As I gradually make my way through the great David Cronenberg’s filmography, the journey this week has led me to his 1979 feature, The Brood, one of Cronenberg’s most controversial films in his storied career.
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DOXA: THE END FROM HERE Makes Molehills Among Mountains
Growing up in Northern British Columbia, I had a baseball cap adorned with a cartoon ghost and captioned “Hyder, Alaska”, one of many ghost towns in North America’s post-industrial era. My parents told me we
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Alita: Battle Angel Review
A passion project of filmmaker extraordinaire James Cameron since the 1990s, Alita: Battle Angel released in February last 2019 to much anticipation. It is the long-awaited adaptation of Japanese manga series Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro,
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DOXA: Doc a Delightful Invitation to EDDY’S KINGDOM
With all the tax dollars poured into stale re-creations of Canadian history on CBC and other CANCON broadcasters, you have to wonder how they managed to miss the riveting adventures of Eddy Haymour. It might
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Shut Up Sona Speaks on Behalf of Artists Everywhere
Artists and Filmmakers are generally misunderstood almost anywhere and everywhere. I of all people should know. Art comes in many forms, like pictures, movies, games (in a sense) and even music. Which is the subject
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First Round Down Serves a Slap-Shot of Story
In this pandemic, I mostly get documentary screeners for reviews, which gets kind of redundant after a while. It’s lucky if I get something different. So I got a rare opportunity to check something out
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