Deaf Crocodile: Our Review of ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’ on OVID

OVID.tv ‐ ‐ March 26, 2025
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Deaf Crocodile: Our Review of ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’ on OVID

The thing about magical stories is that they can be all over the place sometimes, but Ruslan and Ludmila has restraint. Restraint is an interesting, even a contradictory word to describe a fantasy film that clocks in at two and a half hours. A film that has its digressions, a subplot about Naina the Witch. […]

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Canadian Film Fest 2025: Our Review of ‘His Father’s Son’

Festival Coverage, Movies ‐ ‐ March 25, 2025
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Canadian Film Fest 2025: Our Review of ‘His Father’s Son’

Amir (Alireza Shojaei) is in bed, trying to convince his white Canadian girlfriend Dina (Romina D’Ugo) to stay. She doesn’t but it is weird that she has white collar clothes on after staying with a guy. Come of think of it, His Father’s Son has enough weird things in it that Amir starts to notice. […]

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No Dessa: Our Review of ‘O’Dessa’

Disney +, What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ March 21, 2025
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No Dessa: Our Review of ‘O’Dessa’

Now available on Disney +, O’Dessa is the newest musical from the mind of Patti Cake$ writer/director Geremy Jasper. The anticipated musical that also recently played at the SXSW Film Festival stars Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink as O’Dessa. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, O’Dessa is heavy on set design, but is it light everywhere else? […]

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Deaf Crocodile: Our Review of ‘Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet’ on OVID

OVID.tv, VOD/iTunes/DigitalDownload ‐ ‐ March 18, 2025
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Deaf Crocodile: Our Review of ‘Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet’ on OVID

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet, a 1978 film from Oldřich Lipský, gives its viewers a transatlantic hall of mirrors effect. Through this film, we see how the Czechoslovakians see Americans seeing Czechoslovakians see Americans, etc. The Czech nobility, including Baron Rupert von Kratzmar (Miloš Kopecký), discuss Prague’s new, dashing visitor, Nick Carter (Michal Dočolomanský). […]

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‘Dope Thief’ – The Creator And Stars Give Us The Lowdown On This New Explosive Series

Apple TV +, Interviews ‐ ‐ March 14, 2025
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‘Dope Thief’ – The Creator And Stars Give Us The Lowdown On This New Explosive Series

Settle in for one of them most explosive series you’ll see this year from Apple TV+. Dope Thief is a new, eight-episode crime drama created and executive produced by Academy Award nominee Peter Craig, executive produced by Academy Award nominee Ridley Scott, who also directs the first episode, and stars Oscar nominee Brian Tyree Henry. […]

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Thinking and Feeling: Our Review of ‘The Nature of Love’ on OVID

OVID.tv ‐ ‐ March 14, 2025
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Thinking and Feeling: Our Review of ‘The Nature of Love’ on OVID

Sophia (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau) and Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) are the main characters in The Nature of Love. But as I’ve written before and I will write this again – supporting characters can sometimes enhance a lot of films. If anything, they can serve as catalysts for what the main characters end up doing, like Sylvie (Marie-Ginette […]

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Oceans le Carré: Our Review of ‘Black Bag’

Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ March 13, 2025
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Oceans le Carré: Our Review of ‘Black Bag’

Sometimes there’s no doubt that less is actually more… In the newest effort from director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp is the effortless sexy spy thriller Black Bag that reminds audiences you can actually generate suspense and tension by simply using words rather than all those other ones in the cinematic playbook. Black Bag […]

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Past Sins: Our Review of ‘Can I Get A Witness?’

Theatrical ‐ ‐ March 13, 2025
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Past Sins: Our Review of ‘Can I Get A Witness?’

The first act of Anne Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness doesn’t explain a lot about two of its three main characters. Kiah (Keira Jang) and Dianel (Joel Ouelette) go to people’s houses like door knock sales people or people doing surveys. In one of the homes, Kiah plays the piano for her host. […]

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Love Is A Battlefield: Our Review of ‘Novocaine’

Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ March 12, 2025
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Love Is A Battlefield: Our Review of ‘Novocaine’

Sometimes you just know the people that you have to fight for…. In theatres tomorrow, Novocaine has an unexpected charm to it all that you can’t help but get caught up in even though you know that you aren’t expending a single molecule of grey matter on this movie which is also endearingly pretty dumb. […]

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Everybody Gets A Mulligan: Our Review of ‘The Electric State’

Movies, Netflix, What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ March 12, 2025
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Everybody Gets A Mulligan: Our Review of ‘The Electric State’

The art of cinema is meant to evoke emotions from all across the spectrum, but we have to admit that we never actually saw this coming…. The Electric State which is coming to Netflix this Friday is one of the most lazy, emotionally moribund pieces of entertainment to ever be put on a screen.  And […]

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