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Searching for Drug Peace Review: Amsterdam Comes to East Van

by Pat Mullen
May 1, 2026
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Searching for Drug Peace observes how the Coca Leaf Café and Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary in East Vancouver offers a provocative alternative amid the opioid crisis.

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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird Review – Long Strange Trip

by Pat Mullen
January 10, 2025
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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird review: Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala of Mars Volta/At the Drive-In look back on their music and relationship.

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Silver’s Uprising Review: The Grass Is Always Greener

by Jason Gorber
June 8, 2024
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Silver's Uprising tells the story of tech entrepreneur Amos Dov Silver and his innovation with app-based drug dealing in Israel.

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A Wolfpack Called Ernesto Review: When iPhones are the New Vérité

by Liam Lacey
April 30, 2023
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If iPhones are the new cinema vérité, as Martin Scorsese suggests, then the true crime doc A Wolfpack Called Ernesto is the future.

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Love in the Time of Fentanyl Intimately Observes How Harm Reduction Saves Lives

by Paloma Pacheco
May 12, 2022
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An interview with Love in the Time of Fentanyl director Colin Askey on documenting front line workers in Vancouver's East Side amid the opioid crisis.

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TIFF Review: Comala Is an Intimate True Crime Tale

by Pat Mullen
September 11, 2021
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Gian Cassini's Comala is a potent true crime family saga as the filmmaker explores his father's life as a hitman. He encounters the victims left to tell the tale in a country

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The Crime of the Century Review: A towering examination of the Opioid Crisis

by Marc Glassman
May 7, 2021
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We all know that way too many people have died from overdosing on supposedly legal drugs, but have you looked at the numbers lately? In Alex Gibney’s brilliant new investigative series The

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Lost Boys Review: Gross Exploitative Filmmaking

by Pat Mullen
May 5, 2021
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“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks the narrator towards the end of Lost Boys. A similar question passed through this reviewer’s mind multiple times whilst screening the film. Lost Boys

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Violeta Ayala on the Power of Documentary-Inspired Virtual Reality

by Madeline Lines
January 28, 2021
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"Everything exists in a mixture between Quechua mythology and reality. It’s reality in the sense that we have the plaza, the prison, the mountains – everything we have in Bolivia – but

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My Psychedelic Love Story Review: Errol Morris Trips Out

by Marc Glassman
December 1, 2020
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My Psychedelic Love Story is the latest in what’s getting to be long a line of docs made by Errol Morris, which encourage his central characters to tell their side of what

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