Same Story, Different Characters : Our Review of The Bearded Girl’

Movies ‐ ‐ May 08, 2026
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Same Story, Different Characters : Our Review of The Bearded Girl’

If you’ve watched enough movies, odds are you’ve seen the same story told in many different ways. In the case of The Bearded Girl, it’s a coming of age story of a girl coming from a controlling family who wants something different for herself. On the surface it’s a story that’s been told time again. […]

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Getting Your Groove Back: Our Review of ‘The Last One For The Road’

Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ May 07, 2026
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Getting Your Groove Back: Our Review of ‘The Last One For The Road’

There’s legitimate sentimentality in the chaos… Opening this Saturday for a limited theatrical run in Toronto and rolling out in Vancouver and other cities in the coming weeks, The Last One For The Road has this unshakeable element of bittersweet contentment to it as it marks the intersection of regret, nostalgia and hope in an […]

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Cold Devastation: Our Review of ‘Omaha’

Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ May 07, 2026
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Cold Devastation: Our Review of ‘Omaha’

Desperation can get dark… Omaha is one of those quietly devastating films that shows how narrows the roads we walk down in life can get sometimes and how it cannot take much to get there…. After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are unexpectedly woken up by their dad and taken on a journey […]

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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘Whispers in May’

Festival Coverage, Movies ‐ ‐ May 03, 2026
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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘Whispers in May’

Whispers in May is about Qihuo and her friends, Atnyop, Itgop, and Itsi, Manchurian girls and teens living in China. Atynop and Qihuo count the money their parents send, needing that money for a skirt for Qihuo’s ceremony. They go to a market and find that skirts are more expensive than the ones in town. […]

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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of the True North Shorts Program

Festival Coverage ‐ ‐ May 03, 2026
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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of the True North Shorts Program

The films within Hot Doc’s True North Shorts Program, which screens May 3rd all focus their attention on those who are up against the odds.  These documentaries tell stories about things like a wildlife centre trying to save Bald Eagles from man made environmental contamination, or an independent journalist trying to tell stories for us. […]

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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘Hex’

Festival Coverage ‐ ‐ May 03, 2026
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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘Hex’

One of the best things about watching films is that sometimes you don’t know what you are getting into. If you go into it knowing very little about it, or as in this case scanning over the description without really reading it, you might just end up being surprised. Hex is one of those documentaries. […]

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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘Elephants & Squirrels’

Festival Coverage, Movies ‐ ‐ May 02, 2026
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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘Elephants & Squirrels’

Sri Lankan Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige speaks inside a museum “red brown, light brown, and dirty chocolate brown”. The artist lists the different ways that European curators catalogued body parts from ‘different’ cultures, including the culture she’s from. This method of classification disregards the cultural mosaic of the countries that Europeans plundered like Sri Lanka. […]

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Creeypasta: Our Review of ‘Hokum’

Festival Coverage, Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ May 02, 2026
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Creeypasta: Our Review of ‘Hokum’

Acclaimed horror novelist Ohm Bahaman (Adam Scott) travels from the United States to the northern Irish countryside to spread his parents’ ashes outside an old hotel. A hotel that may have an evil supernatural presence lurking within its corridors. Initially with its story, Hokum doesn’t really offer anything that hasn’t already been done before. Borrowing […]

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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘Ghost in the Machine’

Festival Coverage ‐ ‐ May 01, 2026
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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘Ghost in the Machine’

These days, AI is everywhere. It’s being used to create images, write our text, do research, make movies and more. It’s so good at what it does, that in some cases it’s hard to determine what’s real anymore. According to Ghost in the Machine, the question we should be asking is should we be afraid? […]

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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘House of Hope’

Festival Coverage, Movies ‐ ‐ May 01, 2026
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Hot Docs 2026: Our Review of ‘House of Hope’

It’s difficult to imagine ‘normal’ Palestinian life, but nonetheless, House of Hope shows that semblance of normalcy through Manar and Milad. As parents, they try to give their children nutritious food. Manar and Milad are teachers, educating the few children within their care, and their approach seems normal, like morning rituals when Milad greets children. […]

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