‘Past Lives’ is a beautiful story of childhood crushes, and the sorrow and agony that ensues when one party sends another party away to move to another stage of his or her life.
Norman Jewison (left) and Lynne St. David-Jewison arrive on the red carpet at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Jewison had a trailblazing commitment to the development of film in Canada, seen both in his founding of the Canadian Film Centre and when he visited us at the Windsor International Film Festival.
In Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw respectively play the world’s most famous secret agent and his gadget supplier.
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At Q’s of course! But he doesn’t pull them out of his sleeve. In Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw play the famous spy and his gadget supplier.
Despite the Hollywood stereotype, many single people are happy and not desperate for a romantic partner.
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Many Christmas-themed movies centre around single people searching for love. But many people are increasingly happy being single and in no rush to find a partner.
Ethan Hawke plays a minister in ‘First Reformed,’ (2017) a film that prompts viewers to rethink what they assume they already know, from politics to religion to the climate crisis.
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‘Somebody has to do something’: Top feature film and documentary picks from scholars examining climate change and cinema offer courage to hold contradictory truths and pursue climate solutions.
Godzilla Minus One returns to fear of disasters incurred by damage to our environment.
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The film asks how individuals and communities can tackle disaster while embracing an ethos of mutual aid that sidesteps yearning for nationalist policies that lead to even more harm.
From Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, to The Door-to-Door Bookstore, a variety of new novels present bookselling as a source of solace, meaning and escape. What’s going on here?
Jeffrey Wright stars in ‘American Fiction,’ a satirical film which raises questions about race and commodity and diversity.
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The release of ‘American Fiction’ presents an opportunity to talk about race, power and white supremacy: What version of Blackness is acceptable or saleable within American culture?
Erika Alexander is Coraline and Jeffrey Wright is Monk in ‘American Fiction.’
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In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, ‘American Fiction.’
While the film’s terrorists may have been fake, the message about the political climate of the time is real.
The 1802 Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot was part of Napoléon’s effort to retake Haiti − then known as Saint-Domingue − and reestablish slavery in the colony.
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In-flight entertainment has evolved significantly over the years, from a one-off experiment to the on-demand streaming services many of us are now used to.
A storyline in the forthcoming ‘Wonka’ movie is that the central character can change a dutiful young girl’s life.
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We’re all familiar with a green ‘G’ or a red ‘MA’ on a movie poster, but those ratings don’t have any basis in what we know about child development. They’d be much more useful for parents if they did.
In Bach’s era, the pipe organ was one of the world’s most technologically advanced instruments.
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The famous composer certainly didn’t have haunted houses in mind when he wrote the piece.
An Osage man on the Arkansas River sometime between 1910 and 1918 – about a decade before the Osage Reign of Terror.
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The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.