleblower. The price of doing the right thing often incurs the wrath not only of the perpetrator, but of the very people the whistleblower is sounding the alarm
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Plan 75 shows a new level of pain – VIFF Review
Suicide is the worst way to go. Elderly suicide is a negative thing in itself, even being used in a not-so-good Simpsons episode. As the audience struggled to get seated as this was a popular
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