Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story’

Festival Coverage, Hot Docs 2024, Movies ‐ ‐ April 27, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story’

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story is a straightforward retelling of the life of its titular musical trans trailblazer. Although credit is due to how it starts in the middle, when Jackie Shane took her last bow after performing in Toronto in 1971. Where did Ms. Shane go after that last performance at the […]

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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Xixi’

Festival Coverage, Hot Docs 2024, Movies ‐ ‐ April 27, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Xixi’

“Some people never settle” is an adage that applies to some people, including the titular subject in Fan Wu’s Xixi. The first seeds of this project come from a chance meeting between the director and subject in China. As Xixi, a performance artist, marries a French engineer, Mederic, they keep in touch through tons of […]

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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘7 Beats Per Minute’

Festival Coverage, Hot Docs 2024, Movies ‐ ‐ April 26, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘7 Beats Per Minute’

Jessea Lu is a shadow under the sea, trying to swim back up to the surface. Yuqi Kang’s new documentary depicts that moment, one of many that captures her participation within the sport that is freestyle diving. Yes, this is not the first documentary about the sport, coming out of the shadow of The Deepest […]

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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Wilfred Buck’

Festival Coverage, Hot Docs 2024, Movies ‐ ‐ April 26, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Wilfred Buck’

Lisa Jackson’s latest documentary Wilfred Buck captures several moments in the life of its subject, a Cree astronomer. Taking bits from his memoir, reenactments show moments like a wolf scaring him away so he won’t be part of the Scoop. The general segments showing his past life show him persevering through losing his family members. […]

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ENTER FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING TO SEE ‘KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES’ BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!!!

Giveaways/Contests, Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ April 25, 2024
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ENTER FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING TO SEE ‘KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES’ BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!!!

Evolution always finds a way… Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that […]

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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Singing Back the Buffalo’

Festival Coverage, Hot Docs 2024, Movies ‐ ‐ April 25, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Singing Back the Buffalo’

“We have the songs, we have the stories, but we don’t have the Buffalo” In Indigenous traditions, the Buffalo symbolizes respect, as it gives all parts of itself to sustain the lives of the people, as not to limit its own value, but rather to find balance between itself and the needs of others. Tasha […]

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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘A Mother Apart’

Festival Coverage, Hot Docs 2024, Movies ‐ ‐ April 25, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘A Mother Apart’

Many people, I assume, live many lifetimes in one, but that is especially true about poet and mother Staceyann Chin. As a university student in Kingston, Jamaica, she experienced intimidation that targets her as a 2SLGBT+ woman. After that harrowing experience, she moved to New York, eventually writing and performing poetry for people like the […]

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Catalysts: Our Review of ‘Alam’ on Film Movement

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 24, 2024
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Catalysts: Our Review of ‘Alam’ on Film Movement

Palestinians, especially according to European colonists in the Apartheid State, are a collective with a political mind. This runs in contrast with films that actually give Palestinians a voice like Firas Khoury’s Alam. The film’s elevator pitch is that its protagonist, Tamer (Mahmood Bakri), starts out as an apolitical person. The teen then wakes up […]

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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘An Unfinished Journey’

Festival Coverage, Hot Docs 2024, Movies ‐ ‐ April 24, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘An Unfinished Journey’

A female Afghan MP, Zefnoon Safi, looks out the window of her comfortable hotel room in Calgary, Alberta. She watches a flock of birds fly away, an image viewers might associate with a freedom humans don’t have. She is one of a few female Afghan politicians and journalists who had to leave Afghanistan after its […]

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‘The Big Door Prize’: Getting the Scoop from the Stars on Season 2

Apple TV +, Interviews ‐ ‐ April 23, 2024
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‘The Big Door Prize’: Getting the Scoop from the Stars on Season 2

Prepare to unravel more mysteries of The Big Door Prize! The Big Door Prize is the critically acclaimed series from Emmy Award-winning creator and Torontonian David West Read (Schitt’s Creek). Based on M.O. Walsh’s novel, The Big Door Prize‘s second season follows the residents of Deerfield. This tima around, the Morpho machine gets them ready […]

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