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December 31, 2021 
Don’t look down on ‘Don’t look up’
At this point, it is tough to say too much more about Adam McKay’s latest movie Don’t Look Up. For the few who haven’t heard…
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March 17, 2021
Funny Boy, representation and dangers of bourgeois apathy
Deepa Mehta’s latest film, Funny Boy, is a queer coming-of-age story set in the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Based on Shyam Selvadurai’s…
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March 4, 2021
Black Power in ‘One Night in Miami’
Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown gather in the aftermath of Ali winning the Heavyweight title in early 1964, about to embark…
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October 20, 2020
A riveting courtroom drama undermined by liberalism
Admittedly, I was quite skeptical when starting to watch the new Aaron Sorkin film about the famous trial of activists after the riots at the…
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September 23, 2020
Palestinian cinema, resistance, and community at TPFF
In its 13th year of operation, the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) returns as an online event, more important than ever, to provide a space…
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January 14, 2020
1917: not the war film we need
As threats of war are once again the reality in the world, following the US assassination of Iranian official Qasem Soleimani, how our culture depicts…