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Theo Fleury: Playing With Fire (Canada) explores how dark childhood secrets affected an NHL superstar
 

Theo Fleury: Playing With Fire (Canada) explores how dark childhood secrets affected an NHL superstar

Photograph by: Supplied photo , timescolonist.com

Not sure what to see at this year's Victoria Film Festival? Here's a list of films you might want to check out.

Edwin Boyd. Montreal director Nathan Morlando's promising feature debut stars Scott Speedman as the notorious bank robber described as Canada's John Dillinger. Local interest: Boyd died in Victoria 10 years ago.

A Little Bit Zombie. Toronto filmmaker Casey Walker's Canuck-flavoured spoof of zombie movies makes its world première Saturday at the Odeon.

Theo Fleury: Playing With Fire. The former NHL superstar and sexual-abuse survivor as you've never seen him before - as a no longer booze-and-drugs-fuelled movie star whose controversial personal and professional lives are chronicled in Matt Embry's new documentary.

Vigilante, Vigilante. The Canadian première of Max Good's documentary about anti-graffiti vigilantes who are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore should strike a chord locally.

Bullhead (Rundskop). Belgium's official nomination for Oscar's best foreign-language-film competition is Michael R. Roskam's drama focusing on the rivalry between gangsters in the high-stakes drugs-for-cattle business.

To Make a Farm. Another homage to the slow food movement, Steve Suderman's documentary focuses on young people who take up farming to effect social change. If you need to whet your appetite, you can do the Feast and Film package that includes a three-course dinner showcasing local cuisine at Spinnakers before the film's Monday screening at Empire Capitol 6.

Foreverland. Max Thieriot, Gary Farmer, Matt Frewer and Juliette Lewis star in Max McGuire's darkly comic twist on the classic Canadian road movie, in which a man with cystic fibrosis goes on a pilgrimage to Mexico for an encounter with a faith healer said to have the ability to cure any disease. Filmed in part in Ucluelet and Tofino last year.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Theo Fleury: Playing With Fire (Canada) explores how dark childhood secrets affected an NHL superstar
 

Theo Fleury: Playing With Fire (Canada) explores how dark childhood secrets affected an NHL superstar

Photograph by: Supplied photo, timescolonist.com

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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