With a third documentary on the famous Hollywood icon now in release, the question is What new information could there be, since Calling Hedy Lamarr (2004) and Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) both presented a wealth of information using very different approaches…
Reviews of two docs on iconoclasts: Bill Nye: Science Guy (2017), currently running at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema + Citizen Jane: The Battle for the City (2017) on DVD from IFC, and screening Nov. 29 at the Revue Cinema.
According to Bill Nye, when the young engineer met astrophysicist Carl Sagan in 1987, he got the bug for science, and within a few years became Bill Nye, the Science Guy, the titular hero / educator of the popular PBS show that ran from 1993-1998…
To Torontonians, Jane Jacobs is perhaps best remembered as one of the key figures who managed to successfully kill the major section of the Spadina Expressway in 1971, a route that would’ve provided drivers in the west end with a needed alternate expressway to reach the city from mid-town suburbs…
New ArtScopeTO podcast features artist Mary Lynne Atkinson, whose series Land on Fire can be seen at Toronto’s Urban Gallery until Sat. Nov. 25, 2017.
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