Nick de Pencier’s disturbing documentary Black Code based on Prof. Ronald J. Deibert’s book Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace looks at the elevated state of digital surveillance in the world today. Deibert, Director of the U of T’s Citizen Lab dedicated to researching and reporting on human rights abuses and global affairs associated with digital surveillance says governments,… View Post
The Fate of the Furious (or #F8 if you’re cool) is the latest all adrenaline, all action franchise, fan boy fodder. The franchise tragically lost Paul Walker who died in 2013 but here he is in #F8 deciding to retire, along with Mia. Big Daddy Vin Diesel’s character betrays the gang which makes zero sense even if it is Charlize… View Post
Barb – your story of searching for ways to make life better for war weary Afghans is incredibly inspiring. You’ve created an actual antidote to despair. We follow your journey in the commentary but how hard was it? It wasn’t hard to take the risks from putting it on my visa card and launching out of my garage to… View Post
Fargo, one of the most consistently superior and celebrated TV series these days is finally back for Season Three following a two year wait . Ewan McGregor, the second British actor to play the lead in three seasons, with Martin Freeman in the first series, plays a rather astonishing dual role. He is businessman and family man Emmit Stussy… View Post
Terrence Malick has been my favourite filmmaker since Days of Heaven in 78. Malick wrote and directed only twelve features since 1973, the classic era of four films from Badlands to The Tree of Life. From 2012, Malick started churning them out – six films in five years. Malick’s classic films are jewels, set in nature, alive with vivid human… View Post
Berlin, in the middle years of World War II was a place of outer strength and inner fear. Ordinary Germans were beginning to realize that Hitler’s monstrous policies had to be stopped but it was not possible to rally opposition. To step out of line against the Nazi regime was a death sentence. One working class couple Anna and Otto… View Post