Reading Time: 4 minutes Hayao Miyazaki is brilliant, inspired, outspoken and unconventional. It’s a combination that makes for remarkable films
Tag: Movies
Tax the Internet in the name of Canadian culture?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian production is booming. It hardly needs more official intervention – and funding – to continue to grow
The message matters: we are what we watch and listen to
Reading Time: 3 minutes We focus too much on things that really don’t matter. Life is not all about domination, money and having a particular body type
Time for #MeToo to shift to the #IRegret movement
Reading Time: 3 minutes The focus on consent has made men all over the world stop and think. Am I one of those men?
Movie musical Grease turns 40 this summer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forty years after its release, the movie poses a conundrum for those disposed to view everything through an ideologically-tinted lens
The complexity, nuance and truth at the heart of residential schools
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s instructive that no credible alternative to the residential schools has ever been put forward
A gentle giant of a man, a larger-than-life icon
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new documentary about pro wrestler André the Giant paints an engrossing portrait
The crisis of diversity in the super hero realm
Reading Time: 3 minutes Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s Daycare Dynamo of the Social Justice Warriors
Did Chappaquiddick kill Kennedy’s White House ambitions?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mary Jo Kopechne’s death was sensational, but justice was never truly done and far too many questions remain unanswered
Heroes and villains: how history picks the winners
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Second World War movie Darkest Hour raises questions about perspective and reality