Film
Student film on the silver screen
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Grab some popcorn and head on down to the Capitol Theatre this Thursday for the annual UWindsor Film Festival....
MOVIE REVIEW: The best of Netflix
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When Netflix first arrived in Canada it was hardly worth having because the films available were mostly a mix of documentaries and features that no one had heard of, wanted to see or should see for that matter....
Detroit firefighters take the heat in a new documentary showing in Windsor theatres • photo courtesy detroitfirefilm.org
FILM REVIEW: BURN Waiting for the phoenix to rise
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Burn: A Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit is a visually stunning and emotionally captivating glimpse at the people who fight a neverending fury in their hometown....
3D computer-animated fantasy-comedy Wreck-It Ralph is the 52nd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series • photo courtesy Walt Disney Pictures
MOVIE REVIEW: Wreck-It Ralph
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The pixelated world of video games sets the scene for the latest computer animated visual feast from Disney. Wreck It Ralph is a wonderful ode to the past and present of the virtual world....
Lunarcy! takes a humourous look at moon enthusiasts • photo courtesy We Like Films
MOVIE REVIEW: Lunarcy!
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Moon people. They paint lunar landscapes, hope to live on the moon, claim its ownership and spend decades writing about life on the barren planet. These moon-obsessed folks are the subjects of Lunarcy!, the second feature film and first documentary by Canadian director Simon Ennis. ...
Holy Motors is a strange journey over a couple hours in the shadowy life of Monsieur Oscar from dawn to dusk • photo courtesy Les Films du Losange
FILM REVIEW: Holy Motors
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Holy Motors is a stunning and dark dream world that confronts the senses and intrigues the mind....
Searching for Sugar Man is almost a methaphor for Detroit famous, forgotten, dirty and beautiful • photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
Finding Detroit while Searching for Sugar Man
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On Sunday night, a Swedish/British documentary about a Mexican-American who is famous in South Africa won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, though it really was more of a Detroit documentary....
Do You Concur? Foreign flicks forgotten at Academy Awards
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Amour won the top honour, the Palme d’Or, at the Cannes film festival last year, along with a slew of awards in other competitions. That a film such as Argo rather than Amour won best picture is painstakingly predictable....
FILM REVIEW: Zero Dark Thirty
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Divorced from reality, Zero Dark Thirty is a taught, well-casted thriller. But when CNN already spoiled the ending, it’s hard to enjoy the film knowing that the filmmakers have taken liberalities with the plot....
Motorcity art mecca
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Visitors confronted with Detroit’s blighted neighbourhoods may be quick to generalize the city as abandoned and devoid of opportunity. But those working in creative industries are increasingly calling Detroit home. ...
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