It was the “smirk” heard ’round the world. On January 2019, Nicholas Sandmann, a 16-year-old student at the Covington Catholic High School, defiantly stared down a Native American Elder, Nathan Phillips, as he drummed a
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BONE CAGE Traps the Audience for 90 Meandering Minutes
Did you ever hear that story about the small-town boy who was dissatisfied with his circumstances and wanted to get out of dodge for a brighter future, only to have current relationships and circumstances hold
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RYAN’S BABE: Proof That Aliens Exist
“God’s tried me a thousand ways…” There is a subset of filmmakers that garner very little attention, even in cult-film circles. They have vague origins, even vaguer sources of funding and possess only a rough
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Forgotten History Resurrected in VITAGRAPH
It has been estimated that around 75% of all American silent movies have been lost to history, and that’s just the feature films. The reasons range from studio apathy where some films were literally destroyed
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Behind the Facade – Series Mini-Review
There’s lots of buildings in the province of BC. Well, there’s lots of buildings where I’m at currently because Vancouver nowadays is nothing but buildings. Apartment buildings. And wide stretches of concrete. Pretty much what
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TRIGGER POINT Hits Mediocrity and Not Much Else
I’ve written much about the current state of Canadian Content (or CANCON) in my time on this site. I most recently laid out my feelings in an article two weeks ago. With a bill to
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