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Buck 65
Featuring "Rough House Blues" by Buck 65
You can find out more at buck65.com

Secret House Against The World

I grew up in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by music. All kinds. I saw a lot of things.

By the time I started making records, I had a story to tell but I didn't know how to tell it. I had an interesting upbringing, but it didn't prevent me from being a jackass as a young man. Pity. My first bunch of records are crap and that's all there is to it. Boring hip hop...

First time I ever said anything interesting on a record was on a song called 'Memories of the Passed' which appeared on a compilation album called Bassments of Bad Men.

Around the same time (1995-1996), I started doing some collaborative work with my friend Robert (better known as Sixtoo). Our first album was called Psoriasis. I accidentally made a decent song on this record called 'Security Screws'.

The next few years of my life were a waste of everybody's time. I was chicken-shit and hip hop music had me in a headlock. I was trying to make interesting music but failed again and again.

My first real attempts at honesty came along while making an album called Vertex. Songs like 'The Centaur' and 'BSc.' Showed signs of life, but my head was still up my ass and the music was horrible. You can't even really call it music.

Now my heart was beating and with my next album, Man Overboard, I started to grow some guts for once. Songs like 'Ice', 'Secret Splendor' and 'Pants on Fire' had some humanity at last. Empathy. Plus I finally had the sense to take on some help with the music. It was on this album that I started to work with my friends (and current band members) Graeme Campbell and Charles Austin.

Miraculously, I was offered a major-label deal on the strength of a not-so-great album called Square. But this album did have two good songs on it: 'Cries A Girl' and 'Phil'. I got lucky with 'Phil' and it offered a glimpse of my future.

Post 9-11 I was still a moron. I still had poisoned blood in my veins, but I was pulling my socks up and was learning to finally say what I meant. With some help from a keyboard player named Andrew Glencross, a drummer named Mike Catano and the best pedal steel player in the land, Dale Murray; Graeme, Charles and I went to work on a record called Talkin' Honky Blues. We developed a secret formula that worked. We toured all over the world. The committee of the Canadian music awards (the Juno's) recognized our work. I was nominated as "best songwriter" and we won the trophy for "best alternative album" in 2003.

In 2004 we ditched our winning formula for the chance to work with hot-shots like Tortoise, D-Styles, Gonzales and PJ Harvey's producer, Head. The result is an album called 'A Secret House Against The World'. It also features vocalists Tim Rutili, Tara White and the newest addition to the family, a French genius named Claire Berest.

Now the sound is developed and our own. The pieces are in place, but the perfect record has not been made. It's up to me to write some truly great songs. Maybe one day I will.

Buck 65


Kyla Christoffer
Photographer. You can find out more at KylaChristoffer.Com

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Jeff Gaulin, MA (journalism) MBA
Journalist, poet, playwright and entrepreneur. You can find out more at WWW.JEFFGAULIN.COM

Jeff Gaulin is an award-winning journalist, poet, playwright and entrepreneur who graduated from journalism school at the University of Western Ontario in 1995.

He began Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board in 1995 as an online employment service to help his classmates find work after graduation. In less than five years the service grew from a private e-mail distribution list to a nationwide web site that has drawn the attention of The National Post, BCBusiness magazine and Reader's Digest.

Jeff's media career includes work in television, newspapers, magazines, public relations and government affairs across five provinces. Today, he lives with his wife, son and daughter in Calgary, Alberta where in his spare time he enjoys kayaking, snowboarding and ordering smoked meat from Montreal.


Gerry Dee
Comedy actor. You can find out more at Gerry Dee.Com

Gerry Dee began his comedy career in a very different fashion. The son of Scottish immigrant parents, Gerry was born in Scarborough, Ontario and grew up in Toronto. He currently splits his time between living in Los Angeles and Toronto. In California, he performs regularily at The Laugh Factory, The Comedy and Magic Club, The Ice House and The Improv. In Canada, Gerry works at Yuk Yuks Comedy Clubs.

He spent 10 years as a high school phys-ed teacher before making his move to Hollywood in 2003.

In 1999, he won Toronto's Funniest New Comic competition. He would later tape his own half hour Comedy Now Special on CTV and The Comedy Network in 2001. He has attended a variety of comedy festivals, namely The US HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and The Montreal Just For Laughs Festival where he made his CBC Gala appearance in July 2004. He recently performed in Scotland and South Africa.

In 2002, he was the first Canadian in 27 years to win the prestigious San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Former comics who got their start in this competition include Robin Williams, Dana Carvey and Ellen Degeneres to name a few.

In 2003 he made his US network debut when he performed on CBS' "Star Search" with Arsenio Hall. A year later he would appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as well as on The Mike Bullard Show.

In 2004, he appeared in the CBS Sports reality series PGA Tour 18: Golf''s Ultimate Round . As well, National Lampoon featured him in a DVD which was released in 2004.

He is currently working on his short film "Head Coach" which he will produce and star in.

In 2004, he was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Comic in Canada .

He was voted as the third best comedy show of 2004 in Toronto by Now Magazine.

In 2006, he will appear in the CBC mini-series "Canada Russia 72" where he will play the role of Boston Bruin great Wayne Cashman.

He is a competitive amateur golfer (2 handicap), a former Provincially ranked tennis player and a former University hockey player at St. Francis Xavier University. Gerry is also the President of The Hockey Institute (www.thehockeyinstitute.com) in Canada and is responsible for the training of many of Canada's top minor and professional hockey players including current Montreal Canadiens prospect, Corey Locke. He has a "Tip of The Week" that airs daily in Canada on The Score Sports Network. Gerry still enjoys coaching AAA hockey and spent two years coaching Junior A hockey with The Wexford Raiders in Toronto.

Gerry's act is clean and suitable for all ages

Gerry has been touring Canada and the United States with his very humorous symposium called, "Teaching:It's Harder Than it Looks" where he is a major speaker at various Teacher Conferences and Symposiums.


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Junkyard Jonny, a.k.a. Jon Olsen
founder of Junkyard Symphony
You can find out more at WWW.JUNKYARDSYMPHONY.COM

Junkyard Jonny, a.k.a. Jon Olsen, founder of Junkyard Symphony has been playing on pots and pans since the age of four and has never really stopped. He took private drum lessons for five years as a child then entered the concert bands and jazz bands in middle school and high school. As well as being an honors student in the French immersion program, he won the overall music award and most spirited student award at high school graduation for his creative efforts in forming The Enviro Band, a collection of 20 or so concert band members who played radical rhythms on recycle bins and pickle buckets for their Earth Day ceremonies.

As a teen, Jonny began juggling and learned to ride a unicycle which became useful in his part time job as a clown where he developed his passion for performing. These skills became even more useful with the birth of Junkyard Symphony in 1991, when Jonny took to the streets with tin cans in order to raise money when a Western tree planting trip had gone sour. After receiving a great response, Jonny decided to return to his hometown Ottawa to pursue his childhood dream of being a professional percussionist. He performed with his Junkyard kit for an entire summer on Sparks Street achieving great success and a wee bit of fame. When Jonny's parents returned home that summer from a bicycle trip in the Netherlands and discovered that their pots and pans were missing, they were more than a little surprised, but delighted to hear that Jonny had earned enough money to pay for his entire year at the Univeristy of Waterloo where he studied Environmental Resource Studies.

The next summer Jonny decided to return to his favorite pots and pans pastime on Sparks Street, and although he was still having lots of fun and making lots of money he was becoming lonely as a solo performer. That's when sidekick / Lackey, Christian Duquette, a Carleton University anthropology student, entered the picture. Christian was a good friend of Jonny's who played guitar in his high school rock band. Christian didn't know how to play percussion, but he was a quick learner, and he was completely wacky, so with a little bit of Jonny's guidance, Christian turned into an Amazing Lackey, and so creating the birth of Jonny O and the Amazing Lackey.

After graduating from University, having paid for their degrees with their enterprising talents of turning one man's trash into another man's treasure, the dynamic duo went on to achieve great fame on the many roads that they traveled, performing in schools and festivals, and spreading a little bit of happiness and environmental ethic everywhere they went. Christian's brother Jeff, who tagged along as a roady, eventually became the infamous Plunger Boy, who had a unique talent for catching plungers on his small planet sized belly.

The fun went on for nine years. They performed throughout Southern and Eastern Ontario, the Maritimes, ventured into the United States, Singapore and England. They won first place in the Canadian Association of Exhibitions National Youth Talent contest in 1994. They won Best Act the Defies Description at the Kingston Busker Rendez-Vouz in 1995. In 1997 at the same festival, they won Best Musical Act. On Home Grown Cafe, Ottawa's famous talent show, they won first place overall in the variety category. They have been featured on many radio and television shows such as CBC's Basic Black, Newsday, and Jonovision, CJOH's Regional Contact, Midday News and Newsline, and Roger's Fanfare. They have appeared in over 50 newspapers.


Meghan Reddick and counselor Gayle Brown
MANAGER, YOUTH AND PARENT MARKETING
KIDS HELP PHONE
You can find out more at www.kidshelpphone.ca
Music: Ain't No Mountain High enough, by The Temptations from their new album Reflections

Gayle Brown is a counselor with Kids Help Phone and has been for 5 years. Prior to that she was an intern there. That experience led to her becoming a counselor.

Meghan Reddick joined Kids Help Phone in 2001, as Manager, Partner Programs. In her current role, as Manager, Youth Marketing, she is responsible for Kids Help Phone’s national youth marketing. She oversees youth public relations, advertising, research, and the development of the youth website offering online counselling.

Meghan came to Kids Help Phone after managing the marketing and public relations at Rogers Media, responsible for the launch of the Canadian version of Excite.ca. Prior to that, Meghan worked in marketing for Geac Computers, in the National Education division.

Enjoying over 15 years teaching ballet, tap, jazz and hip-hop to children and teens, Meghan also spent two years as a dancer for the NBA dance team, for the Vancouver Grizzlies.

Meghan graduated from the University of Western Ontario, with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She currently sits on the National Bullying Awareness Week – Toronto Coalition and she’s also a member of AIMS (Association of Internet Marketing & Sales). She lives in Toronto with her husband and adorable son.


Paul Kropp
Author. You can find out more at PaulKropp.Com

Paul Kropp has been writing books for young people since 1977, when he finally gave up trying to be a poet. "It was a few hundred years too late to become a metaphysical poet," he says. "But I learned that I could write interesting novels for teenagers."

Kropp began writing novels while teaching at a vocational secondary school in Hamilton, Ontario. His students weren't interested in most of the books that were available at the time, so Kropp wrote a book especially for them - Burn Out, the first book in Series Canada (Prentice Hall Canada, EMC U.S.) At the same time, he began working on his first young-adult novel, Wilted (Dell). Since then he has written more than fifty books - some for teens, some for reluctant readers, some for parents and some for younger children.

Paul Kropp was born on February 22, 1948 in Buffalo, New York, "the largest city in the world with the same name as an animal." As a young child, he frequently dressed in cowboy clothes after his idols Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger. In primary school, he wanted to be a fireman but discovered that his fear of heights made him ill-suited for the job. Paul Kropp went to school at P.S. 81 (with Wolf Blitzer, of CNN fame) and Hutchinson-Central Technical High School. On graduation, he toured Europe on a bicycle and then went off to Columbia University in New York City. From Columbia he received a B.A. degree, some abstruse knowledge of obscure 17th century poets, and a fondness for the piano music of Muzio Clementi.

He came to Canada in 1970, not to avoid the draft, but to take an M.A. degree in 17th century English poetry at the University of Western Ontario. After graduation, he found few positions for a metaphysical poet. With a young family to support, he decided to get his teacher's certification at Althouse College. He later taught high school English in Burlington, Hamilton and Oakville before leaving the profession to pursue writing full-time in 1994. For many years, Paul Kropp wrote and continued to teach in Hamilton, Ontario. He lived in a large Victorian house near Gage Park with his first wife and their three children: Jason (35), Justin (33) and Alexander (25).

These days, Paul Kropp spends much of his time speaking at conferences about reading and educational issues.


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Chantel Parkes
MADD Canada

Lyrics to Alcohol by the Barenaked Ladies

Chantel Parkes is a new addition to the MADD Canada team taking on the position of School Outreach Program Coordinator. She is a recent graduate of the Business Marketing Program at Fanshawe College in London ON. She started volunteering with MADD Sarnia in 2000 and then joined the MADD London chapter. She currently resides in Oakville ON.


Dennis Landmann
Lead Critic/Editor In Chief Moviefreak.Com

Music: "Do They Know It's Christmas?"-Barenaked Ladies

Dennis Landmann moved to California in the summer of 1997. Dennis was always interested in movies and TV. He would go to the movies practically every weekend, seeing both good and bad films. Then, about a year later, he started to look at movies differently, having read numerous Web sites that offered reviews and such. He became interested in reviewing movies himself. At the time he was focused on writing his first screenplay. He did not take up reviewing movies until early 1999 when he created MovieFreak.com in April that year.

"The way I looked at movies by that point was to actually deconstruct them by the effectiveness of story and script, filmmaking, acting, production, etc.," Landmann states.

"Watching movies with a critical mind was an interesting experience. I realized how easy a movie can entertain someone who's just watching the screen but not necessarily thinking what they're seeing. Anyway that was what made me want to review movies."

Movie Freak started out very small and had a basic design. Landmann would add quips about movies he saw and featured on the site movie release dates, news, box office, scripts, trailers, and so on.

"I really got going by about the end of 2001 when another website, whose owner I met once, told me about reviewing DVDs. He was on the list with Paramount, and so that sounded really cool - get free DVDs, watch them, review, and keep them," he said.

"Then in April 2002 I realized I could probably get on with the other studios, scoring Sony, MGM, FOX and Sony. Later that year followed Warner Bros and New Line.

"The thing about reviewing DVDs is you have to provide them with the site's traffic statistics. They really like 1 million unique visitors a month, but I didn't quite reach that, though I had enough to be able to get reviews out to a large audience…."


Karen Liberman
Executive Director,Mood Disorders Association of Ontario (MDAO)

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Karen Liberman is the Executive Director of the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario. Karen is a long time community activist and planner, workshop presenter, group facilitator, and social justice advocate. Karen is a well-known presenter on the topic of mood disorders, mental illness, stigma, and, above all, recovery. Karen has been honoured by Chatelaine as a Health Hero and by the Royal Bank of Canada for her working combating the stigma of mental illness. Recently, Karen was featured on the nationally televised CTV documentary “Fighting the Dragon”. Karen is also a 2003 “ Courage to Come Back” Award recipient. Most recently, Karen received the 2004 Ontario Psychological Association’s Public Service Award for her outstanding contribution to psychological well-being of the citizens of Ontario and the Toastmasters International 2005 Communication and Leadership Award. Karen is a family member and a consumer survivor who has recovered from a decade long battle with severe clinical depression. Karen has spoken across Canada about her own journey and her battle against the illness, the darkness, the secrecy, and above all, the stigma. Karen has often said she will “go anywhere and speak to anyone” on the topic of mood disorders, recovery, and hope.


Ken Mogg

For several years Ken Mogg was in charge of film studies in the Film/TV Department, College of Advanced Education, Melbourne University, Australia.

He has always lived in Melbourne. Mr. Mogg took his Arts Honours degree at Monash University, where he picked up a University Prize in English and helped found and run the university's Film Group. Later, he began work on a Master's thesis about Alfred Hitchcock but didn't complete it. Frankly, for Ken, writing the thesis felt like trying to cram the Pacific Ocean into a wine glass!

He had begun to notice how certain academic ways and mindsets are theory-bound or worse.1 Like the good yoga student I aspired to be, I wanted to see things whole and 'as they really are'.

But afterwards Mogg resumed study for another degree and a diploma. Consequently he taught Film and English at both university and secondary-school levels. My main teaching-interests have been Hitchcock movies, Indian and Japanese cinema, the 19th-century novel, and just ideas generally (though not for their own sake - more for keeping aware of the limits of perception) ...

Ken's yoga teacher of many years, Shri Vijayedev Yogendra (his father founded the 'modern' yoga movement in Bombay in the 1920s), was a big influence. So, too, has been a very good friend, Freda Freiberg (an authority on Japanese cinema, women's issues, and the Holocaust).

Ken's favourite filmmakers other than Hitchcock include both Kubrick and Ozu, Lean and Bresson, Hawks and Satyajit Ray ...

Alfred Hitchcock once sent Ken a copy of Truffaut's book about him. In 1975, on a flying visit to Hollywood, I watched Hitchcock direct the airport scene in Family Plot. He also got to meet and interview Edith Head, Albert Whitlock, and John Michael Hayes, and visited such interesting places as the Mission San Juan Bautista, San Francisco (certain sites!), Santa Rosa, and Bodega Bay ...

At the end of 1990, Mogg had time to start a Film/Alfred Hitchcock Special Interest Group (SIG) for Australian Mensa, and to begin editing the SIG's quarterly 'newsletter', called 'The MacGuffin'. I drew on my experience as both a teacher and a freelance writer.

In 1995, Ken's brother-in-law, Malcolm Parks, instructed me in using a home PC and accessing the World Wide Web. Until then, 'The MacGuffin' had been produced on a small Smith-Corona word-processor. In 1998, Mogg was invited by David Barraclough of Titan Books in London to write 'The Alfred Hitchcock Story'. The book received excellent reviews, perhaps the nicest being Dan Auiler's which appears elsewhere on this website. He continues to enjoy, and value, ideas (but not for their own sake) ... You can find out more at The MacGuffin page for Alfred Hitchcock Scholars


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A Conversation on Film History With Mr. Bill Sturrup

Mr. Bill Sturrup is the president of The Toronto Film Society. Mr. Sturrup has been involved in broadcasting for 40 years. He recently retired after working for Hamilton's AM 900 CHML in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A film buff since 6-years-old he was hooked on the movies early when he saw serials of Superman at the local theaters. Mr. Sturrup remembers being able to sit at a theater for several hours seeing short after short, serial after serial all for one price. He speaks to us about today's movies, theaters, and gives his advice on what young people can do Mr. Sturrup educates us about films of the past, the best directors, actors to study and what teens can do now before college in studying film. The Toronto Film Society started in 1958 dedicated to the appreication and preservation of film. Now in its 58th season the society began its 2005-2006 season on October 16th with two film series to choose from. If in the Toronto area Mr. Sturrup invites people to write Reel Talk at the e-mail address above. To get in touch with the Toronto Film Society please see their Web page at www.interlog.com/~tfs for more information.


Thomas “Tommy the Clown” Johnson
RIZE the movie

As one who was raised in South Central, Los Angeles, Thomas “Tommy the Clown” Johnson spent his early adulthood finding himself in and out of trouble and on a road to nowhere. Little did he know that a desperate phone call from a friend in 1992 to provide entertainment for her child’s birthday party would lead him on a successful life-changing journey. Kids were immediately drawn to Tommy’s energetic personality and wanted to dance with him. He soon created the Hip Hop Clowns, a crew of neighborhood kids who perform with him at the parties and events.

Known these days as the “Father of Krumping” – freestyle dancing that is best described as raw and natural – Tommy the Clown found a way to relate to today’s youth on their level and in their language. Tommy quickly became a positive role model for the kids in South Central and created the Battle Zone to provide an alternative outlet for the kids in the community to battle it out on the dance floor instead of the streets. Tommy continues the battles every third Saturday of every month at Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles – a non-profit dance studio where kids from the community can train in all forms of dance.

Tommy the Clown emerged as a community icon and was asked to be a spokesperson for Governor Gray Davis’ Census Campaign which involved outreach to schools, neighborhood questionnaire assistance centers and statewide agencies which succeeded with the highest mail-in response rates in four decades. He formed strategic partnerships with counties and cities, all while delivering smiles and laughter. Tommy’s movement is the subject of David La Chappelle’s short film, KRUMPED and long-form feature film, RIZE released nationwide June 2005 and slated for international release beginning October 2005. Truly an entertainer for all ages, Tommy the Clown’s life mission is to continue to reach out to communities all over the world and spread his positive influence.

WWW.TOMMYTHECLOWN.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION.


BETTY JO TUCKER
LEAD CRITIC REELTALKREVIEWS.COM
song Devil's Party by INXS from their new album Switch

BETTY JO TUCKER (LEAD CRITIC REELTALKREVIEWS.COM)

Betty Jo Tucker, author of SUSAN SARANDON: A TRUE MAVERICK, the first book about Sarandon written by a film critic, enjoys discussing her insights about one of America’s most controversial celebrities. In her new book, Tucker explores such questions as why the passionate and outspoken Sarandon chose acting as a career, how she selects her roles, why she promotes so many social and political causes and how critics rate her body of work. The result is a fascinating portrait of an actress who’s become an American icon. Phil Hall, book editor for The New York Resident, calls Tucker’s book a bravura accomplishment that “captures the full essence of Sarandon’s world.”

A retired college dean, Betty Jo Tucker currently serves as Lead Film Critic for ReelTalk Movie Reviews and writes film commentary for The Romance Club as well as for the Colorado Senior Beacon. Her first movie-related book, CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE ADDICT, received rave reviews from fans and critics alike. She helped found the San Diego Film Critics Society and is a member of the prestigious Online Film Critics Society (OFCS). She is the resident movie reviewer for Laura Mills-Alcott’s Much Ado about Books radio talk show on Voice America and can also be heard each week in a lively discussion about movies on the Louisiana Live radio show. In October of last year Betty Jo was appointed instructor of an online course entitled “The Reel Deal: Writing about Movies” for the new Long Story Short School of Writing.

Because of a passion for film, Betty Jo and her husband Larry, who co-authored a little romantic memoir called "It Had To Be Us" (under the pseudonyms of Harry & Elizabeth Lawrence), see approximately 200 movies a year. They live—where else—only ten minutes away from the only multiplex theater in Pueblo, Colorado.

Film Critic Betty Jo Tucker's books Susan Sarandon: A True Maverick and Confessions of A Movie Addict can be ordered through Amazon or the Barnes and Noble Web site in The United States. In Canada they are available through www.AMAZON.CA. It Had To Be Us can be purchased through giving a donation of any amount to the Imagination Library. Visit The Romance Club to donate.


Jeff Kenny and Steve Andrews of West Point

In August of 2004, Westpoint cemented their current line up with the addition of singer Mordy Harroch, ending a grueling audition process that had spanned 14 months and over 50 auditions. The next several months would see Westpoint both refining songs from a large backlog of material and incorporating Mordy's new compositions into the band's regular repertoire.

Formed in early 2000, the band's five years together have seen them develop their performing and songwriting to an exceptionally professional and world-class level. It is this un-paralleled determination, love for the art and craft of rock and roll, and drive for success that has allowed Westpoint to remain continually ahead of their contemporaries in a time when so many bands are merely a flash in the pan.

Through endless live performance and touring, Westpoint has been able to develop their performances into an energy-driven, yet musically mature display of passion and technique that draws the audience in and refuses to let go. They have played a score of Southern Ontario's most revered and legendary venues including: Lee's Palace, The Horseshoe Tavern, The Reverb, The 360, The Drake Hotel, The Underground, Big Bucks Mountain Lodge and The Casbah.

Westpoint has also received critical acclaim from Southern Ontario rock radio. In 2002, the band entered the 97.7 New Rock Search, reaching the semi-finals along with only 15 other bands (including The Trews and The Miniatures) from over 200 entries. The following year, Toronto's Edge 102.1 would also take notice, selected by radio personality Barry Taylor as one of 3 bands to compete in the Edge Extreme Band Slam.

2005 promises to be a marquee year for Westpoint. The band's forthcoming release, "Love and Comfort In a Time of Confuse" has already been hailed by listeners as a marvel of songwriting and self-production. This latest release also marks the first time that Westpoint's music will be commercially available to the public. The band plans to tour at great length to support their record and foster their ever-increasing fan base. Look for the band to appear live in a city near you soon.

West Point on the Internet: Official Site; My Space Site; audiences can watch a live performance at www.westpointrock.com/bleedamerican.html!


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    A Note About the Rating System:

    The United States has, by law, one rating system NC-17, R, PG-13, PG, G; ratings that are static. To earn an R in the United States all you need is a four letter word used more than once and a brief flash of nudity and nothing sensual. In Canada and U.K. they have regional systems that are not the same across the country. In Ontario, Canada your R rating is our 14-A rating which means 14-year-olds can get in as there is nothing sensual or objectionable in content. Then we have PG (Parental Guidance), G (General) and 18-A is NC-17 which means adult on the borderline of dirty. So, unless an R rated picture from the U.S. has a ton of objectionable content I will review it here knowing teens can rent all of the films. ~Geoffrey


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