Thank you Air Canada!Two recent Ottawa-Calgary and return flights
allowed me to watch several highly anticipated movies yet to screen in
Ottawa—from South Korea Burning, and
from Quebec The Fireflies are Gone.A small seatback screen to be sure, but
welcome given the months of waiting since I missed both at last September’s
Toronto film festival. First, however, a look at the latest nature story from
Disneynature that I took my brother Roger to see a week ago Earth Day while in
Saskatoon for a successful April 24 launch of my film book at the McNally
Robinson store. Penguins(https://nature.disney.com/penguins) For over a decade Disney Nature has been
releasing animal stories around Earth Day. This one, helmed by Alastair
Fothergill and Jeff Wilson, is the 13th and focuses on the
adventures of a pint-sized Adélie penguin it names “Steve”.We can be amused by the typical two-footed
penguin waddle on land and ice compared to their speedy ocean diving and porpoising
across the waves. Steve fi…

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