NO MORE TIME Exclusive Trailer: Are You Paranoid or Is It Real?
While speculative films about outbreaks of illness and plague are not new to cinema, we definitely look at them differently, and have more personal and arguably somewshat accurate stories to tell along these lines, given that we have lived through...
Screen Anarchists On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
While Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein passed me by during its limited theatrical run, it sure arrived on Netflix pretty fast. I checked it out, discussed it with colleagues, and noticed there were many different opinions on it,...
THE BREAKFAST CLUB 4K Review: We Won't Forget About Them
We Gen-Xers, like generations before and and probably the ones after us, will often lament how things were 'better' when we were young. But there is one point on which this is likely true: there was no internet, blogs, or...
KEEPER Review: The Method to Drive A Person Mad
Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland star in Osgood Perkins' second horror feature of 2025.
DIE, MY LOVE Review: Shaking the Bars of the Not-So-Gilded Cage. Then Setting the Cage on Fire.
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and Sissy Spacek star in Lynne Ramsay's explosive vision of a woman oppressed.
HEDDA Review: A Lustful Period Drama of Old Lovers and New Scandals
Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, and Imogen Poots Star in Nia DaCosta's Adaptation of the Norwegian Drama
EYES WITHOUT A FACE Blu-ray Review: When Guilt and Love Make You Do Terrible Things
Sometimes a film is so enshrined in a canon, taken for granted as representative of either a genre (or subgenre), a national cinema, a director or actor's career, that it risks being a film talked about, but perhaps not watched,...
ORWELL: 2+2=5 Review: The Prophecy of an Educated Imagination
In our current world, too many countries are ruled by governments of various authoritarian types, not at least from a military and economic perspective, the most powerful country. Many have been calling writers such as Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and...
SIX DAYS TO DIE Exclusive Clip: You'll Need Wild West Skills for This Apocalypse
A gambler wrongly accused of murder on the run from the law in in the the post apocalypse desert — not a combination of images that one commonly thinks of with Canadian cinema, but it is getting warmer, and we...
BORN IN FLAMES Blu-ray Review: The Revolution Will Be Mobile and Rightfully Angry
While it's easy to call certain older works of literature and film that were set in the future and seemed to predict what is happening now, prescient, it's more likely that either their creatures made a luck guess, or that...
ANOTHER END Review: Loving Is So Short, Forgetting Is So Long
It's become a familiar science fiction/speculative film premise: what if you could bring someone you love back from the dead, in some way? Perhaps resurrecting them as some kind of zombie, visiting them in some virtual world, or putting their...
Toronto 2025 Review: AKI, An Immersive Season in the North
We can get an impression of a place that we move through as a tourist; though of course that is always mediated by the fact that we are a tourist, and actually living in a place, learning and becoming a part...
Toronto 2025 Review: ADULTHOOD, Dark Comedy Tests the Sibling Bond
It's not easy watching one's parents get old, and having to care for them, mostly because we don't like to be reminded of how we're all end up with the problems of aging. The task of looking after aging parents...
Toronto 2025 Review: HONEY BUNCH: Loving the Pieces and the Whole
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli return with a 70s-intimate-sci-fi horror sophomore feature.
Toronto 2025: RETREAT, A Unique Film Shows an Isolated Community Hides Dark Secrets
If a person cannot be understood, if they need something outside of what is common in order to full live and thrive in our society, they are often shunted to the side at best, or at worst, treated as burdens...
Toronto 2025 Review: JUNK WORLD, A Dizzying Tale Told With Incredible Animation
Stalk-like creatures wriggling out of walls. Endless trenches that hide dangers. Half-men, half-robots in fetish wear. Removable eyes. These are just some of the wonders and weirdos that await in Takahide Hori's latest animated film, Junk World. Bizarre, funny, sometimes confusing,...
Toronto 2025 Review: DUST BUNNY, Brightly Coloured Slaughter Entertains
Mads Mikkelsen and Sigourney Weaver Star in Candy-Coated Monster Film
Toronto 2025 Review: FORASTERA, Going Slowly into That Good Night
Grief can manifest in a myriad of ways, and there is not necessarily any perfect or 'sensible' way to process the loss of family, even if they're of an age where it's not a surprise. And it's natural to have...
Toronto 2025 Review: AMOEBA, Coming of Age with Ghosts and Gods
Most cultures, both past and current have some sort of rite of passage, some ritual, for those of the age we call teenagers. Perhaps it's not as formal as it was in years passed, since those teenage times tend to...
Toronto 2025 Review: MĀRAMA, Bloody Gothic Revenge Comes to the Colonizer
The gothic has long been associated with isolated homes or castles, opulent yet neglected, dark family secrets that often mean a ghost or two, usually a woman with some connection to the paranormal, and the return of the repressed. But...
