In 1969, there were three music festivals that changed the trajectory of the world’s music scene. On September 13, one month after Woodstock, a couple of months before Altamont “The Toronto Rock ’n’ Revival” concert brought together
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WFF: BOY CITY a Curiously Off-key Satire
“What if the world’s greatest boy band was a group of grown-ass men?” I mean, most “boy bands” are legally adults by the time they break out, but they’re usually in their late teens-mid twenties
Continue ReadingWFF: EXILE Leaves Audience Lost in the Woods
We’re all closer to the brink of madness than we’d care to admit and it can take merely the slightest of bad decisions to push us over the brink. The protagonist of Jason James’ latest
Continue ReadingBack Home Sends you on a journey of discovery
It’s interesting what lengths you have to go to figure out somebody’s life story, especially when they’re in your family and don’t know everything you expected to know about them. Just ask Nisha Platzer. She
Continue ReadingTHE MANNY: Certainly Tubi, But Hardly an “Original”
I’ve worked in post-production on the humble “Movie-of-the-Week” (MOW), the workhorse of the Canadian film/TV industry for many years now. I’ve seen them shot, assembled, re-worked, mixed, and scored as they evolve into products for
Continue ReadingSCOOPING UP ROSIE
We’ve seen this type of story before. Whether it was from the funny pages in the 1930’s newspapers with the story of little Orphan Annie or a more modernized take on the subject with the
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