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Previously On Comics: Hot Docs Resignations and SPD Closure

April 1, 2024

Good morning friends. I hope you are enjoying the long weekend. It’s been quite quiet this week — I think we might be deep into con season, I’m not actually sure — but we were blessed by the gods of delicious consequences which I for one always ...

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REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — We Are Guardians Rings the Bell on the Fate of the Amazon

August 2, 2023

Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada. We Are Guardians follows a group of forest activists in Tenetehara as they protect their homes from illegal loggers despite the great risk to ...

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REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — Still: A Michael J Fox Movie Celebrates an Extraordinary Life in the Spotlight

July 27, 2023

Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada. In Still: A Michael J Fox Movie, film and TV actor Michael J. Fox takes audiences through his life, from a Canadian youngster to a household ...

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REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 – Memory and History Get Put to the Test in NATHAN-ism

June 15, 2023

Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada. As a young adult, Nathan Hilu was tasked with guarding war criminals and perpetrators of the Holocaust. He spent his life documenting his ...

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REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — Angel Applicant Examines Life, Art, and Terminal Illness

June 5, 2023

Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada. In Angel Applicant, Ken August Meyer chronicles his life with systemic scleroderma, an autoimmune disease he shares with Swiss expressionist ...

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REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 – Cynara Puts the Canadian Injustice System on Blast

May 22, 2023

[[Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada.]] In Cynara, the Ali family challenges the criminal conviction of Cindy Ali, who was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder ...

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REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story Shows Football is Universal

May 18, 2023

[[Editors Note: This review is the first in a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada.]] The documentary from Kurdish-Canadian director Kordo Doski, Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story follows the Dalkurd Football Club, which is ...

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REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 – All You See is a Melancholic Meditation on Immigration in the Netherlands

May 16, 2023

[[Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada.]] All You See asks the question what happens when a person is stared at but never actually seen? Director Niki Padidar attempts to answer ...

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Previously On Comics: Hot Docs Resignations and SPD Closure

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — We Are Guardians Rings the Bell on the Fate of the Amazon

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — Still: A Michael J Fox Movie Celebrates an Extraordinary Life in the Spotlight

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 – Memory and History Get Put to the Test in NATHAN-ism

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — Angel Applicant Examines Life, Art, and Terminal Illness

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 – Cynara Puts the Canadian Injustice System on Blast

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 — Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story Shows Football is Universal

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 – All You See is a Melancholic Meditation on Immigration in the Netherlands

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