Love & Marriage: Our Review of ‘My Love Affair with Marriage’ on OVID

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ December 20, 2024
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Love & Marriage: Our Review of ‘My Love Affair with Marriage’ on OVID

A child calls our protagonist Zelma (Dagmara Domincyk) a pervert, a hurtful thing to say to another child. But then again, children can be cruel to each other, giving each other complexes that metastasize in time. With My Love Affair with Marriage, animation director Signe Baumane gives her viewers a personal and seemingly autobiographical story. […]

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Support The Girls: Our Review of ‘The Six Triple Eight’ on Netflix

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ December 19, 2024
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Support The Girls: Our Review of ‘The Six Triple Eight’ on Netflix

It feels like centuries pass before Eleanor Roosevelt shows up in Tyler Perry’s film The Six Triple Eight. Playing her is Susan Sarandon, noticing a woman standing outside the White House for days on end. The woman tells the former First Lady in America and FDR (Sam Waterston) that there’s a backlog in the mail. […]

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‘Mon oncle Antoine’: The Coming Of Age Melancholy Christmas Classic!

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ December 16, 2024
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‘Mon oncle Antoine’: The Coming Of Age Melancholy Christmas Classic!

Film historian and filmmaker Daniel Kremer once told me that Mon Oncle Antoine” is “Canada’s Kane” (as in Citizen Kane) and I’d have to agree. It is considered one of the greatest Canadian films of all time. An absolute masterpiece. I first saw the film in 2021 and I initially felt that it was dull. […]

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ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A COPY OF ‘101 FASCINATING CANADIAN FILM AND TV FACTS’!!!!

Giveaways/Contests ‐ ‐ December 13, 2024
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ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A COPY OF ‘101 FASCINATING CANADIAN FILM AND TV FACTS’!!!!

We’ve always gotta up our knowledge… As someone who has been working in the film and television industry in various capacities over the past 30 years, I’ve learned that there’s no such thing as a true “expert” when it comes to film and television and especially when it comes down to our own Canadian content. […]

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Oh So Slow: Our Review of ‘Oh, Canada’

Movies ‐ ‐ December 13, 2024
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Oh So Slow: Our Review of ‘Oh, Canada’

From American Gigolo, Hardcore to Cat People, writer and director Paul Schrader has gained a reputation as spending the extra time needed to make his films a true work of art.  He even recently received an Oscar nomination for his film First Reformed. Unfortunately, however, his latest film doesn’t quite reach his early career highs. […]

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Connect The Dots: Our Review of ‘The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga’

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ December 11, 2024
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Connect The Dots: Our Review of ‘The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga’

It’s been six years since Chapman and Maclain Way’s six-part series Wild Wild Country but they’re back. They’re still working with Netflix, this time bringing their viewers The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga. It all starts with an Elvis impersonator doing work as a janitor in a hospital near the titular Mississippi town. […]

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Belarussian Folk Horror: Our Review of ‘The Savage Hunt of King Stakh’ on OVID.

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ December 10, 2024
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Belarussian Folk Horror: Our Review of ‘The Savage Hunt of King Stakh’ on OVID.

A modern man steps into a palimpsest of centuries in Valeriy Rubinchik’s The Savage Hunt of King Stakh. That man is Andrey Beloretskiy (Boris Plotnikov), an ethnographer visiting the fictional Marsh Firs estate in Belarus. At first, it seems like good timing, walking into the party honoring the estate’s beautiful heiress, Nadezhda Janowska (Elena Dimitrova). […]

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Low Budget, Hot Action: Our Review of ‘Striking Rescue’

Movies ‐ ‐ December 06, 2024
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Low Budget, Hot Action: Our Review of ‘Striking Rescue’

Thai actor Tony Jaa made a name for himself making action movies such as Ong-Bak, but he never really made it big in North America. Sure, he made appearances in films such as Furious 7, The Expendables 4 and Monster Hunter, but all of those movies starred bigger name actors who pushed him to the […]

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Out of the Trailer Park: Our Review of ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties’

Movies ‐ ‐ December 06, 2024
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Out of the Trailer Park: Our Review of ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties’

It’s hard to believe it’s been over 20 years since the Trailer Park Boys premiered, but all it takes is one look at the stars of the show and see how old they’ve gotten to know it’s true. The last couple of seasons of the show weren’t as good as the original run was, so […]

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America Has A Problem: Our Review of ‘La Cocina’

Theatrical ‐ ‐ December 05, 2024
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America Has A Problem: Our Review of ‘La Cocina’

Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina puts its titular setting in the forefront, getting inevitable comparisons to The Bear. And there’s two ways of looking at the events that occur here, one being that this kind of work is a roller coaster. Some good things happening to our protagonist Pedro (Raul Briones) cancel out the bad stuff. […]

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