I thought I’d get a little more into detail about what happens in Sleeping Giant as it was probably the best movie I’ve seen so far. Like all adolescence-based movies, we start with our protagonist
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VIFF (Day 7) Regaining Brain Power
Just realized I might’ve thrown off a few people with the titles of the last two articles I wrote. I managed to cool down with a slight break after three movies. Aimed strictly for some
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VIFF (Day 6) Conflicts and Such
One of the biggest issues I’ve come across is the fact that some of the good movies are playing simunltaneously at different theatres. In the end, the choice depends on which is closer, or in
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VIFF (Days 2-4)
Quite the movie packed weekend for me; I went to multiple theatres, watching movies at random and seeing what they were like (the advantages of having a festival pass to all screenings.) Golden Kingdom –
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Brooklyn (Review)
Like they say in Brooklyn… Wait, what do they say? In the 1950s, a young Irish woman named Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) is given the special opportunity to work in the United States, specifically New York. After
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Films About Hurting, Walk of Fame, and Bits of VIFF
With Hurt, Alan Zweig’s doc on Steve Fonyo, set to play at VIFF on Wednesday, The Vancouver Province’s Glen Schaefer talks to the film’s subject at his “temporary home” in Metro Vancouver. Sadly, the movie
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