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Bad Things Happen When Fans Get Behind the Cameranew

Digital democratization of the means of film production has brought us to the point where every subculture on the planet seems to have generated its own documentary. Formlessness and boosterism afflict all of these films to some damaging degree, but Until the Light Takes Us is in a class of its own for wasted cinematic potential.
Chicago Reader  |  Cliff Doerksen  |  07-27-2009  |  Reviews

'Babylon A.D.' is True to its Literary Source Only in Being Badnew

The film is based on Babylon Babies, a 2001 cyberpunk novel by Maurice G. Dantec, a Frenchman who now lives in Montreal, having renounced France as a sinkhole of secularism and socialism too decadent to protect itself from slow-motion takeover by Islamic immigrants.
Chicago Reader  |  Cliff Doerksen  |  09-08-2008  |  Reviews

Serial-Killer Expert Helen Morrison Debunked

The media have taken this self-proclaimed profiler at face value, but her story doesn't stand up to scrutiny (although she does have John Gacy's brain in her basement).
Chicago Reader  |  Cliff Doerksen  |  08-07-2004  |  Media

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