Tick Tock: Our Review of ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’

Theatrical ‐ ‐ May 17, 2024
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Tick Tock: Our Review of ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’

Madeleine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez star as an adventurous yet doomed couple in Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 1. Playing Maya and Ryan respectively, their friend group is in Greece, but they decide to go on a road trip through America. Their latest stop in their three day trip is Venus, Oregon, where their car […]

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How Have I Never Heard Of Lee-Chang Dong?

Retrospective ‐ ‐ May 16, 2024
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How Have I Never Heard Of Lee-Chang Dong?

When Dave asked me to write about the first three feature films directed and written by Lee-Chang Dong (playing soon at the TIFF Bell Lightbox), my initial reaction was, who? I consider myself a film buff, but I must admit I mostly know about cinema from North America and Europe. Before watching Lee-Chang Dong’s films, […]

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Bullfrog Films: Our Review of ‘Town Destroyer’ on OVID

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ May 15, 2024
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Bullfrog Films: Our Review of ‘Town Destroyer’ on OVID

The latest wave of controversy hits a San Francisco school in Town Destroyer, bringing up everyone and their opinions. The directors and producers, Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow, make one of their first interviews be the teenagers who go to said school. One of the teenagers starts out by saying that he has no opinions […]

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I Want To Be Alone?: Our Review of ‘Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry’ on MUBI

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ May 14, 2024
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I Want To Be Alone?: Our Review of ‘Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry’ on MUBI

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry is a great showcase for Eka Chavleishvili, moving from supporting roles into taking a leading role. Here, she plays Etero, someone in her forties showing her vulnerability as the village old maid with a secret. She takes a shower after perhaps the wildest day in her life – after brushing with death, […]

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Walk The Line: Our Review of ‘We Grown Now’

Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ May 10, 2024
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Walk The Line: Our Review of ‘We Grown Now’

There are things about Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric’s (Gian Knight Ramirez) childhood that are normal and things that aren’t. Even if they are growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green project, they’re still 90s latchkey kids. They walk around their neighbourhood and do things like tell each other jokes and debate each other. They aren’t […]

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Reverse Engineering: Our Review of ‘The Burning Season’

Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ May 10, 2024
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Reverse Engineering: Our Review of ‘The Burning Season’

Sometimes love ISN’T enough… While affected with a slight bit of melodramatic bloat, The Burning Season is still an incredibly effective tale of how the cycles of self-destruction in our lives have a bad habit of following us down the rabbit holes of our lives even when we have the best intentions. Alena (Sara Canning) […]

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Smart Spectacle: Our Review of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’

Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ May 09, 2024
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Smart Spectacle: Our Review of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’

It’s actually really nice to see fresh life breathed into an established intellectual property WITHOUT a full tear down… While Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes isn’t necessarily designed to be game changer, it’s a very well made tent pole genre picture that invites new fans to the fray without insulting the older generations […]

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An Adam Sandler Film Without Adam Sandler: Our Review of ‘Mother of the Bride’ on Netflix

Movies, Netflix, What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ May 09, 2024
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An Adam Sandler Film Without Adam Sandler: Our Review of ‘Mother of the Bride’ on Netflix

Mark Waters’ Mother of the Bride is just one of the movies that’s turning Netflix into the Hallmark Network. There are a few things about it though that point to Waters’ perspective as a person who makes films. But as I do, let’s talk plot first, one that centres on the titular character, Dr. Lana […]

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Not The Show We Need: Our Review of ‘Under The Bridge’

Disney +, What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ May 07, 2024
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Not The Show We Need: Our Review of ‘Under The Bridge’

It’s November of 1997 on Vancouver Island. If you’re a Canadian of a certain age, you’ll remember that’s around the time Reena Virk disappearance became national news. A voice-over from author Rebecca Godfrey (Riley Keough) introduces us to the story of Reena Virk’s murder with these words: “On its face, this story is the opposite […]

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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Secret Mall Apartment’

Festival Coverage, Film Festivals, Movies ‐ ‐ May 05, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘Secret Mall Apartment’

The story of a group of people creating an apartment in an empty space of a large mall in Providence, Rhode Island seems like a premise from a sitcom perhaps.  In fact watching them move a couch awkwardly up a steep staircase is somewhat reminiscent of that famed Friends episode (pivot!).  And yet a group […]

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