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Rough Night Exposes The Threadbare Downside Of The Women-Cutting-Loose Genre

It’s hard enough being a woman filmmaker these days, but consider the plight of the woman filmgoer. It took years to get a big-budget Wonder Woman vehicle, and if you...

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Alternative Entertainment

Beyond Janis & Jimi: The Forgotten Jams From The Summer Of Love

This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, which saw as many as 100,000 flower children descend on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to s...

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Alternative Entertainment

Akira Kurosawa Names His 21 Favourite Art Films In The Criterion Collection

The highly auteur-respecting Criterion Collection has, as you might expect, done quite well by the work of Akira Kurosawa, director of Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, and R...

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Alternative Entertainment

Okja Director Bong Joon-Ho: 'In Films Animals Are Either Soul Mates or Butchered

The director’s bold and bonkers fantasies have sparked comparisons with Spielberg, and his latest film delivers a chilling message via the relationship between a girl...

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Alternative Entertainment

This Indian Documentary Shows Us The Real Price Of Fast Fashion

While fast-fashion is rampant across the country today, few know of its dark implications. This website defines it as “A phenomenon in the fashion industry whereby pr...

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Thought Factory

So Long, Farewell, It’s Hard To Say Goodbye!

The last time I spoke to Piroj was two days before Nina Goel, her friend called me from Piroj’s mobile phone to inform me of her hospitalization and to tell me that P...

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Alternative Entertainment

This Is Why Israeli Fashion Is So Political

As civil war gripped Ethiopia, an entire community of Ethiopian Jews was airlifted out of the country by the Israeli government in an audacious 1984 covert operation to res...

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Alternative Entertainment

How Online Radio Shows, Podcasts & Blogs Can Be Your Guide To New Music

In the age of algorithmic discoveries, there’s a case to be made for real guides. What better way could there be to expand the horizons of your aural experience? Ther...

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Festivals

Metro Vancouver's South Asian Music Festival Brings Back The Bhangra Beat

After a successful start in Vancouver last year, the City of Bhangra Festival is expanding in all the right places. “We are now in the heart of the community that we ...

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Gender

Wonder Woman, Death In The Gunj, Show The Term Female Director Must Get Obsolete

As you read this, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman is enjoying its run in theatres, already claiming the largest opening ever for a film directed by a ‘female direct...

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