As I sit down to write this, I find myself asking a very strange question: Is Memory Run a Canadian film? Yeah, I know it was filmed in Toronto, and that IMDB lists Canada (and the US) as its country of origin. But that’s not quite the same thing. After all, the homegrown Canadian Science […]
Read more "Memory Run (1995)"It’s nice to see that some things never change. As I’ve noted before, Canadian-made science fiction films have a tendency towards weirdness. If you have any doubt about that, you might want to check out a few of their typical offerings, like Big Meat Eater, Terminal City Ricochet, Music of the Spheres, Savannah Electric Monochrome Dystopia, or […]
Read more "Mars et Avril [Mars and April] (2012)"(aka, Invasion of the Mindbenders, Alien High) All right, I admit it. The biggest question I have when it comes to Canadian films from the Eighties is “How in the world did this get made?” Now, I’ll admit that my point of view probably reflects the fact that, yes, the distinctively Canadian films from the […]
Read more "Mind Benders (1987)"I never thought I would see this film. And now, not only have I seen it, but I’ve seen two different versions of the film. When I first heard of it, under its original name, Savannah Electric Monochrome Dystopia (which I still prefer!), it was almost a myth, one of those tiny independent films you […]
Read more "Savannah Electric Monochrome Dystopia [The Savannah Resistance; Savannah Electric] (1985)"
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