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Mark Wahlberg stars in the fact-based action adventure film Deepwater Horizon although it seems strange to a film about a devastating ecological disaster and deadly oil rig explosion “action adventure”. Hardly seems like an adventure a person would want to take. The full environmental effects of …
Continue Reading about True, crazy and wildly entertaining films this week! | by Anne Brodie
It’s Only the End of the World has just been named Canada’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award! The latest film from Canada’s youngest auteur, Xavier Dolan also won two prizes at Cannes and its finally opening in theatres. Dolan’s emotionally rigorous study of a young man …
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Ten days of screenings, special public events, master classes, question and answer sessions, meet-and-greets, red carpets, parties, press conferences, junkets, the almighty barbeque and people watching have come to a close. One thing remains for #TIFF16 - the presentation of the awards! TIFF’s Piers …
With 75% of Canadian women being a size eight and up, it is now more than ever that the media landscape needs curvy women on the scene. Body acceptance and fat shaming have been all over the news in 2016, with the extremely thin, Selena Gomez, being called ‘fat’ in photos taken while on vacation and …
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Maudie (Dir. Aisling Walsh) Nova Scotia primitive artists Maud Lewis’ was born “crooked” and in some ways it shaped her destiny. She was treated like an outcast in her small village and a slave by her aunt who kept her against her will, but didn’t want her. Maud was fiercely independent and had a …
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