Sometimes love takes a little more than a leap to make it come to fruition… He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track […]
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A favourite from festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival, Radu Jude’s new film Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World is a masterclass of multitasking. The film incorporates clips from Communist Era Romanian film Angela Moves On. There, that titular taxi driver (Dorina Lazăr) eats on the road and drives […]
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Vampire films come in all forms, from comedies to horror and even romance. The creatures themselves come in all shapes and sizes as well, from little children to the grotesque, barely human monster. The titular character of Abigail is one of the former, and as for the film, there is no doubt it’s a horror, […]
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Food service workers and farmers are essential workers and, in a perfect world, the world will treat them as such. Food, Inc. 2 shows that North American capitalism ‘perfects’ and tweaks a lot of things except for compensating workers properly. People watching this movie aren’t brand new to this information, as it shows a food […]
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Ah, Inside Out, the classic 2015 Pixar movie that took us inside the mind of a tween girl named Riley. And what did we find there? A team of hardworking emotions that guided her through life. Starring Amy Poehler as Joy (as in the emotion, not just the woman’s name) and a bevy of talented […]
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The Ernie Game (1967) is set in Montreal in the middle of the winter. The film follows Ernie Turner (Alexis Kanner), who gets involved with two different women. One is a seamstress who is his ex-girlfriend Gail (Jackie Burroughs). The other is Donna (Judith Gault) who is a single mother and a copywriter. At the […]
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A film with a title like Saturday Night at the Baths will give its audiences certain expectations. Somehow, this film subverts such expectations by depicting a heterosexual sex scene evoking Varda but you know, less good. We can file this film under the ‘product of its time’ microgenre as a queer film with a heterosexual […]
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Gay people make the best lovers and parents, and the former is more complex than regular straight people love. Ali (Samson Selim) has some one on one time with her boyfriend Toni’s (Vladimir Tintor) ‘landlady’ Dita (Anamaria Marinca). She explains that is her client as a social worker but that doesn’t explain the other people […]
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Anne (Canadian singer Mary Margaret O’Hara) is a Montrealer in between jobs when she hears a piece of bad news because it turns out, a cousin of hers falls into a coma in Vienna. There’s little to do in between visits to the hospital so she goes to the Kunsthistorisches Museum. There, she meets a […]
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Well-made art about The Holocaust will always be worthwhile and important. In a historic event where millions died, there are, of course, millions of valuable stories to tell. Based on the 2017 novel by George Hunter (which was in turn inspired by the author’s family’s experiences in World War II), We Were The Lucky Ones, documents […]
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