Beatles box set: EMI, $259.98

Thirteen original albums, as well as two CDs with two hundred and six songs and a DVD from The Beatles recorded works has been updated after seven years to be perfected for all Beatles lovers for a price of...

No To Nobu, Save the Bluefin Tuna Celebs Like Sting Say

In his June 5, 2009 piece in The Independent, Celebrity diners say no to Nobu, Martin Hickman writes:Protesting actors, pop stars, models and socialites have started a celebrity backlash against the A-list's favourite restaurant Nobu for selling an endangered fish.Sienna...

The curtain rises

In a little while from now I am going to attend the showings of five short films at the arts council auditorium in Karachi. After an absence of two years, the seventh Kara Film Festival is back in the city as...

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"``The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange'' (Soho Press. 288 pages. $25), by Mark Barrowcliffe: As the recent cult documentaries ``King of Kong'' and ``Darkon'' have shown, geeks make for great...

Arts Engine Celebrates 10th Anniversary

"Arts Engine Celebrates 10th Anniversary April 28, 2008 05:32 PM, by POVGuest Katy Chevigny is the filmmaker behind Election Day (P.O.V. 2008) as well as the co-founder of the non-profit media organization Arts Engine, whose production arm, Big Mouth Films, has produced...

Canada TV Tax Credits: A Comedy of Errors

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorNoted Authour Michael Coren states (in Italics):"Authentic censorship is a problem in Canada"  To that I say to Michael, I do not know if we have a censorship...

Worlds Oldest Profession: " May go Co-op" in BC.

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThey say selling oneself for money is the  world's oldest profession. If some in British Columbia have their way, prostitution for those by choice may establish a...

Mexican actors focus on 'abuses'

"Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal held a gala dinner as a way of raising money to support human rights causes. And they promised to make documentaries raising awareness of issues such as the unsolved murders of...

Seattle Film Fest opens Art-House cinema

The northwest certainly seems to be a booming place for film fests; here in Vancouver the film fest is an annual favourite, and it seems Seattle is having similar success. Like our VIFF theatre on Seymour,...

'Wank week' postponed

"Channel 4 has postponed transmission of its "wank week" programming in a bid to avoid further controversy in the aftermath of the Celebrity Big Brother racism row. The network's short season of three late night documentaries about masturbation was to have been broadcast next...

Remembering The Zebra Killings

"MOST SERIAL KILLINGS in America take on a life of their own through movies, books and documentaries. The crimes of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and The Son of Sam are still well remembered years after they were committed. Yet there is one set of serial killings that has...

Australia's Crocodile Hunter gets private funeral

"Irwin's father, Bob Irwin, had declined a government offer for a state funeral for his son. Irwin, known as the "Crocodile Hunter" after his popular TV documentaries which aired around the world, was killed six...

Toronto International Film Festival 2006: Real to Reel Announced

"Documentaries aren’t usually the most hotly anticipated titles at each year’s Toronto International Film Festival, with most people, even by September, still probably a bit burnt out from Hot Docs, but that’s not to say that the documentaries at TIFF are any less...

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