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- Miriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a burgeoning love-affair coincides with her receiving a series of oddly threatening letters, Miriam's sheltered existence is cracked open.
- On a cold winter's night, Lynn's quest for a one night stand is complicated when the guy she goes home with lives two hours away via public transit.
- Tenzin struggles to come to terms with the loss of his brother who self-immolates as a form of nonviolent protest of the treatment of Tibetans living under the current Chinese occupation.
- A young marine navigation student suffers intense anxiety during his final exams, when an incident from his past returns to both haunt and help him.
- Billy Talent: Hits Live is a concert film that was shot over three nights in Toronto and Montreal in 2013. One of the most energetic live bands of their time, Billy Talent delivers a must-see performance for their fans.
- The Wizard of Oz is one of the most beloved films in the history of cinema, but its legacy is continually trailed by a mysterious darkness that seems at odds with the fanciful images presented on screen. Authors Aljean Harmetz and Stephen Cox discuss Margaret Hamilton's fiery mishap and address the rumors of drunken Munchkins tearing up the Culver hotel. Special effects designer and famed mythbuster Adam Savage explains how the Tin Man's makeup nearly killed the actor originally cast in the role. Certified Oz expert Gregg Turkington breaks down the notorious legend of the hanging munchkin, while Lorna Luft sets the record straight on the treatment of her mother, Judy Garland, by the studio behind the production of Oz.
- Rosemary's Baby hit theaters in 1968 in the midst of a political and cultural revolution in America. Its young director, Roman Polanski, created one of the most iconic horror films in history, seemingly drawing upon his own dark past in a film that's strangely connected to a number of tragic stories, starting with an unexpected death of a composer and leading to one of America's most notorious true crime cases: The Manson Family murders. Dianne "Snake" Lake recounts her time with the family and its connections to Rosemary's Baby, while photographer Julian Wasser shares his experience photographing Polanski as he explored the crime scene of the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, and their unborn child.
- An examination of the troubled making of Andrei Tarkovsky's sci-fi masterwork Stalker, and the disasters that beset the production: damaged film stock, earthquakes, and an illness that be set the cast and crew after the films release.
- Wes Craven and his crew set out on a great adventure; the staging of a major motion picture production in Haiti at the tail end of a violent political revolution. The film, The Serpent and the Rainbow, is based on the true experiences of anthropologist Wade Davis, who details his unbelievable search for an elusive "zombie powder", and the complicated relationship he has with Craven's interpretation of his story. Producer David Ladd and actors Bill Pullman and Cathy Tyson recount the challenges and strange occurrences they experienced on set.
- Cursed Films travels to Roma, Italy to discuss the making of what is arguably the most controversial horror film ever made. Writer/Director Ruggero Deodato discusses the film's concept, through its creation, including the famous court case that saw him defending himself for the murder of a performer in the heart of the Amazon. Meanwhile, his cast and crew detail the struggles they faced while trying to meet the expectations of a demanding director, who continually pushed them towards their breaking point.
- Going into the 1950s, the Campuses anticipate that the gender roles from the previous decade remain which means Tristan will still be alone in the kitchen much of the time, that they will still be eating dinner together as a family around the formal dining room table, but that the mood will be much lighter and happier than it was the previous decade. While all these things are true, that latter item for Tristan is tempered when she learns that there is an extra expectation on her to keep the appearance of the perfect house just in case anyone should stop by unexpectedly. Beyond the manual, Tristan is provided an extra guide to ensure she does do what the 1950s housewife was expected to do. As the decade progresses, things will arguably get easier for Tristan in the kitchen. First, middle class families would occasionally go out for dinner, often to Chinese-Canadian restaurants, which belied the racism that still existed exhibited by the middle class suburbs being predominantly white. Second, more and more electrical appliances and gadgets would become available making kitchen work easier. These included storage containers leading to the ubiquitous "Tupperware party" to allow housewives to socialize more and earn some pocket money in the process. And third, more and more convenience foods came on the market to make dinner preparation easier, from box cake mixes to frozen foods that just needed to be defrosted and reheated. Valerie and Jessica believe they receive the short end of the stick compared to Robert when it comes to their "free time" activities, although they all, closer to the end of the decade, will begin to socialize at the precursor to the fast food restaurant: the diner. The men's duties around the house took on a more serious nature associated with the geopolitical tensions of the time. Aaron's responsibilities with regard to what is ingested take their first steps with his role as bartender in the era of the cocktail party. And what resembles what they are used to in twenty-first century life may first arguably come with a big box in their living room and the food and folding miniature tables associated with it.
- Walking into the house for the first time, the Campuses can immediately tell that the 1960s will be lighter and more fun, which it will be to reflect the more open attitudes that emerge. Tristan is still stuck in the kitchen - at least in the beginning of the decade - but will have a new cooking guide in the form of Julia Child, who brought gourmet French food, previously solely the domain of swanky restaurants, into the home kitchen. Tristan will also have more help in the form of what she's used to in modern day: processed foods to enable cooking short cuts, including the space aged mashed potato flakes. By mid-decade, Italian became the new food trend with the onset of what is now considered the go to dinners of pasta or pizza. The end result of these food changes is that Tristan will now have more time to spend with the family in more fun pursuits. Fashion and style of the decade is influenced by the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy and The Beatles. The Campus kids move from the 1950s hangout of the diner to the 1960s hangout of the coffee house, which was the hotbed of politically charged folk music and protest. Tristan's emergence from the kitchen is in part due to the rise of feminism, with Aaron taking on this first real role in cooking, although his designated cooking appliance, the charcoal barbecue, is a different beast than the gas powered barbecue to which he is used. Celebratory themed meals are served for two milestone occasions: Canada's centennial in 1967 - which has its own emotional issues for Aaron in being part indigenous, that part which was stripped from his mother in marrying a non-indigenous person - and the Apollo 11 moonwalk in 1969.
- The 1970s will be a first, at least for Aaron and Tristan, as a decade which they originally did live through, and can remember. Cool is a word they all use to describe the style at least of their house. With much uncertainty in the world, the home became a person's sanctuary, and there was the want for comfort, even in food with the rise of the slow cooker. With women starting to go to work, men started to assist in domestic duties, although under the guidance of the wife. The working wife also led to the rise of latch-key kids, who were often left with convenience foods - such as instant mac and cheese - as an easy to make after school snack. One of the most well-remembered events of the early 1970s was the 1972 Canada-Russia summit series, which turned out not only to be a measure of hockey supremacy, but a geopolitical gauge of the supremacy of democracy versus communism. The federal policy of multiculturalism led in part to great immigration, resulting in a more ethnically diverse array of restaurant choices, especially Indian (i.e. South Asian) restaurants. Such a meal hits home with part South Asian Tristan, who grew up with such food. Later in the decade, the health movement took hold, health and supposed health foods which became more popular. What made life more complicated, in addition in the kitchen, was the onset of the metric system. The latest 1970s was known specifically by one fad: disco. Disco soon was paired with roller skating to form roller disco. The Campuses end the decade with an extended family dinner with new latest food trend: the fondue. With computers and cell phones still decades away, the Campus kids are stuck with the fads of the day to keep themselves preoccupied during their free time, from macrame, to riding banana seat bicycles, to space balls, to being mesmerized by mood rings. And by the end of the decade, Tristan is arguably the happiest she has been during the whole experiment up to this point.
- The Campuses enter their home for the first time this decade to find the décor is all glass, brass and lacquer to reflect the new prosperity and openness of the era, that prosperity especially by who will be coined yuppies, the more affluent of the baby boomers. For the first time in the experiment, Tristan is banished from the kitchen in the preparation of the first meal, it, iconic to females of the time, which will ironically be prepared by the males. Men in the kitchen does not mean that the women's domestic duties were usurped. The new sense of adventure, which extended to cooking gourmet at home with more and more kitchen gadgets and people getting new ideas from cooking classes, was balanced by a new health trend as baby boomers were approaching the middle age bulge, that health both in diet and exercise. The former includes meatless meals with the use of non-animal protein ingredients such as tofu. The latter saw the onset of aerobics for women, and pumping iron for men, both while adorned in spandex. The mid-80s saw the rise of Japanese food, the California roll the gateway to the more adventurous raw fish sushi. What arguably changed the family dynamic was the introduction of the tech gadgets of the home video game console, hand held electronic games, and the videocassette recorder (VCR), which revolutionized the way people watched television. The late-80s saw another revolutionary kitchen appliance hit the market, the microwave oven which led to complete meals being cooked in such. Cultural novelties include Trivial Pursuit, friendship pins (the equivalent today of friending someone on Facebook), the pogo ball, and painting à la Bob Ross style. A style icon, especially for girls Valerie and Jessica's age, was Madonna, with big curly hair and bangs, and overtly sexualized feminine items mixed with overtly masculine items. The Campuses last meal of the decade is something with which they are more familiar in present day: the home delivered meal, specifically of the Canadian invention of the Hawaiian pizza.
- The Campuses enter the last decade of the experiment to find their house is designed for comfort and relaxation as people begin to see their homes as their sanctuary. Domestic gods and goddesses populating the airwaves, people like Martha Stewart, show how to entertain at home in style and with flair, a small dinner party which Tristan and Aaron will be hosting for a small group of friends for their first meal of the decade. Part of that do it yourself entertaining includes the boom in wine making shops. More prepared foods and packaged foods come on the market and all you can eat buffets become popular to make life easier for the diverse family, who begin to go off in different directions in their scheduled activities. Those domestic entertaining lifestyle shows are just part of the information overload that begin with 24-hour news channels, home computers and the Internet, the combination which kept people plugged into such events as the O.J. Simpson white SUV chase. As the population ages, low impact exercise, such as power walking and step aerobics, becomes the rage. Issues such as contaminated water lead to more and more bottled water being consumed, and with it the recycling movement takes hold to deal with all that additional waste. As with most other decades, pop music influences teen style, this decade which has a more relaxed style associated with grunge, alternative rock and mainstream country, while Tristan gets a little guidance from a style icon to dress for the decade of the supermodel. Unlike other decades however, the teens, Valerie in particular, will be doing something different from the other decades: get a part-time job, specifically at an Italian coffee house where caffè lattes are de rigeur as the gateway coffee drink to the more traditional and stronger espresso, while Robert gets back what are arguably his two greatest comfort foods, chicken nuggets and hard-shelled tacos made with a packaged mix. On "December 31, 1999", the Campuses celebrate both the end of the millennium and the end of the experiment with the most lavish meal of their six decades where they will be able to discuss with Carlo their entire experience, only in knowing the outcome of the Y2K crisis that gripped the world that actual day.
- While Moira is in Bosnia filming the Crows movie that she hopes will revive her acting career, David attempts to take his relationship with Patrick to new heights.
- Johnny is hoping to ring in the holidays with a traditional Rose Christmas party like they used to. However, getting everyone to participate will be easier said than done.
- Moira loses sleep stressing over old love letters; David and Stevie get held up at the store.
- Alexis is able to secure a reservation at the motel for Emir Kaplan, an influential travel blogger specializing in writing about places and things off the beaten path. Beyond giving him extra special treatment, what Alexis, Johnny, Stevie and Roland decide to do as a team is a "hire" a plant as a fellow motel guest to talk up the greatness of the motel to him. With no money actually to hire someone to do this, they decide Stevie would be the best person in this role. Although nervous about doing it, Stevie ends up being good in the job, perhaps a little too good. Meanwhile, one too many interruptions by Ray leads to Patrick deciding that it's time for him and David to look for another apartment together. Alexis is able to convince David, despite not being totally convinced that they're ready, to take this step in moving in with Patrick. David has to balance his feelings about the first apartment they view, which Patrick loves but David hates, against not making it seem like he doesn't want to take this step with Patrick. And Jocelyn is feeling overwhelmed in meeting her commitments outside of the home, especially in preparing for an important Jazzagals performance, against her first priority of the baby. The actions of her fellow choir members may make Jocelyn feel like the one left out.
- With finances already tight, Johnny is hit with a couple of unexpected bills. One is repair of the motel's hot water tank, which if he brought in a professional as Roland suggests instead of trying to fix it himself to save money, may lead to learning that the tank needs to be replaced in its entirety. The other, which is more discretionary in nature, is a $3,700 discounted couture, albeit off the rack, gown that Moira has just purchased to wear at the premiere - whenever it may be - of "The Crows Have Eyes III", the premiere at which she needs to look good as her reintroduction to the world of celebrity. Moira's expenses are not limited to the gown but also things to keep it looking pristine until the premiere. Johnny tries to drop hint after hint to Moira that they really can't afford such a gown, the question being if Moira will pick up the hints, and if she does if she will pay attention to them. Meanwhile, on Stevie's suggestion, she and David are driving to Elm Valley to do a tour of the botanical gardens during cherry blossom time, viewing cherry blossoms which has always been therapeutic for David. Stevie has brought David to Elm Valley on false pretenses, she who has no intention of going to the gardens at all, the trip which is a prearranged booty call encounter with Emir who is reviewing the hotel at which they will be staying. David and Stevie have to decide what to do as one item after another changes both their plans. And Alexis can feel the dislike emanating from Ted's temporary associate, Shannon, who went to vet college with Ted. When Alexis learns the story behind why Shannon is feeling the way she probably does, Alexis tries to diffuse the situation. In the process, it becomes a he said/she said/she said in Ted, Shannon and Alexis each having a different and conflicting point.
- Patrick is having a housewarming party he is planning without David's help, the latter who expects it to fail because of it. It doesn't help from David's perspective that Patrick's party theme is high school slumber party instead of the slightly inaccessible higher class theme David had in mind. But in the way of many high school parties, an incident happens during the course of one of the party games between David and an extremely drunk Ted, who has decided to let loose in needing to stay sober for the rest of the week due to an extremely busy work schedule, that is construed to be akin to friends crossing the line, which affects Patrick and Alexis in particular. Meanwhile, Jocelyn and Roland have asked almost everyone in town if they would be willing to babysit, that almost which excludes Johnny and Moira. Offended that Jocelyn and Roland asked others right in front of them, Johnny ends up offering his and Moira's babysitting services, unaware that Moira already has plans for the evening which she is unwilling to forgo. But Moira does end up staying in with Johnny. The evening will demonstrate if they could have been hands-on parents to David and Alexis in their baby years.
- The Jazzagals, on Jocelyn's initiative, are going to the Poison rock concert being held at the casino. If only because of how important the concert seemed to be for Jocelyn considering that it is one night out away from the baby, they are dismayed to tell her that the concert has been postponed due to the venue being double booked. To give Jocelyn that night out, they decide to go to the casino anyway. The rock concert may have been more important to Jocelyn than she originally let on, the reason for its importance which Moira tries to satisfy in some other way. Meanwhile, Johnny, back to the motel earlier than expected from running an errand, catches Stevie on a break being intimate with Emir on her phone. Johnny and Stevie have to figure out how to deal with this incident, especially considering Johnny having recently had a workplace professionalism session with Stevie and Roland. And across the store in plain sight of David, a cute twenty-something male customer gives Patrick his telephone number. While Patrick just wants to bask in the adoration, David feels that Patrick may need to get other men out of his system now and encourages Patrick to go out on a date with "Ken". After speaking to Alexis, David may regret giving Patrick this freedom, especially as no ground rules were laid for the date.