Even superheroes have to learn life lessons… After the record-breaking global success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-Man: Brand New Day marks an entirely new chapter for Peter Parker and Spider-Man. Four years have passed since the events of No Way Home, and Peter is now an adult living entirely alone, having voluntarily erased himself […]
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Every year is a come home year in Snook’s Arm, Newfoundland, home to ice harvester Calvin Penney (Josh Hartnett). The settlement’s bar owner, Linda (Mary Walsh), serves him and his returning children like Jay (Rohan Campbell), whose girlfriend is newcomer Jen (Natasha Henstridge). Calvin’s daughter, Mary (Ruby Stokes), returns from Montreal, her boyfriend with her. […]
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Joshua Close does a very commendable job as the lead actor in A Breed Apart playing Sydney Tompkins, a herder who comes to the Province of Canada during the 1850s. He and his son Emmett (Isaac Highams) till their land and tend to their cows. Sydney and Emmett’s cows are different from the American ones. […]
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Ready, Set…FIGHT! Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them […]
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Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Avril Chown, Jayne Eastwood and many young people who lived in Ontario had acting dreams. Composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz announced a casting call for a Toronto cast of his musical Godspell. Those three actors and seven more beat thousands to be in a big production that ran for 488 performances. […]
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Previously on Wonka’s The Golden Ticket… so I guess Netflix has the rights to the Chocolate Factory now? Netflix gave out golden tickets for twelve people to enter the factory with someone that is close to them. The estate of Gene Wilder allowed for AI to replicate his voice, taking that job from some actor. […]
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The San Sebastian Film Festival have their share of hits and misses, Border belonging to the latter, sadly. Intimate yet uncomfortable, it has its share of gross bathroom scenes like showing Su Qing (Feng Qi) there. She cleans herself before going out to the streets and meeting clients like coal miner Luo Jia (Zheyan Li). […]
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For better or for worse, Mikel Gurrea‘s Sants doesn’t care to introduce his film’s characters, but still, viewers get a jist of who they are, like protagonist Lali (Victoria Luengo). She cares for her dying mother, Gloria (Ariadna Gil), and she eventually gets help with that job. Help comes from her friend Rosario (Eulalia Ramón). […]
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Indonesian genre directing master Joko Anwar returns to Fantastic Fest with a horror comedy that takes some big swings, Ghost in the Cell. After reporter Dimas (Endy Arifan) comes back from an assignment where a number of suspicious murders have taken place, his boss dies under gruesome circumstances and he is jailed in the process. […]
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Chilean documentary filmmaker follows up The First Year with The Battle of Chile, all films bleeding into each other. He divides the latter film into three parts, the first showing enthusiasm turning into the real work of maintaining victories. He shows citizens putting up posters warning people of fascism, mourning people like Jose Ahumada Vasquez. […]
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