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A Means to an End: Review of ‘Praying for Armageddon’
Movies, television, books, and pretty well all aspects of art have depicted the end of the world at some point. Often it is coupled with an underlying warning on how to avoid environmental catastrophe...
View ArticleDeliciously Empty Calories: Our Review of ‘Palm Royale’
Imagine Desperate Housewives set in 1969 Palm Beach, and that’s exactly what Palm Royale delivers. The new Apple miniseries stars Kristin Wiig as Maxine, a former pageant queen who married the heir to...
View ArticleHEY TORONTO!!! WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF ‘MONKEY MAN’!!!
The game is about to change… Oscar® nominee Dev Patel (Lion, Slumdog Millionaire) achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for...
View ArticleVisions du reel: Our Review of ‘Looking for Horses’ on OVID
Many people feel a sense of otherness, a sense of not belonging in the places they’re in. In Looking for Horses, documentary filmmaker Stefan Pavlovic makes his viewers feel his alienation through...
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An Escape Room Thriller: Our Review of ‘The Path To Totality’
If you’ve ever played an escape room, The Path To Totality will seem familiar. After all, an escape room is an immersive experience where someone locks you in a room and forces you to solve puzzles and...
View ArticleA Dysfunctional Comedy: Our Review of ‘Hailey Rose’
Let’s face it, dysfunctional family comedies are popular simply because we can usually see a little bit of our own lives in them. Unfortunately some of them stretch their characters to far extremes,...
View ArticleCFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Place of Bones’
Pandora (Heather Graham) and her daughter Hester (Brielle Robillard) live an isolated existence in the Wild West of 1876. Separated from the closest town by 90 miles, theirs is a solitary life after...
View ArticleLaserblast from the Past: Our Review of ‘X-Men ’97’
Debuting this Wednesday on Disney + is the long-awaited revival of one of the most beloved cartoon series of all time, X-Men ’97. A direct sequel to X-Men: The Animated Series, which originally lasted...
View ArticleI’m Out: Our Review of ‘Femme’
Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s Femme shows its viewers that people who go to bathhouses will run into familiar faces. This is the case for Jules/Aphrodite Banks (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett). The London...
View ArticleCFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Valley of Exile’
Nour, a Syrian refugee, asks her tentmate and Palestinian-Syrian refugee, Shirin, what they do for their laundry during winter. I find that piece of conversation among many in Valley of Exile...
View ArticleCFF 2024: Our Review of ‘Wild Goat Surf’
Set during the summer of 2003, we catch up with 13-year-old Rell Anderson (Shaleyin Martin). Everyone around her Penticton home affectionately knows her as Goat. She along with, her mother Jane...
View ArticleBinaries: Our Review of ‘Mami Wata’ on MUBI
C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s Mami Wata graced the screens of festivals like Sundance and Fantasia and is coming to MUBI. The title refers to a folk goddess that still has worshippers in communities in African...
View ArticleProtection: Our Review of ‘Shayda’
For Shayda, director Noora Niasari takes inspiration from her childhood as an Australian-Iranian during the mid 1990s. She also imagines what her mother went through as the titular character (Zar Amir...
View ArticleBreathtaking Fantasy: Our Review of ‘Daughter Of The Sun’ at CFF 2024
Some of the best movies defy being pigeonholed. Those types of movies attracted wider audiences because they provide a little something for everyone. Writer, Director and lead actor Ryan Ward’s latest...
View ArticlePast and Present: Our Review of ‘The Queen of My Dreams’
Fawzia Mirza’s new film The Queen of My Dreams has three settings. The first is in 1999 in Toronto, where Azra Baji (Amrit Kaur), a Pakistani-Canadian and a student actress. She lives freely with her...
View ArticleWe’re Just Like You: Our Review of ‘Coming to You’
Hankyeol (They/Them) lies down on a bed after having top surgery, while their mother, Nabi (She/Her), is sitting by their side. Meanwhile, Vivian (She/Her) attends a PFLAG meeting as she talks about...
View ArticleCFF 2024: Our Review of ‘WaaPaKe’
This piece on this documentary is coming out the morning of its release for this year’s Canadian Film Festival. It’s almost a week away from when I watched it during a weekend when all I watched was...
View ArticleCFF 2024: Our Review of ‘The Burning Season’
If you’ve ever wanted to know what would happen if a charming Carley Fortune novel about young love were crossed with a twisted psychosexual drama, The Burning Season is the film for you! Told...
View ArticleI’m Out: Our Review of ‘Femme’
Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s Femme shows its viewers that people who go to bathhouses will run into familiar faces. This is the case for Jules/Aphrodite Banks (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett). The London...
View ArticleAltered 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...
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