You may not have heard, but two Canuck Hollywood Heavyweights have formed a close working relationship lately. Vancouver’s favorite son Ryan Reynolds teamed up with Montreal-born director Shawn Levy to make last year’s Free Guy,
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TURN & BURN Book Review
I review books sparingly on this site and only started doing so at all about a year ago. Reading carefully through hundreds of pages is a big time commitment that often takes weeks after I
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WIFTV: DONKEYHEAD Effortlessly Mines Family Fractures
It’s rather unfortunate that it often takes a tragedy to bring a fractured family together. How many of us have only seen relatives recently when one of them has passed on? While the ashes of
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UNSILENCED Paints an Incomplete Picture of Persecution
Most of us have already left our seats and are halfway to the exits by the time the end credits of a movie start to roll (unless awaiting a Marvel after-credits scene). But the credit
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SCARBOROUGH Review
The true measure of a society is how it treats its least fortunate and even more importantly, their children. Politicians, policy makers and various experts often debate in dry terms the best ways to alleviate
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HOLLYWOOD’S CANADA: Gene Autry and the Mounties
It’s been quite some time since I’ve written an entry in this series, inspired by Pierre Berton’s immortal tome of the same name. While flipping thru the filmography appendix, I noticed the unofficial prequel to
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