When director Jason DaSilva is suddenly stricken with a severe form of multiple sclerosis, everything changes. Everything about his exterior reality becomes more difficult – and sometimes impossible – and is in constant battle with his internal reality, which feels as though he should still be able to do all the things he could…
Author: marajade29sm
Hot Docs: The Ghosts In Our Machine – Liz Marshall
Jo-Anne McArthur is a talented and passionate photographer with a determination and drive rarely seen in people at all, let alone in someone so young. McArthur is also an activist, and uses her photographic skills to document and share her empathetic view of animals in captivity. From the appalling conditions of slaughterhouses and factory…
Hot Docs: Last Woman Standing – Lorraine Price and Juliet Lammers
The film opens with three important facts. Women’s Boxing has been added as an official medal event at the 2012 Olympics for the first time in history. The world’s two best female boxers reside in Canada. Only one can be selected to compete for Olympic gold. All that in itself would make for a captivating…
Bomb Girls – Sue’s Letter
I want to open this note with first an enormous thank you – to all of you – for the two seasons that you’ve given us of Bomb Girls, and for the 2 hour movie special that has been announced for 2014. I’ve been a fan and supporter of the show from Day One,…
Bomb Girls – Don’t Let Go
On every occasion, Tim does the heartfelt and wonderfully-worded write-ups to each of our our beloved Bomb Girls episodes. So close to the end, now, I feel it is only proper that he should also do the final two posts of the series. However, upon learning yesterday that our girls will not see a Season…
Last Week In Television (April 14-20)
Recently, I decided to make a list of all the shows that regularly grace my television screen, just to see how many there actually are. Not every show airs during the same parts of the year, so I’m obviously not watching every single show, every single week. I’m not even sure that would be possible,…
ReelWorld Film Fest: Cairo 678 – Mohamed Diab
Every so often, I deliberately choose to do something that I know is going to frighten, upset or otherwise unsettle me, but I usually do it anyway. Call it challenge, call it growth…call it stupid, if you want. But I do it. Most often, this pushing of myself comes in the form of a book…
ReelWorld Film Festival: Sunset Stories – Ernesto Foronda and Silas Howard
Sunset Stories is a refreshing mix of several different genres of film, which manages to encapsulate bits of everything, without ever becoming too much of one thing. It’s first and foremost a comedy (a dark comedy, given the subject matter), but it’s evident from the very start that it’s also full of heart. There’s…
ReelWorld: La Playa D.C. – Juan Andres Arango
Tomas (Luis Carlos Guevara) and his troubled younger brother, Jairo (Andres Murillo), live with their mother (along with her current partner and their baby) in the sprawling city of Bogota, Colombia. Despite losing their father in the small but violent, drug and war-torn village of Buenaventura on the country’s Pacific coast, neither boy has…
Race – David Mamet – A Canadian Stage Production
When I first found out that Jason Priestley was going to be returning to the stage in a David Mamet play, I was intrigued. When I found out that Canadian Stage was bringing it to Toronto, I was excited. But after I saw the NOW Talks presentation with Priestley wherein the play was discussed…
The Mind Reels 