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Universal Language 2024
At times much too surrealist for my taste, l was nonetheless taken aback by how incredibly well Universal Language‘s gags, visuals, narrative, and tone capture a part of Winnipeg’s unique spirit.
For this particular forlorn expatriate, Universal Language reinforced what Winnipeg is all about: finding beauty in brutalist architecture and congested highways, colour in a sea of grey concrete and snow, culture in chain coffee shops, soul in bureaucracy, excitement in the bland and in Bingo, pride in the ordinary,…
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H2O 2004
I wanted to dismiss this as the cringiest political Canadiana garbage ever, but then I remembered that The Best Laid Plans and those white-washed John A. Macdonald Heritage Minutes exist... H2O manages to showcase both the worst that CBC-produced, made-for-TV has to offer and the tragically untapped potential of a great Canadian political drama, à la Borgen.
H2O is so very CBC entertainment: poorly produced, edited, and written; publicly funded, yet inaccessible except through pirating or Amazon; utterly forgotten, despite…
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My Old Ass 2024
A heartwarming mashup of some favourite tropes: cottage-core + That One Summer + My Older Self & Me + Better to have Loved & Lost. Also super relatable because I too have had drug-fuelled imaginary conversations with past and future versions of myself.
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Canadian Bacon 1995
Fitting that the ultimate villain after the Cold War is the American military industrial complex. Great satire, weak movie.
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The Dark Crystal 1982
Enjoying the magic of filmmaking was a big part of my trip to New Zealand. We watched our fair share of kiwi cinema and obviously explored all sorts of The Lord of the Rings sets and film locations. But we also tried out Weta Workshop’s tourist offerings, including the “Weta Workshop Unleashed” experience which, through a tour of the sets for three fictional movies, showcases the behind the scenes creative and technical process of developing a film’s special effects, props,…
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The Hunt for Red October 1990
“Damnit Jim, I’m an analyst, not a submariner!”
Submarines are to the Cold War, what submarines are to cinema, and The Hunt for Red October may just be the most submarine of all the submarine movies.
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