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Inside Vancouver’s abandoned WATCHMEN set

Here are three things you might enjoy about the film Watchmen (2009), directed by Zack Snyder that was shot in Vancouver: A overly-visually faithful representation of a brilliant 1986 comic book miniseries (that never needed to be a movie) So many uses of the Most Obvious Song possible for many scenes, excluding: One of the […]

January 29, 2020May 31, 2020

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X-FILES x Ovaltine Cafe

It’s kind of unreal that the Ovaltine Café still exists. The timeless diner doesn’t look like it’s changed much since it opened in 1942, even though the area around the Vancouver DTES institution definitely has. Even the cafe’s legendary for its old timey menu prices. That the Ovaltine and its iconic neon seems frozen in […]

January 2, 2020May 31, 2020

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