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A dog lover’s cinematic delight, Spielberg’s dip back into the 1980s and another expose of a financial racket

Also the emotional life story of a BC slam poet, and three new films from France (one about the country our peacekeepers are going to)

Vancouver mining executives trapped in their rooms as gunmen stormed Mali hotel

Employees of mining company B2Gold Corp. were trapped in their hotel rooms in Bamako for seven hours as Islamist terrorists stormed the building.