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 the explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 are still… View Post
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 (Gaspard Ulliel) returning home to his family after a 12… View Post
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 Handling and Cameron Bailey announced the best of the best today at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto…. View Post
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 Ashley Graham, a plus-size… View Post
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 lot of smarts and common sense,… View Post
The War on Drugs must end. Its fundamental objective has been stymied: suppression of the drug trade. To the contrary, many aspects of that trade have flourished. A worldwide illegal market, dominated by gangsters, abounds, with only sporadic and limited interference by national and international authorities. The War has also imposed great social and human costs: massive imprisonment, tinged by… View Post