The few people reading me are probably wondering right now why I’m watching Rhythm + Flow because yes, an odd choice. The first season really exists for the judges, especially Cardi B, forever the most interesting woman on perhaps any planet. She’d do like a Lucille Ball impersonation anytime she and fellow judges make decisions. […]
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Two of the Phillipines’ biggest and brightest stars have reunited for the much anticipated sequel Hello, Love, Again. Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards are making headlines around the world about their big screen comeback in the romantic movie, Hello, Love, Again. Directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana, the film continues the love story of Joy and Ethan. […]
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In 2019 Filipino cinema would release a film that quickly became the highest grossing Filipino movie of all time. Hello, Love, Goodbye, told the love story of a bartender and a domestic helper in Hong Kong, that ended when she caught a plane to Canada to chase her dreams. It starred Kathryn Bernardo and Alden […]
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Memoir of a Snail has Sarah Snook lending her voice to flesh out the film’s protagonist, Grace Puddle. Through Grace, the viewers can see the other characters with whom she builds relationships of varying length. Some relationships are ephemeral, surprising, like a chance encounter with James (Eric Bana), a magistrate disgraced for sexually inappropriate behaviour. […]
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To say that The Crimson Kimono was way of ahead of its time is an understatement. A pulp film noir that depicts a Japanese man and an American woman falling in love was beyond shocking in 1959. A time when nearly two dozen states in the U.S. still enforced antimiscegenation laws, stating that Asians, among […]
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Volunteers and soldiers run separate search teams after four Indigenous Colombian children go missing after an almost fatal plane crash. One of these searchers, Henry Guerrero, has many reasons for joining the search team, including finding his Huitoto clan’s chief. He also joins the team because he was trying to get away from his wife. […]
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The Garvey sisters are back on the scene and if you think that they’re in a good place after the conclusion of Season One of the Apple TV+ hit series Bad Sisters, wait until you check out Season 2! Bad Sisters returns for its highly anticipated eight-episode second season. The show comes to us from […]
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Phil Comeau’s Zachary Richard, Cajun Heart reminds me of a post in the social platform we now know as X. There, a frequent visitor once said, and I paraphrase ‘Canada – great people, terrible history,’ and there’s a truth there. This film has elements of mid-length historical documentaries – cinema verite, interviews, and maps. But […]
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Karolyne Natasha‘s Broken Waters‘ cinematography is reminiscent of past Cancon which is appropriate as it depicts, well, decades past. Specifically, it depicts 1981, a time when things weren’t too bad for women, earning the right for paid leave. The film’s intertitles, though, say that Canada had a long way to go for women’s abortion rights. […]
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A daughter and a mother go for a hike, while another mother asks for a child, consequences be damned. The fourth block of 2024’s Shorts Not Pants festival was about family and I’m seeing a similar theme here. So fine, I’ll pick another arbitrary theme and say that this is about adventures that different people […]
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