April 1, 1999 Exploring the chance to change

IT'S THE EVENING of October 5, 1957, in Coalwood, West Virginia. A high school student, Homer Hickman (Jake Gyllenhaal), and others from the town stare into the night sky and see the Sputnik rocket streak across. Homer's...

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March 1, 1999 Screen tackles life's big transformations

WHAT ARE THE THINGS that change people in significant ways? At a time when there's much interest in self-help and personal growth, this question of what effects real change is a lively one. And a Lenten one - because in the...

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February 1, 1999 Classics are best viewed in their original forms

SPRINGING UP in the suburbs of larger Canadian cities are new movie theatre complexes. The complete opposite of the urban cineplex, these venues are a cross between the big movie palaces of the 1940s and theme parks. They...

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January 1, 1999 Violin brings mystery and misfortune

The scene is an up-scale auction house in Montreal; the time is the present. The auctioneer (Colm Feore) has come to the final item available: "Here she is now, lot 72 -- the so called 'Red Violin.'" The bidding starts,...

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December 1, 1998 Same planet, different worlds apt theme

SAME PLANET, Different Worlds was the theme of the 1998 Vancouver International Film Festival. With more than 300 films from 40 countries, it was an apt theme in a time when we're so often presented with the dynamics of...

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October 1, 1998 Irving novel lost in movie translation

N A WORLD where few things are certain, here's one sure bet: if you read and loved John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, you'll be disappointed with the film suggested by it, Simon Birch. Written and directed by Mark Steven...

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September 1, 1998 Anglican Video wins bronze

or the first time, Anglican Video has won an award from the prestigious International TV and Video Association of North America. Its half hour documentary, A Journey Begins ... With a Dream, beat 1,200 other productions...

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September 1, 1998 Graphic war portrayal among Spielberg's best

Saving Private Ryan Directed by Steven SpielbergStarring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon (out of five) (extreme and graphic gore and violence, profanity) ...

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July 1, 1998 Even the angels couldn't save this one

City of Angels Directed by Brad SiberlingStarring Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan (out of five) (PG-13 for language, sexuality and some nudity) N...

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May 1, 1998 Sad stories of preachers, politicians

ALTHOUGH IN THE visible Church the evil be ever mingled with the good, and sometimes the evil have chief authority in the Ministrations of the Word and Sacraments, yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name, but...

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