Home: Our Review of ‘Housekeeping for Beginners’

Theatrical ‐ April 12, 2024

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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Jem Cohen: Our Review of ‘Museum Hours’ on OVID

Jem Cohen: Our Review of ‘Museum Hours’ on OVID

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 a Perennially Important Subject: Our Review of ‘We Were The Lucky Ones’

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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Sickening?: Our Review of ‘Sugar Highs Season 2′ on OutTV

Sickening?: Our Review of ‘Sugar Highs Season 2′ on OutTV

There are too many series out there depicting the lives of 2SLGBTQIA+ people for me to keep track. On the one hand, many of these series aren’t good so it may not feel like a duty to keep track of them. On the other hand, I, like most queer people, are masochists who will watch […]

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HEY TORONTO!!! WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF ‘ABIGAIL’!!!

Kids are the worst… After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, […]

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‘A Bit of Light’: One on One with Stephen Moyer

‘A Bit of Light’: One on One with Stephen Moyer

Stephen Moyer gets behind the camera to showcase his wife Anna Paquin in the moving new drama A Bit of Light. A Bit of Light, directed by Stephen Moyer (True Blood) from a screenplay by Rebecca Callard. Callard adapts her Bruntwood Prize-nominated play of the same name. The film stars Academy® Award winner Anna Paquin […]

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Ridiculous Fun?: Our Review of ‘Dogman’

Movies ‐ April 05, 2024
Ridiculous Fun?: Our Review of ‘Dogman’

Throughout his career Luc Besson has been known for two things in his films, style and action. From Taken and The Fifth Element, to Léon: The Professional and Le Femme Nikita, Besson’s films are nothing, if not entertaining. There is another term however that one can use to describe many of his less-successful films, and […]

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A Devilish Touch: Our Review of ‘Wicked Little Letters’

Theatrical ‐ April 05, 2024
A Devilish Touch: Our Review of ‘Wicked Little Letters’

I took an unofficial survey of recent British periods, a survey with a small sample, and this sample suggests that most films under that sub genre still take themselves really seriously. Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters is a wild retelling of a real scandal that rocked Britain. It falls within the sizeable minority of lax […]

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Altered Innocence: Our Review of ‘Astrakan’

David Depesseville’s Astrakan‘s message, or its attempt of one, is that children get a lot of blame for things, although at least, the life of the main child here, Samuel (Mirko Giannini), has some arc to it. He’s not always on the receiving end of scolding from a couple (Jehnny Beth, Bastien Bouillon) who adopted […]

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WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF ‘CIVIL WAR’ IN SELECT THEATRES!!!

Democracy is fragile… From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Civil War is the definition of ‘event cinema’ and thanks to our friends at Elevation Pictures we have double […]

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