Kids have wanted to be stars for as long as they’ve had stars to aspire to be. These days though, the drive to be famous seems to have found a new gear, what with shows like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance? ready to pluck young talent eagerly awaiting their shot and…
I consider myself someone fascinated by history – especially athletic history – and a proud Canadian, so the fact that I knew nothing about Harry Jerome prior to last week was pretty darned shameful. Luckily, MIGHTY JEROME – a fantastic film playing this year’s Hot Docs festival – has arrived to take me from the…
We now interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to talk documentaries… Today begins a special series of my regular Matineecast, talking about all thing festival related. The format will be a little different than usual, namely episodes will be a bit shorter, and sometimes more raw as I won’t be finessing all of them through editing…
In every nowhere town, There are “somewhere” dreams… If you’re like me, you’d give your right arm to be able to pen something that poetic. Well the man responsible for writing it (who never had to give up his right arm) is the subject of LOVE SHINES, a documentary getting its debut at Hot…
