Protection: Our Review of ‘Shayda’

Theatrical ‐ ‐ March 22, 2024
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Protection: Our Review of ‘Shayda’

For Shayda, director Noora Niasari takes inspiration from her childhood as an Australian-Iranian during the mid 1990s. She also imagines what her mother went through as the titular character (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) tries to escape a husband, Hossein (Osamah Sami), who abuses her. During one of the scenes in the film, she prepares an impact […]

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Binaries: Our Review of ‘Mami Wata’ on MUBI

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ March 21, 2024
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Binaries: Our Review of ‘Mami Wata’ on MUBI

C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s Mami Wata graced the screens of festivals like Sundance and Fantasia and is coming to MUBI. The title refers to a folk goddess that still has worshippers in communities in African countries like Nigeria. One of those fictional communities is Iyi, where Mami Wata’s priestess, Mama Efe (Rita Edochie), is losing her […]

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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘The Burning Season’

Festival Coverage, Film Festivals, Movies ‐ ‐ March 21, 2024
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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘The Burning Season’

If you’ve ever wanted to know what would happen if a charming Carley Fortune novel about young love were crossed with a twisted psychosexual drama, The Burning Season is the film for you! Told backwards, JB and Elena’s love story is a dark and upsetting tragedy. The pair have been lovers off-and-on since Elena (Sara […]

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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Wild Goat Surf’

Festival Coverage ‐ ‐ March 21, 2024
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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Wild Goat Surf’

Set during the summer of 2003, we catch up with 13-year-old Rell Anderson (Shaleyin Martin). Everyone around her Penticton home affectionately knows her as Goat. She along with,  her mother Jane (Caitlyn Sponheimer)  illegally sublet their apartment for extra cash during the busy summer months. Relegated to a mobile home in a rundown trailer park, […]

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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Valley of Exile’

Festival Coverage ‐ ‐ March 21, 2024
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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Valley of Exile’

Nour, a Syrian refugee, asks her tentmate and Palestinian-Syrian refugee, Shirin, what they do for their laundry during winter. I find that piece of conversation among many in Valley of Exile fascinating because of what it hints on. Westerners, and I’m projecting here, have a lot of expectations about refugee camps and the ecosystems around […]

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Laserblast from the Past: Our Review of ‘X-Men ’97’

Disney +, What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ March 20, 2024
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Laserblast from the Past: Our Review of ‘X-Men ’97’

Debuting this Wednesday on Disney + is the long-awaited revival of one of the most beloved cartoon series of all time, X-Men ’97.  A direct sequel to X-Men: The Animated Series, which originally lasted 76 episodes over 5 seasons between 1992 and 1997, X-Men ’97 picks up an undisclosed amount of months after the events […]

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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Place of Bones’

Festival Coverage ‐ ‐ March 20, 2024
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CFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Place of Bones’

Pandora (Heather Graham) and her daughter Hester (Brielle Robillard) live an isolated existence in the Wild West of 1876. Separated from the closest town by 90 miles, theirs is a solitary life after the passing of the family patriarch. Then one morning Hester finds Calhoun (Corin Nemic) passed out bleeding on their land. After nursing […]

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A Dysfunctional Comedy: Our Review of ‘Hailey Rose’

Movies ‐ ‐ March 20, 2024
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A Dysfunctional Comedy: Our Review of ‘Hailey Rose’

Let’s face it, dysfunctional family comedies are popular simply because we can usually see a little bit of our own lives in them. Unfortunately some of them stretch their characters to far extremes, creating an absurd mess that hardly captures reality. While in some cases these films manage to touch our hearts by giving us […]

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An Escape Room Thriller: Our Review of ‘The Path To Totality’

Movies ‐ ‐ March 19, 2024
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An Escape Room Thriller: Our Review of ‘The Path To Totality’

If you’ve ever played an escape room, The Path To Totality will seem familiar. After all, an escape room is an immersive experience where someone locks you in a room and forces you to solve puzzles and unravel clues in an attempt to escape before the time runs out. Director Sean Cisterna’s film has all […]

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Visions du reel: Our Review of ‘Looking for Horses’ on OVID

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ March 19, 2024
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Visions du reel: Our Review of ‘Looking for Horses’ on OVID

Many people feel a sense of otherness, a sense of not belonging in the places they’re in. In Looking for Horses, documentary filmmaker Stefan Pavlovic makes his viewers feel his alienation through occasional jump cuts. He sometimes transports us from the landscapes of his home country in Bosnia and Herzegovina to Canada where he lives […]

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