With its 35th anniversary having come and gone on July 3rd, there is no better time to revisit the bona fide classic that is Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future. A staple of ‘80s American
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The Perils of Pre-Covid Quarantine in ALONE WOLF
I can’t help but imagine how the protagonist of Charles Ehrlinger’s suburban thriller Alone Wolf would have handled the pandemic and social unrest that have so far marked 2020. He’d probably need an underground bunker
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2 Below 0 is silliness in the snow
Lately, weather around here has been a mix of hot and cold. But I wouldn’t know too much regarding weather since I barely step outside these days. But with the hot sticky weather approaching, sometimes
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DOXA: Late Documentarian Offered Trial and Tribute in WINTOPIA
“I don’t know how to make this the hopeful film my dad intended it to be.” bemoans Mira Burt-Wintonick as she sifts through 300+ tapes of an unfinished project left behind by her father, the
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The Brood (Review)
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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