by potential | Apr 11, 2018 | Leadership, Pop Culture Career Advice
We’re a fickle, precious bunch here in Vancouver. We consistently rank amongst the best places in the world to live, yet we never run out of reasons to point out what needs fixing. We’re thankful not to have a highway pummeling through the city but we hate the endless...
by Kurt Heinrich | Apr 4, 2018 | Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice
My wife and I love zombie movies and Netflix has one our favourites. Resident Evil is based on a zombie-hunting video game by Capcom. In the film, the Umbrella Corporation – a company of profound political and economic power – operates a secret research facility...
by John Horn | Mar 28, 2018 | Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice
Many of the Fast & Furious movies are showing up on Canadian Netflix. All the way up to Fast Five, I think. For the record, I still haven’t seen the eighth one, but I have read The Ringer staff’s exit survey about it. After re-watching the first few films (in the...
by Kurt Heinrich | Feb 14, 2018 | Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice
It’s Valentines Day today and I recently watched Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts light up the screen and box office with the romantic comedy Notting Hill on Netflix. In case you missed it, the film tells the story of ordinary William Thacker, an everyday English...
by Kurt Heinrich | Jan 24, 2018 | Business & Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Pop Culture Career Advice
Made in America tells the fictionalized (or Tom-Cruise-ified) story of Barry Seal, a maverick TWA pilot who, in the 1970s, gave up the monotony of flying commercial planes to fly missions for the CIA in Central America. In the film, what begins as hot-shot spy...
by Kurt Heinrich | Jan 10, 2018 | Adaptability, Futureproof Kids, Pop Culture Career Advice
Terminator 2: Judgment Day was one of the first movies that moved me to tears. When John Connor slowly lowers his T800 Terminator into the cauldron of molten, flaming steel I experienced one of the film’s most emotional lines: “I know now why you cry.” When Arnold...