Books Film/TV

Lee Marvin Point Blank

      By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up In 1977 my mother, my brother and I spent the entire summer in Greece.  One quiet, warm night in a city called Tripolis she took us to a local cinematorium that showed a different old American movie every night.  Upon entering the theatre we discovered why […]

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The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (Dutton, $19)

The scourge of cancer is never easy for anyone involved, especially if a teenager is diagnosed with this dreaded disease, and should be focused on high school, friendships and shopping instead of chemotherapy, radiation treatments and debilitating side effects. Award-winning author John Green has touched upon this very unthinkable subject with his latest novel, the […]

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He Who Laughs, Lasts by Josh Freed (Vehicule Press, $20)

By Stuart Nulman After the craziness we Anglophones have experienced in Quebec throughout 2012 (especially the student tuition fee hike protests, ongoing revelations of rampant corruption at the Charbonneau Commission hearings and the election of another PQ government and that nasty “pasta” business) — not to mention the everyday stresses and headaches that make up […]