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Category: festivals

Coverage of TIFF, Hot Docs, NXNE, and Toronto After Dark

festivals, hot docs, reactions

LIVING THE GAME plays Hot Docs 2017

Do you play to live, or live to play?

Posted on May 3, 2017June 5, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

78/52 plays Hot Docs 2017

It can’t hurt you…it’s only a movie. A 57 year old movie…about a vicious crime

Posted on May 2, 2017May 6, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE FORCE plays Hot Docs 2017

What will it take for America to restore order within the law?

Posted on May 1, 2017May 6, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

WHITE WALLS SAY NOTHING plays Hot Docs 2017

Some see a concrete wall; A select few see a statement waiting to be made.

Posted on April 30, 2017May 6, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

FLAMES plays Hot Docs 2017

Look through the smoke and flames of what so many of us have burned

Posted on April 30, 2017May 6, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

PACMEN plays Hot Docs 2017

A documentary to answer the eternal question: Who the hell finds these candidates?

Posted on April 29, 2017May 2, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

RAMEN HEADS plays Hot Docs 2017

From the first simmer to the final slurp, passion inspires passion.

Posted on April 28, 2017May 2, 2017
festivals, hot docs, reactions

GILBERT plays Hot Docs 2017

As Hot Docs 2017 Begins, It’s Time to Pay Some Attention to The Man Behind The Curtain.

Posted on April 27, 2017May 1, 2017
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF

Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2016 pt. iii

Andrew and Douglas join me at The Fox as TIFF 2016 coverage concludes.

Posted on September 18, 2016September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

OKAFOR’S LAW plays TIFF 2016

If boys will be boys, what does it take to grow into a man?

Posted on September 18, 2016November 8, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE EMPTY BOX plays TIFF 2016

No matter how much we think we are ready for the end, we so seldom are.

Posted on September 18, 2016September 26, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

BELOW HER MOUTH plays TIFF 2016

April Mullen presents a pretty picture about love, sex, and the blank spaces in-between.

Posted on September 17, 2016September 24, 2016

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