Articles by Bjorn Olson

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  Starbuck

  Ken Scott

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2011

  Bill Hicks has a line about being responsible for the slaughter of millions with an empty gym sock, which acts as a metaphor for the suppos...

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  Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

  Jon Foy

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2011

  Justin Duerr began noticing embedded plaques laid upon Philadelphia streets in the early '90s. The tiles all read some variation of the fol...

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  Higher Ground

  Vera Farmiga

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2011

  The face of religion in America has changed drastically as the country moves into the 21st century. While the nation has become increasingl...

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  I am a Good Person / I am a Bad Person

  Ingrid Veninger

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2011

  Written, directed by and starring Toronto, ON filmmaker Ingrid Veninger, I am a Good Person / I am a Bad Person is as personal as personal...

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  Starbuck

  Ken Scott

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2011

  Bill Hicks has a line about being responsible for the slaughter of millions with an empty gym sock, which acts as a metaphor for the suppos...

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  Goon

  Michael Dowse

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2011

  In 1977, Slap Shot set the bar for the hockey movie, immortalizing the hardscrabble world of working class minor hockey with a legendarily...

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  Twenty Cigarettes

  James Benning

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2011

  The Toronto International Film Festival's Wavelengths program exists as both a sidebar of the massive festival and its mini-festival, actin...

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  Keyhole

  Guy Maddin

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2011

  The latest offering from Canada's favourite oddball, Guy Maddin, Keyhole is bizarre, discomfiting, grotesque and perverse. In other words,...