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Winnipeg Folk Fest Interview & Performance: Two Crows for Comfort
Posted by: Paul Little • December 22, 2025 @ 1:43pm
Two Crows for Comfort are a Manitoba folk duo (with roots and country leanings) who spend a good chunk of their year touring around North America with their dog in tow. The incredible harmonies and storytelling from this real-life couple are up there with some of the best duos making their style of music anywhere on the planet.
With Senior year fast approaching for the students at American Eagle Christian High, Mary (Jena Malone) is looking forward to yet another banner year. She's a member of the Christian Jewels, an organization which she describes as sort of a girl gang for Jesus. She's in the "in crowd" and sits next to and hangs out with the most popular girl in school, Hillary Faye (Mandy Moore).
Placid Lake (Ben Lee) is certainly not your normal teenager. Slapped with the unusual first name of Placid and made to wear women's clothes at a young age to question the societal norms, his experience in school has been anything but positive. Bullied at a young age and throughout high school, Placid is about to finally enter the adult part of his life.
Okay. I'll admit it. I'm a fast-food junkie. You wouldn't know it by looking at me, but for the purposes of this motion picture film review and because it is in fact true, I'm a fast food junkie. Or as McDonald's calls us, "Heavy Users". I'm a man on the go and usually can be found at a fast food establishment at least 3 times a week, sometimes even more than once a day.
What made the original Shrek so entertaining was how the animators turned the world of fairy-tales upside down, but without ruining the morals that kept them together. The careful precision and absolute hilarity that was housed in every frame of Shrek made the film an instant classic. It is no wonder it went on to win an Academy Award.
2001 was the year of the Ogre and the year of CG films. After Disney and Pixar had tremendous success with the two Toy Story films and A Bug's Life, Dreamworks and PDI, as well as a host of other competitors, brought forward a number of efforts to dethrone the mouse.
There is certainly nothing small or subtle about Wolfgang Peterson's (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) latest contribution to the realm of Hollywood blockbusters. Troy is an adaptation of Homer's "The Iliad" that is truly grandiose.
One of the greatest wars of the Ancient World was forged between rivals Greece and Troy. The war itself and its immortal heroes were chronicled by legendary scribe Homer in his immortal epic, "The Iliad".
What happens when you cross a gothic horror movie with state-of-the-art special effects? You get Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale starring in Van Helsing. Not only does our hero fight vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein's creation, in the first 5-minutes he dispatches Mr. Hyde.
Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing is a rip-roaring start to the 2004 summer blockbuster season, complete with attractive performers and so much computer-generated action that my friend Jonas stated that "the special effects made my retinas burn".
Okay, I admit it. I am a fan of monster movies. If you were to point out the quintessential staple of monster films, you would have to look to the stable of creatures that populated the Universal Pictures horror films of the 1930s. The films that made the likes of Boris Karloff (Frankenstein, The Mummy), Bela Lugosi (Count Dracula) and Lon Chaney Jr.
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