Look past the Botoxed parade of designer gowns and salivating paparazzi and you’ll find a distinctly Canadian story unfolding on this year’s Oscar red carpet. Canada’s public film producer, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), received two Academy Award nominations this year: one for Chris Landreth’s animated short film Ryan, and another for the […]
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D’oh Christ!
Around 1990, when conservatives and other like-minded squares started shrieking about the crude, sassy new animated series The Simpsons,they of course jumped the proverbial gun. (“I don’t think anybody should be proud to be an underachiever” is how my own grade 6 teacher explained her ban of Simpsons shirts, which then mostly featured Bart spouting […]
