Keith Fraser-Smith March 17, 2009 No Comments
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
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John Bowen November 12, 2008 No Comments
“Have you read The Shack?” If you haven’t been asked that question recently, you probably will be. The book has two claims to fame: it has topped the Globe and Mail fiction best-seller list for eleven weeks and counting—and it is not easy to find at Indigo. The former tells you lots of people are [...]
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John Bowen March 5, 1999 No Comments
For my money Schindler’s List is the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony of movie-making. Steve Spielberg has come a long way since Jaws and ET! If you haven’t seen it, go with a friend you don’t mind crying with, and with whom you can share the silence afterwards. You won’t want to talk.
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My friend, Lisa, wrote me recently: Suffering has been the story of my life. I am at a point in my therapy where I almost donít want to remove any more barriers blocking memories of my childhood for fear of yet another ordeal to face.
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