Aside from entertainment value, movies often function as a needed reflection of our own circumstances, showing us clearly what might not seem immediately obvious from our limited point of view. They can put our fears
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More Sides to the Story than you think – Review on Marlene
What is it like when you try to get the truth out there? When are reports 100% accurate? Perhaps you know more than the authorities. There have been a lot of cases where somebody has
Continue ReadingFlashing Back to Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
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
Continue ReadingDOXA Twoview
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
Continue ReadingDOXA: 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
Continue ReadingDOXA: DOUG AND THE SLUGS AND ME Review
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
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