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Endless Cookie review – Cheech and Chong meet Tristram Shandy in trippy tales of First Nations life

By Phil Hoad

An animator records the shaggy dog stories of his Indigenous brother in a loopy, hallucinatory animation The call for better self-representation for minorities in cinema has been loud and long over the last decade, and if it means more left-field work like this loopy, brain-fried but thoroughly affable animation about the lives of a Canadian Cree Indigenous family, then keep it coming. Roughly describable as Cheech and Chong meet Tristram Shandy, Endless Cookie consistently interrupts itself...