• Jake on Jake

    My own worst Enemy

    For all the compelling enigmas permeating Quebec director Denis Villeneuve’s latest and finest film (all arachnid appearances are duly noted), t...

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    Ann Vriend finds the soul of the city on For ...

    Ann Vriend was home alone one day last summer, sequestered in the top floor of her house with headphones on, when she heard someone moving around the ...

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    A fish out of water

    One of the great things about walking around downtown Vancouver is that, if you suddenly have a hankering for sushi and/or its ancillaries, there̵...

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    Inside the institution

    Somehow the Visitation and Correspondence room inside the Edmonton Institute for Women manages to be sunny and bright and bland and depressing all at ...

My own worst Enemy

For all the compelling enigmas permeating Quebec director Denis Villeneuve’s latest and finest film (all arachnid appearances are duly noted), there is something pleasingly unambiguous about its title. Mining an anxiety so primal as to require no explanation within the film itself, Enemy is about the terror of seeing yourself duplicated, of discovering another with…