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
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DOXA 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
Continue ReadingDOXA: LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL Review
“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
Continue ReadingNIGHT BLOOMS Review
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
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