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Interview: Jeff Drake from the Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival (2023 Edition)

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November 10, 2023

This is the 14th year for the Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival, formerly known as The Dark Bridges Film Festival (though they revived that name a couple of years ago and...

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Killers of the Flower Moon

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October 21, 2023

Knowing that Killers of the Flower Moon was 3.5 hours long, I walked into the theatre making arrangements with my brain to take Martin Scorsese’s new crime and family epic...

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The Exorcist 50th Anniversary (CTV News Appearance)

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October 16, 2023

This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Exorcist, one of the biggest horror movies of all time. Last weekend also saw the release of the 6th Exorcist film, Exorcist:...

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Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar

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August 23, 2023

Dethklok is back in a full-length effort (well, mostly; it’s an hour and 23 minutes) that has the band battling inner demons while trying to write a song of salvation...

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Barbie

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July 23, 2023

In this age of franchise IP, it’s surprising that it took this long to make a movie about one of the biggest toy lines in history, the Barbie doll. It’s...

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Oppenheimer

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July 22, 2023

Note: there are no spoilers in this review, but I do talk a bit about the structure of the film. I saw the first couple of trailers for Oppenheimer, which seemed...

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Summer Movies (CTV News)

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July 17, 2023

Jeff Rogstad and I sat down to plough through a few of our favourite summer movies on the CTV News. There are plenty that we weren’t able to mention, but...

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One-Minute Movie Review – Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part One

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July 15, 2023

Here’s my One-Minute Movie Review of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part One. I’ll also include the 10-minute making of on the base jumping stunt below, because it’s totally worth watching....

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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June 30, 2023

I hoped that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny would be the swan song for our beloved blockbuster archeologist. They needed redemption after their failure to see him out...

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The Flash

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June 22, 2023

I was not a fan of the DC Synderverse. There were pieces of it I enjoyed, like Ben Affleck as Batman or Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent. But I found...