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Definitely A David Cronenberg Film

Guns made out of the bones of animals which shoot bullets made of teeth. Genetically mutated insects which may be the basis of pseudo-alive computer chips. Characters who slowly lose…
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Quick Fix Voodoo Charm

I first met John ("I usually do a phonetic spelling whenever I talk to the press, which is leck-we-ay") L'Ecuyer at his business office cum apartment in downtown Toronto. He…
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Oblivious To Oblivion

I have a theory about funny people. Humour is not something you turn on and off, like a faucet or an indifferent lover. Humour is about how you see and…
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Swallowing Childhood’s Bitter Pills

Do you remember your early adolescence? Those warm summer evenings without a care in the world when anything seemed possible...that small group of emerging friendships that would last a lifetime...your…
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Dem Bones Dem Bones…

When we think of environmental devastation, we usually recall headlines about the vanishing rainforest in Brazil or the toxic wastes of Chernobyl and other legacies of the Communist regime that…
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Lilies: Beyond Euro-pudding

Take a celebrated French-language play by a well known Quebecois playwright. Add an English director noted for his outrageously creative blending of fact, fiction, high melodrama and low comedy. Mix…
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Digital Editing

Introduction Looking at a rough assembly of a scene, you think to yourself, "I should really add an insert of a dog playing a tuba." No problem, the editor tells…
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How To Run a Perfect Audition

Remember what it was like doing a math test in grade five? The stress of cramming? The anxiety waiting to be told to begin? Remember the fear that in the…
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Nailing Down the Ideal Documentary

Sometimes, a documentary film comes along which is so life-affirming that I have to drop all of my journalistic "objectivity" and urge all my friends to go see it. One…