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Insightful Commentary from and on the Canadian Film World

Cult Actor Michael Ironside’s Top Roles

February 28, 2022March 24, 2022ActorsMichael Ironside, Scanners, Terminator Salvation, Total Recall

Canada has produced some great actors. In fact, some of the biggest leading men in Hollywood today were born in the Great White North. Blockbuster favourites, such as Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds, being the

Body Horrors: Five Interesting Body Horrors by David Cronenberg, the Acknowledged Master of Outrageous and Horror

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021FilmmakersDavid Cronenberg, Rabid, Scanners, Shivers, The Brood, Videodrome

Some things are as popular as the games at Avalon78 Casino Canada, and some things, like a good movie, last forever. It is not subject to time and fashion, it always finds new fans and

My Top 5 Canadian Cult Movies

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020OpinionBlack Christmas, Canadian Cult Movies, Cube, Ginger Snaps, Hard Core Logo, Scanners

If cinema is an art form, then film is an industry. If both were represented as circles lightly overlapping one another, cult movies would occupy that sliver of no-man’s land where they meet. At its

Scanners (Review)

January 11, 2017July 31, 2019ReviewDavid Cronenberg, Michael Ironside, Scanners, Stephen Lack

My viewing of David Cronenberg’s catalogue of films has been anything but sequential. In fact, I have almost unconsciously been watching a number of his films in backwards order, which has inadvertently offered an interesting

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