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Angela Vint
Angela Vint is a Canadian actress."Angela Vint" ''Northern Stars''. She is most noted for her television role as Ziggy McLeod in '' Traders'', for which she was a nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traders (TV Series)
''Traders'' is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1996 to 2000 and CBC Television from 1997 to 1998. The series centred on the employees of Gardner Ross, an investment bank in the Bay Street financial district of Toronto, Ontario. Series overview Although Global had locked up most of NBC's " Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama '' ER'' to rival CTV. ''Traders'' was broadcast against ''ER'' in the 10 p.m. Thursday time slot. Many critics at the time believed the show would die an early death against the time slot competition, as ''ER'' had even beaten the other American networks in the time slot in a convincing manner. However, despite the stiff competition, ''Traders'' received good ratings, in part thanks to its lead-ins. Bruce Gray and Sonja Smits starred as the firm's senior partners, Adam Cunningham and Sally Ross. The cast also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Murder (Canadian TV Series)
''Blue Murder'' is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes. Plot ''Blue Murder'' is about a group of police detectives trying to solve murders in Toronto. Episodes Cast * Mimi Kuzyk as Deputy Chief-of-Police Kay Barrow * Joel S. Keller as Det. Ed Oosterhuis * Jeremy Ratchford as Det. Jack Pogue (2001–2003) * Maria del Mar as Insp. Victoria Castillo (2001–2002) * Catherine Black as Andrea Cowlings (2001) * John Boylan as the Deputy Chief of Police Talbot * Maurice Dean Wint as Cpl. Nathaniel Sweet (2002) * Benz Antoine as Det. Jim Weeks (2003–2004) * Tamara Hickey as Det. Karen Gilliam (2003) * Kari Matchett as Det. Elaine Bender (2004) * Tracy Waterhouse as Det. Ronnie Stahl (2004) Story department * Steve Lucas – Co-Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Final Conflict
Final Conflict is an American hardcore punk band from Long Beach, California, United States, formed in 1983. They have gone through various lineup changes with the only constant member being original guitar player (and founder) Jeff Harp. Final Conflict is regarded as one of the first extreme hardcore punk Hardcore punk (also known as simply hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk ... bands from Southern California. They incorporated a British-style hardcore punk rock at a time when the punk rock scene was at its weakest popularity. Their perseverance and dedicated fan base helped spark a Los Angeles and Orange County punk rock revival of sorts during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Final Conflict have stayed active and relevant thru the years touring and releasing new material. In 2013 Final Conflict reunit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psi Factor
''Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal'' is a Canadian science fiction drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000. In 1996, Christopher Chacon and Peter Aykroyd co-created the show. Plot The series was hosted by Dan Aykroyd, who presents dramatic stories inspired by the paranormal investigations of the "Office of Scientific Investigation and Research" (O.S.I.R.). Season one The first season introduces members of the O.S.I.R. team, including case managers Conner Doyle ( Paul Miller) and Curtis Rollins (Maurice Dean Wint), senior data analyst Lindsay Donner ( Nancy Anne Sakovich), physicist Peter Axon (Barclay Hope), Dr. Anton Hendricks ( Colin Fox) as well as various other investigators that rotate with each new case. The first season uses elements that are later dropped in subsequent seasons, most notably featuring two unlinked cases per episode. The first season features mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Third Twin
''The Third Twin'' is a techno-thriller by the British writer Ken Follett published in 1996. A ''New York Times'' bestseller, the book deals with genetic engineering and the nature and nurture debate through the subject of identical twins raised apart. Plot summary Jeannie Ferrami, Psy.D., is an associate professor and criminality researcher at the fictional Jones Falls University, an Ivy League school in Baltimore, Maryland. She studies the influence of genetics (rather than upbringing) on personality. Her interest in criminal tendencies is influenced by the fact that her father, Pete, is an incarcerated burglar. Financially strained, she sends her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother to live in a sub-par nursing home. Jeannie's friend Lisa Hoxton is raped during the evacuation of an on-campus locker room. The police determine that the perpetrator was a serial rapist who simulated a fire. Lisa works with sympathetic police Lt. Michelle Delaware to create a facial composite of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis Meets Nixon
''Elvis Meets Nixon'' is a 1997 Canadian-American mockumentary film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Rick Peters, Bob Gunton, and Alyson Court. It is an embellished account of the true story of American singer Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon on December 21, 1970. Plot Elvis Presley, bored with his confined existence in Graceland, leaves his home on his own for the first time since he was 21. He winds up in California and is convinced by an Anti-war activist that he is responsible for the counterculture through his influence on The Beatles. This prompts Elvis to write a letter to President Nixon asking to be made a "Federal Agent at Large" for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. No such position actually exists, but Nixon, wanting desperately to win over the youth of America, which he views as hating him, decides to meet with Elvis in an attempt to improve his image with the "kids". Cast Background On December 19, 1970, Presley was confronted by h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Femme Nikita (TV Series)
''La Femme Nikita'' (, literally "The Woman Nikita"; called ''Nikita'' in Canada) is a Canadian action-drama television series based on the French film ''Nikita'' by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was telecast in the United States on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for five seasons until March 4, 2001. The series was also aired in Canada on the over-the-air CTV Television Network. ''La Femme Nikita'' was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries. Comparison with the film In the original Luc Besson film (and in the American remake ''Point of No Return'' (also released as ''The Assassin''), also released by Warner Bros.), Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who kills a police officer in cold blood duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimmer Lake
''Shimmer Lake'' is a 2017 American neo-noir crime film written and directed by Oren Uziel. The film stars Benjamin Walker, Wyatt Russell, Rainn Wilson, Adam Pally, John Michael Higgins, Ron Livingston, Stephanie Sigman, and Rob Corddry. The film was released on Netflix on June 9, 2017. Walker plays a small-town sheriff who investigates a bank robbery that involves his brother and two former friends. The story is told in reverse. Plot On Friday, Andy Sikes cleans up in his basement, while his wife, Martha, speaks to his brother, sheriff Zeke Sikes above. When his young daughter, Sally, comes down to the basement, he silences her and makes her promise not to reveal his presence. Suspicious, Zeke investigates, but Andy escapes by stealing a neighbor's car. Zeke, revealed to have been shot during a bank robbery in which Andy participated, picks up his partner, Reed Ethington, and meets with FBI agents Kyle Walker and Kurt Biltmore. They investigate the house of judge Brad Dawkins, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Sloane
''Miss Sloane'' is a 2016 political thriller film directed by John Madden and written by Jonathan Perera. The film stars Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alison Pill, Jake Lacy, John Lithgow, and Sam Waterston. The film follows Elizabeth Sloane, a fierce lobbyist, who fights in an attempt to pass gun control legislation. The film had its world premiere on November 11, 2016, at the AFI Fest, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 25, 2016, by EuropaCorp, before expanding wide on December 9, 2016. It was released in France on March 8, 2017. It received generally positive reviews, with Chastain's performance being particularly praised. It was a box office disappointment, grossing only $9 million against its $13–18 million budget. Plot Elizabeth Sloane is a workaholic cutthroat lobbyist who has been called before a congressional hearing led by Senator Ronald Sperling to answer questions about possible violations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Legend (film)
''Urban Legend'' is a 1998 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, and starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, and Michael Rosenbaum, and is the first installment in the ''Urban Legend'' film series. Its plot focuses on a series of murders on the campus of a private New England university, all of which appear to be modeled after popular urban legends. In addition to its younger cast, the film features supporting performances from Robert Englund, Loretta Devine, John Neville, and Brad Dourif. Filmed in Toronto in the spring of 1998, ''Urban Legend'' was released in the United States on September 25, 1998. It grossed $72.5 million worldwide on a budget of $14 million, and received generally negative reviews from critics, with chief criticisms being that the film was a blatant rip-off of ''Scream'' (1996). The film has been credited by both cinema and folklore scholars as being one of the first major films to redistribute the urban leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)
''The Handmaid's Tale'' is an American dystopian television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The series was ordered by the streaming service Hulu as a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes, for which production began in late 2016. The plot features a dystopia following a Second American Civil War wherein a theonomic, totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called " Handmaids", to child-bearing slavery. The first three episodes of the series premiered on April 26, 2017; the subsequent seven episodes were released every Wednesday. In July 2019, the series was renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on April 27, 2021. In September 2019, it was announced that Hulu and MGM were developing a sequel series, to be based on Atwood's 2019 novel ''The Testaments''. In December 2020, ahead of the fourth season premiere, the series was renewed for a fifth season, which premiered on September 14, 2022. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murdoch Mysteries
''Murdoch Mysteries'' is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on Citytv on January 20, 2008, and currently airs on CBC. The series is based on characters from the ''Detective Murdoch'' novels by Maureen Jennings and stars Yannick Bisson as the fictional William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The series was titled ''The Artful Detective'' on the Ovation cable TV network in the United States, until season twelve. Synopsis The series takes place in Toronto starting in 1895 and follows Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) of the Toronto Constabulary, who solves many of his cases using methods of detection that were unusual at the time. These methods include fingerprinting (referred to as "finger marks" in the series), blood testing, surveillance, and trace evidence. Some episodes feature anachronistic technology whereby Murdoch sometimes uses the existing technology of his time to improvise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
