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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.
Director Sam Raimi has managed to trump the original Spider-Man film with a sequel whose action and dramatic elements transcend the extreme competence of the first.
Okay I'll admit it, I've never been a fan of Spider-Man. In my comic book reading days I was more a DC Comics kind of guy, preferring Batman and Superman over the web-slinging Spider-Man. That's not to say that I didn't like Spider-Man or read the occasional book, because I did (working in a comic book store means you kind of have to), but he never topped my list.
"The temperature where freedom burns!"
The documentary (if you can call it that) that stunned audiences at Cannes and has split opinions of future American voters is getting ready to burst into theatres.
The fourth theatrical documentary released from edgy director Michael Moore opens with the controversial Florida vote in the 2000 election that saw incumbent George W.
Author Nicholas Sparks, who brought us "Message in a Bottle" and "A Walk to Remember", once more unravels his written cloth to unveil another romantic melodrama.
James Garner stars as an elderly man who likes nothing more than to tell a story to a fellow retirement home resident (Gena Rowlands).
Noah (Ryan Gosling) was a country boy. Allie (Rachel McAdams) was from the city. The two lived very different lives and under normal circumstances probably never would have met. Noah, a man of extreme simple pleasures, worked at the lumber yard for 40 cents an hour, while Allie went to a fancy school, had all of life's amenities, and summered in the small town of Seabrook, North Carolina.
What can be said about filmmaker Michael Moore that hasn't been said time and time again? Responsible for the films Roger and Me and the highly controversial Bowling for Columbine, this documentarian has never shyed away from creating controversy. His Oscar speech for Columbine offered up a rant against U.S. President George W.
Have you ever begun watching a new television show at the beginning of the fall season and become immediately hooked? What makes that show appeal to you? Is it an actor or actress? Is it the show's writing? Or are you hooked because everyone at work talks about it by the proverbial water cooler?
I am not talking about a show that goes on for 10 seasons and becomes part of nost
Interview: On the Corner director Nathaniel Geary and star JR Bourne
Posted by: Mark McLeod • June 19, 2004 @ 12:00am
2003 was a banner year for my career as a writer. The month was October and I had been in the middle of my first full fledged Film Festival experience, having only gone to the odd show a year earlier. There would be days when I'd see two or three films back to back with very little downtime and then spend the night covering a Hollywood feature.
For the past five years, Angel Henry (Alex Rice) has lived a life of prostitution and drugs on the streets of Vancouver's downtown east side. She lives in a rundown, rent-by-the-month room at the Portland hotel where she and her friend Stacey (Katherine Isabelle) exist day to day by prostituting themselves out to various johns who find them "On the Corner".
Can you possibly imagine what it is like to be a person who doesn't exist? A freak of nature that has slipped through the cracks of our society.
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