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Dead Man’s Switch Review: The Money Game

by Courtney Small
April 29, 2021March 2, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

The rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies after the 2008 financial crisis ushered in a new era for financial trading. Creating a financial Wild West of sorts, where anyone who understood blockchain

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Review: Dead Man’s Switch: A Crypto Mystery

by Courtney Small
April 29, 2021November 9, 2021
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Sheona McDonald's Dead Man’s Switch: A Crypto Mystery a crypto mystery serves as a cautionary tale of the dangers of fast money.

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Farm Crime Is Truly Canadian True Crime

by Madeline Lines
April 4, 2021August 7, 2021
Features

The docuseries that introduced audiences to a world of blueberry heists and bee-stealers is back for a second season of true crime with a Canadian twist. CBC’s Farm Crime goes beyond small

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Operation Varsity Blues Review: The Costs of Elite Education

by Pat Mullen
March 17, 2021August 8, 2021
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College admissions scandal docudrama Operation Varsity Blues unpacks a rigged system that enables a privileged few.

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Review: Misha and the Wolves

by Pat Mullen
February 2, 2021August 10, 2021
Reviews/Sundance

A standout selection at Sundance, Misha and the Wolves is a twist-upon-twist, reveal-after-after, jaw-on-the-floor thrill ride. It's a wild-but-true story masterfully told about the art of deception and the cost of lies.

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Baby God Review: Who’s Your Daddy?

by Pat Mullen
December 2, 2020August 22, 2021
Reviews

2020 has delivered its fair of crazy stories. However, no doc this year quite has a jaw-on-the-floor ick factor like Baby God does. This true crime/#MeToo investigation is further proof that truth

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A Crime on the Bayou Review: The True Crime of Systemic Racism

by Pat Mullen
November 15, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

A Crime on the Bayou (USA, 89 min.) Dir. Nancy Buirski “I have an ambivalent relationship to the term ‘allies’,” says activist Angela Davis in an archival excerpt in A Crime on the

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True Crime, Lobsters, and The Killing of Phillip Boudreau

by Trevor Hogg
October 17, 2020August 14, 2021
Interviews

"It’s crazy to realize that any of us are potentially capable of anything depending on the circumstances. This is a raw wound and something that the community as a whole hasn’t figured

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Hot Docs Review: ‘All That I Am’

by Jason Gorber
June 8, 2020December 11, 2021
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All that I Am (Norway, 75 min) Dir. Tone Grøttjord-Glenne Programme: International Spectrum All that I Am begins with a voice speaking of a dark past over images of gently falling snow. The

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Strokes of Insight: Benjamin Ree Discusses ‘The Painter and the Thief’

by Jason Gorber
June 8, 2020December 11, 2021
Hot Docs/Interviews

"The film shows that in Norwegian society we use a lot of government money to rehabilitate people like Karl Bertil. But look at Bertil today. The government has invested in his life

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