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
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DOXA: 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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DOXA: 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
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NIGHT 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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Small-Town Spook – Review on Godforsaken
I heard the voice of Jesus say… some stuff that was probably important, if I could remember it. Miracles are a frequently discussed term in discussions but they rarely happen. Some history in my family
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 Hits a High Score
After nearly being derailed by early fan backlash to its lead character design, Sonic the Hedgehog went on to arguably become the final theatrical box office success before the COVID pandemic shuttered theaters for months,
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