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Interview: Zach Braff

We sit down with actor, writer, and director Zach Braff to talk about his dual role in Sam Raimi's hotly anticipated Oz the Great and Powerful and working with Raimi on making another tale in one of cinema’s most iconic locations, the multimedia based nature of his performance as a talking and flying primate with a jaunty hat, his memories of the original Oz, and why there hasn’t really been a follow up yet to Garden State just yet.

Trouble in the Peace Review

This month's Hot Docs Doc Soup entry The Trouble in the Peace certainly paints a pretty and swift moving picture of gas pipeline corruption in the Peace River section of B.C. and Alberta, but while it doesn't lack heart, it's definitely lacking in substance. Also, strangely enough, it comes with a tie-in video game that might deliver the message better than the film can.

Interview: Barry Levinson

We sit down with acclaimed director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam) to talk about his first foray into horror with the found footage ecological thriller The Bay.

This Week in DVD: 3/5/13

This week on home video we check out The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Wreck-It Ralph, The Intouchables, Red Dawn, The Marine 3: Homefront, The Bay, and Girls Against Boys.

CONTEST: See ADMISSION Across Canada!

Enter for a chance to win one of ten pairs of passes to an advance screening of the new comedy Admission in Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, or Vancouver on Thursday, March 21st courtesy of Dork Shelf and eOne Films.

CONTEST: See HOME AGAIN in Toronto and Vancouver

Enter for a chance to win one of five pairs of passes to see an advance screening of the Canadian produced drama Home Again on Wednesday, March 13th in Vancouver and Thursday, March 14th in Toronto, courtesy of Dork Shelf and eOne Films.

Of Two Minds Review

While many documentaries about issues as sensitive as mental illness can be clouded in excessive fact-listing or sentimentality, Douglas Blush and Lisa Klein’s examination of bipolar disorder Of Two Minds deftly avoids the obvious traps, never attempting to rally or manipulate the audience

21 and Over Review

The lazy, lacklustre comedy 21 and Over shows that we haven't come very far at all since the days of Animal House, but it still isn't the worst of its frat boy kind.

Charlie Zone Review

It's not perfect, but the hard nosed Haligonian thriller Charlie Zone is the perfect antidote for anyone who thinks Canadian cinema has grown too soft and safe.

The Bitter Buddha Review

The Bitter Buddha takes a fascinating backstage look at one of the most fascinating, lesser known, and most widely admired comedians working today, Eddie Pepitone.

California Solo Review

Despite a great leading performance from Robert Carlyle, California Solo is vapid to the point of being almost completely uninteresting.