Cinefranco 2025: Our Review of ‘Dans le Peau de Cyrano’

Festival Coverage, Movies ‐ ‐ November 16, 2025
Comments Closed
Cinefranco 2025: Our Review of ‘Dans le Peau de Cyrano’

Dans le Peau de Cyrano, a film with many titles, centres on a stuttering Italian French teenager, Colin (Joachim Arseguel). He moves with his mother Giulian (Aure Atika) to rural Brest, where she enrolls him in a strict school. Luckily, the school’s new Classical Drama teacher, Mr. Deverseau (José Garcia), who has unconventional teaching techniques. […]

Read More

Cinefranco 2025: Our Review of ‘We Will Find Happiness’

Festival Coverage ‐ ‐ November 16, 2025
Comments Closed
Cinefranco 2025: Our Review of ‘We Will Find Happiness’

Quebecois cinema contains multitudes, genre wise, with Lea Pool’s We Will Find Happiness representing dramas from that region. One of its central characters is Reza Mohammedi (Aron Archer), who does a lot of running in his turbulent life. He leaves Iran, nearly escaping certain death after authorities arrest him after finding him at his former […]

Read More

Mother Wants: Our Review of ‘Meet, Greet & Bye’

Theatrical ‐ ‐ November 14, 2025
Comments Closed
Mother Wants: Our Review of ‘Meet, Greet & Bye’

Meet, Greet & Bye is about Baby Facunda (DRPH 2’s Maricel Soriano), whose cancer relapse affects her three children. Her adult sons have different tactics in trying to get her back to painful chemo. Youngest Leo (Juan Karlos Labajo), funny, musical, and thicc, promises to marry his baby’s mother if she undergoes the cancer treatment. […]

Read More

Six Decades: Our Review of ‘Being Eddie’ on Netflix

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ November 12, 2025
Comments Closed
Six Decades: Our Review of ‘Being Eddie’ on Netflix

Being Eddie has a lot of jump scares which I may or may not write about, but for now, let’s humour Angus Wall’s version of Eddie Murphy, movie star of the 80s. The documentary shows his name lighting up trade papers as well as critics discussing his career’s impact. It lets him talk about himself. […]

Read More

Look at the Beds: Our Review of ‘Squid Game The Challenge Season 2 Episodes 5-8’ on Netflix

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ November 11, 2025
Comments Closed
Look at the Beds: Our Review of ‘Squid Game The Challenge Season 2 Episodes 5-8’ on Netflix

One of the contestants in this season of Squid Game The Challenge, 370 (Curt), has some simple words. “We got to get moving,” he tells his daughter 369 (Zoe), but let’s back up a bi, shall we? After playing minor games and then Pentathlon and Catch, the third game is Mingle, which eventually exhausts them. […]

Read More

He-Men?: Our Review of ‘Marines’ (2025) on Netflix

Netflix ‐ ‐ November 10, 2025
Comments Closed
He-Men?: Our Review of ‘Marines’ (2025) on Netflix

A female marine fixes the nose of one of her male counterparts during one of their training exercises. Also, fun fact, this particular training session that Marines are doing is happening in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But thankfully, I suppose, the titular servicemen aren’t just doing training exercises while waiting to fight wars. […]

Read More

Shades of Grey: Our Review of ‘Nuremberg’

Festival Coverage, Movies, TIFF 2025 ‐ ‐ November 08, 2025
Comments Closed
Shades of Grey: Our Review of ‘Nuremberg’

When we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it… In theatres now, Nuremberg not only shines a light on the complications in seeking justice post WWII but also on the more authoritarian ideals that are taking hold in modern government today. In the wake of the Second World War, The Allies, led […]

Read More

Food on Film: Our Review of ‘Winter in Sokcho’

Mubi, What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ November 07, 2025
Comments Closed
Food on Film: Our Review of ‘Winter in Sokcho’

Koya Kamura’s Winter in Sokcho has viewers seeing Sooha (Bella Kim), who works at a seaside hotel that Mr. Park (Ryu Tae-ho) owns. During the titular season, her hotel has a guest, Yan Kerrand (Roschdy Zem), a French artist. Yan is particular, needing particular materials to create what one assumes is his next graphic novel. […]

Read More

The DVD Special Features Live: Our Review of ‘Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films’

Disney +, What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ November 07, 2025
Comments Closed
The DVD Special Features Live: Our Review of ‘Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films’

Debuting on Disney+ a few weeks before the reissue of Avatar: The Way of Water gets re-released in theaters, and a month and a half before the third film, Avatar: Fire and Ash, debuts, Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films lands on the streamer this weekend. The two part special feature, both well below […]

Read More

Window to Gaza: Our Review of ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’

Theatrical ‐ ‐ November 07, 2025
Comments Closed
Window to Gaza: Our Review of ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’

Fatem Hassona is tired, an understandable state of being as a Palestinian undergoing occupation from Americans. She tries to smile through it all and mostly succeeds, or maybe it’s me remembering her first smile. She gave the world that first smile around April 2024, her first video conversation with documentary filmmaker and producer Sepideh Farsi. […]

Read More
Next Page »
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-61364310-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview');