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Interview: David Zucker, legendary spoof comedy writer/director

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  November 10, 2025 @ 3:22pm

David Zucker has written and directed some of the biggest comedies of all time, including Airplane! and The Naked Gun.

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EIFF Review: P.S.

Posted by: Scott Hayes  •  October 15, 2004 @ 11:59am

Laura Linney has an effortless acting talent to portray most of her characters with grace, charm, and ease. She becomes the light of the film. Other similarly talented actresses include Elisabeth Shue, Molly Parker, and Nicole Kidman.

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Review: Team America: World Police

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 15, 2004 @ 11:59am

In world politics, the concept of America acting as sort of a world police force has come up time and time again. Just take George W. Bush's recent actions in the war on terrorism and his attack on Iraq based on the so-called existence of weapons of mass destruction, despite the fact that no weapons existed in that country.

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Review: Everyone

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 12, 2004 @ 11:59am

Ryan (Matt Fentiman) and Grant (Mark Hildreth) aren't your normal couple, but they are in love and after dating one another for a long period of time they have decided to spend the rest of their lives together as one.

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Previewing the 2004/2005 Television Season: Part 1

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  October 11, 2004 @ 12:00am

Traditionally, the new television season comes the Monday after the Emmy telecast. But in recent years, networks have begun rolling their new seasons out before the Emmys have even aired. Now this season, it seems that networks have no idea when to debut new shows.

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Interview: Wilby Wonderful director Daniel MacIvor

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 10, 2004 @ 12:00am

As the film festival entered its second week and I entered about day five or six of minimal sleeping, I'd seen far too many movies, and the location at which I live began to seem a distant memory, I took a step back.

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Review: Taxi

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  October 6, 2004 @ 11:59am

Caution, this film may induce outbursts of "road rage"!

The 1998 French film Taxi spawned two sequels and became one of the most successful writing projects for French director/screenwriter phenom Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita).

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VIFF Review: What Remains of Us

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 6, 2004 @ 11:59am

It's hard to believe that in the year 2004, that not every country in the world is free. There is no better example of the this than the attacks America felt on September 11th, 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York City were hit by hijacked planes.

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Review: Shark Tale

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  October 1, 2004 @ 11:59am

Where has all the heart and humor gone?

In the latest computer-animated extravaganza from DreamWorks Pictures, Will Smith lends his voice to a fish named Oscar, who happens to be a fast-talking fish who dreams of bigger and brighter things.

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VIFF: 6 Days, Many Movies, and a Lot of BK

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  October 1, 2004 @ 12:00am

Okay, if you were to ask me last week how many movies I planned to see at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival, lovingly referred to as VIFF by film geeks young and old, then I would have told you I had a tentative schedule of nearly 50 ready and lined up.

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Review: Deluxe Combo Platter

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  September 30, 2004 @ 11:59am

Life in a small town can be difficult. People always want to leave for the big city, but at the same time the change in lifestyle and surroundings can prove to be difficult. For Eve Stuckley (Marla Sokoloff), an aspiring artist who's working as a waitress at the local Hog-Chow diner (a place she's inherited from her dead mother and father), life couldn't be further from perfect.

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