If you follow world events then you may be aware of the Israel/Palestine conflict. In the aftermath of suicide bombings and no resolution in sight to stop the violence, Israel has built a wall dividing
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Days to Remember
19 Days, a short (half-hour) documentary about refugees at at the Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre in Calgary, is streaming free at the NFB site, the ever well-informed Eric Volmers of The Calgary Herald reports. The
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Juke-Bar (Review)
While Indieflix has run dry for me, I’ve had to find an alternative. I thought “Hey, maybe I won’t get so much weirdness now that Traveling is out of my reviews.” Boy, was I wrong.
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Bate’s Car: Sweet as a Nut (Review)
Well, since everything else I tried to look at today was too weird to transcribe, I went for something a little more simple sounding and ancient. As one may have guessed, this is a film
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Karate Kids (Review)
Derek Lamb’s Karate Kids wasn’t what I expected. Back in the 1990s there were films aimed at young audiences which focused on topics considered too extreme for kids nowadays. Taking place in a generic third
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Wild Life (Review)
Yeehaw! Git along now, pardners! It’s not often I come across a short that happens to be done in Western style. This here quaint lil cartoon takes place in 1909 Alberta at what seems like
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