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USA, 2025, Dir. Akiva Schaffer, 85 minutes When and Where Release date for Canada & U.S. is set for August 1, 2025 | Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas Reviewer John Anthony Jane Akiva Schaffer’s
2025 version of The Naked Gun is not a remake of David
Zucker’s original released back in 1988, but rather a
legacy sequel. Zucker’s version had Canadian actor Leslie
Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin, while Irish actor Liam Neeson takes
on the role of Frank Drebin Jr. Full
Review
2025 DOXA Documentary Film Festival When & Where May 1 - 11, 2025 | Vancouver Playhouse, VIFF Centre, The Cinematheque & SFU Goldcorp Centre + online
Canada, 2025, dir. Baljit Sangra, 79 minutes There’s perhaps no greater tragedy than talent unclaimed…It would seem that Judi Singh was born too early for the global acclaim that her talent deserved. Judi was the daughter of Sohan Singh Bhullar, a Punjabi Sikh and Effie Jones, whose father had been a slave in Mississippi. She began singing at Edmonton's famous jazz club the Yardbird Suite at the age of 17, and continued to perform in front of sold-out crowds at the venue throughout the fifties and sixties. Full Review
Mistress Dispeller China
& USA, 2024, Elizabeth Lo, 95 minutes Elizabeth
Lo’s strange documentary provides an intimate look at China’s
booming relationship industry, that has for the last decade indicated
an increase in adultery. Of course, China is hardly unique in
this very human problem. Full
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Reviewer John Anthony Jane In the making
of Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Danish-based documentarian
Daniel Borenstein worked with educational videographer and student
events coordinator Pavel Talankin. Over a two year period Talankin
selectively documented the activities of students and staff
at the Karabash Primary School #1. Full
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Reviewer John Anthony Jane Montreal
based Kinga Michalska’s observational documentary investigates
Poland from the perspective of people living today on or near
sites that are identified with the horror of the Holocaust.
Sites, such as the labour camp at Starachowice and the Stutthof
concentration camp at Sztutowo where 65,000 people met their
fate. Full Review
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