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Winnipeg Folk Fest Interview & Performance: Two Crows for Comfort
Posted by: Paul Little • December 22, 2025 @ 1:43pm
Two Crows for Comfort are a Manitoba folk duo (with roots and country leanings) who spend a good chunk of their year touring around North America with their dog in tow. The incredible harmonies and storytelling from this real-life couple are up there with some of the best duos making their style of music anywhere on the planet.
Intense. Stunning. Phenomenal. List pretty much any praising adjective to describe Gravity and the acclaim is warranted.
Nearing the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination its not a huge shock for Hollywood to coordinate yet another film dramatizing the American tragedy around the milestone.
This summer's biggest... no scratch that. This year's biggest box office success has now arrived on home video.
"Everything good?" - Ed (Robert Forster) "Define good." - Saul (Bob Odenkirk)
A red minivan pulls into the parking lot of Best Quality Vacuum. We know this minivan. It is the same one that Walt jumped into at the conclusion of last week's "Ozymandias". The driver, Ed (Robert Forster) opens the door.
A little over a week ago the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival ended so what better time to ruminate on the good and the bad. And what better way to do so than create a "best and worst" list? (Sure, lists are reductive to the point of absurdity, they force an arbitrary ranking system, I usually come to regret them at some point, etc., etc.
TIFF 2013 Interview: Director & cast of The Dick Knost Show
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 15, 2013 @ 8:30am
In all the hubbub of the Toronto International Film Festival, sometimes it's easy to forget where you are. Amidst the wall of people crowding the streets, the buzz of foreign languages, and Hollywood celebrities emerging from black SUV's you might be at any major world film festival.
TIFF 2013 Interview: Director Pirjo Honkasalo
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 13, 2013 @ 4:06pm
A teenage boy stares at his reflection in a fogged mirror shrouded in darkness. Moments later the same boy watches a train derail off a bridge. Then he is trapped in one of the train's cars as it fills with water. He impotently slams his hands against the ceiling in an attempt to free himself.
Earlier this summer, Netflix brought Arrested Development back from the dead and now, they turn their powers of resurrection to another, less known comedy character, a friendly English bloke, named Derek. Created by Ricky Gervais as a one-off character for The 11 O'Clock Show, Derek has always had a million dollar heart and ten dollar brain.
In 1965, the Indonesian military over-threw their government, allowing small time gangsters like Anwar Congo to rise in society. He was promoted from scalping movie tickets to leading a death squad that helped the military kill more than a million people, many of whom were alleged communists.
When we first meet Nathan Flomm, he is sailing down a California highway in a luxury convertible, blasting Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4". Singing along, he bobs his head-- seemingly content with his life. Little does he know, he is mere hours away from ruining that very life.
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