VIFF 2011 preview
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead After a decade of covering documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival (September 29 to October 14 this year), … Read more
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Coming-of-age stories
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead Growing up is painful enough. Growing up during a war really hurts. That’s the thrust of rites-of-passage drama Winter in … Read more
Inside Job a horror story
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead The face of the financial crisis has taken many forms, from people lining up outside banks desperate to get … Read more
VIFF’s eco docs
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead It seems more like a decade than a year since VIFF last came round. Make that two decades. With … Read more
Decadence – A meandering walk on the wild side
by Geoff Olson Just after receiving her Academy Award for best actress this past March, Sandra Bullock discovered her husband, Jesse James, had been cheating … Read more
Irish animation illuminates ancient secret
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead The Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, running April 9 to 16 in Vancouver, was established in … Read more
Tough coming of age stories
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead Fish Tank (out on March 12) is one of those gritty, working class, Brit flicks that makes few concessions to … Read more
Cuba: creative, complex and contradictory
by Geoff Olson … If we followed the way of possessions, we would have disappeared a long time ago. We Cubans are very fortunate. In … Read more