It’s a rather cruel irony that a potentially unifying concept, the belief in a higher power, turns out to be one of the most divisive. The list of candidates for the creator of life is
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WFF: National Funny Bone Tickled in QUÉBEXIT
“Canadian democracy is under threat….from democracy.” Separation seems to have become all the wage in the wake of Britain’s infamous egress from the European Union, popularly known as “Brexit”. Not wanting to be left out,
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Possessor Review
Despite my anticipation since its release in October, I was more than a little uneasy when I finally sat down to watch Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor. I am not easily shaken by horrors or violent films
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Review)
The notion of memory is nothing new to cinema, but when it is the central topic of a film, it can be a tricky concept to tackle. For many years Christopher Nolan’s Memento was the
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CLOSING THE GAP: HOCKEY IN NORTH KOREA Review
It’s not every day that a foreign film crew is allowed unfettered access to anything in the “Democratic” People’s Republic of Korea, let alone the country’s National Hockey Team. Back in pre-Covid times, one scrappy
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Freaks – Review
When I was a child, still too young to watch a big chunk of the cinematic greats, my dad would instead distil the narratives of films like Crimson Tide and The Outlaw Josie Wales into
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