It feels good to be back at the world’s coolest film festival. 2023 has been a real return to form for this long time film-festival lover. Attending both SxSW and TIFF this year has fully restored the faith that movies are still amazing not only on the big screen but in a like-minded culture of […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE from Mongrel Media
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway and we have a doc up for grabs! Enter below to win a Digital Copy of JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE from our partners at Mongrel Media. ABOUT: Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a […]
THE HOLDOVERS Review – The Holiday Movie You Didn’t Know You Needed
Upon first glance, this period piece, directed by Alexander Payne and set in a New England prep school over the 1970/71 Christmas break gives off a whiff of the boarding school classic DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989). Yet it quickly morphs into a very different film which goes in totally unexpected directions. The boarding school here […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of HANDS THAT BIND from Mongrel Media
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of HANDS THAT BIND from our always supportive partners at Mongrel Media! ABOUT: A farm hand struggles to establish roots for his family in a world that is increasingly unfamiliar and, as a darkness settles over the land and mysterious occurrences […]
NOT LET (A)STRAY WITH THIS CANINE COMEDY ON HOME VIDEO
When Reggie (Will Ferrell) is led astray in the adult canine comedy STRAYS, I had to wonder when this Border Terrier will see the light? His master, Doug (Will Forte), is a ne’er-do-well, and he only adopted the dog because his girlfriend at the time adored him. But now that they split up, he should […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of TRIPPED UP from Mongrel Media
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of the new movie TRIPPED UP from our partners at Mongrel Media! ABOUT: Aspiring chef Lizzy sets off with her friends to compete in a prestigious food festival. What begins as a calculated career move quickly turns into a heartwarming misadventure. […]
Fantastic Fest Reaction – COBWEB
Kim Jee-woon is the mastermind behind this dark, dark comedy about the making of a film in 1970s South Korea. “Described as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative,” on IMDB, that only begins to explain the contours of this fabulous period piece. Here, Director Kim […]
TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR Review – 100% Pure Adrenaline
When I think of the name Taylor Swift I think of an incredibly famous, powerful and beautiful woman who has really transcended the world stage in entertainment and seems to have mostly done it all by herself. I have always been a casual fan of her work and on occasion had some of her songs […]
Contest: Win an Apple TV Digital Copy of BOUDICA: QUEEN OF WAR from Mongrel Media
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of BOUDICA: QUEEN OF WAR from our always supportive partners at Mongrel Media. ABOUT: After her family is slain and her land stolen, warrior queen Boudica (Olga Kurylenko) leads a fierce rebellion against the Roman Empire, inspiring her people to fight […]
TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS on 4k Blu Ray Review – ‘Til All Are One
While I tire of a lot of the mass produced studio product this year, TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS is a rare exception. A pure, fun summer popcorn movie that wears its heart on its sleeve, it was a fun action movie that did decently on its theatrical release but I really wish did better. […]
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Review – Scorsese Can Do Whatever He Wants
A huge wave of euphoria hit me about halfway through Martin Scorsese’s latest picture (he gets to call his movies “pictures”, therefore so do I) in that this is a filmmaker still at the top of his game after decades and still creates his movies on his own terms. Seeing something like KILLERS OF THE […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of THE MIRACLE CLUB from LevelFilm
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of THE MIRACLE CLUB from our partners at LevelFilm! ABOUT: There’s just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. With a little benevolent interference from their local […]
TIFF Reaction – Hey, Viktor!
In recent years, Chris Eyre’s 1998 film Smoke Signals has been the source of a thousand memes shared by Indigenous people. Among the most popular have been images of Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams) calling out “Hey, Victor!” to Victor Joseph (Adam Beach) in a distinctive rez accent. In Hey, Viktor!, actor Cody Lightning, who played the child version […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of STELLAR from LevelFilm
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of festival favourite STELLAR from LevelFilm! Canada represent! ABOUT: As a meteorite catastrophically changes the planet outside, an indigenous man and woman meet in a small bar and initiate a romantic relationship, setting off a cosmic chain of events that may […]
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER on Blu Ray – Aka Dracula On A Boat
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER is a bit of a surprise; just one section of Dracula’s “uprising” based off of a single chapter of the Bram Stoker classic. The very basic but effective premise has the crew of the Demeter ship dealing with Dracula as a stay. The movie has a solid cast but […]