2024 has been a real great year, in my eyes, for movies being made in a more classical style along with evolution in animated movies by independent filmmakers along with a better focus on indie filmmaking at film festivals. Along with finding me in downtown cinemas in my home city seeing all the new releases […]
Author: Jason Whyte
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of WICKED from Universal Home Entertainment!
We are sending out 2024 with a bang! Enter below to win a Digital Copy of the recent hit WICKED from our friends at Universal Home Entertainment and Taro PR! ABOUT: Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as […]
CHASING CHASING AMY Reaction – Go Kevin Or Go Home
As a long time fan of filmmaker Kevin Smith, I was eager to see yet another documentary about his work and this time about my personal favourite of his, CHASING AMY, which was somewhat of a reaction to the failure of his sophomore feature MALLRATS and a bounce-back to his indie rooms at that time. […]
GOODRICH Reaction – Come On, Get Happy
A movie like GOODRICH is what I like to call a “nice” movie. There is very little in the way of characters having TOO much hardship with so much positivity around them, but sometimes we need a movie like this to come along to make us feel a little bit better. The real star here is […]
Contest: Win an Apple TV Digital Copy of THE APPRENTICE from Mongrel Media
It’s a new Get Reel Giveaway! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of THE APPRENTICE, courtesy of our friends at Mongrel Media! ABOUT: The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of Kevin Smith’s THE 4:30 MOVIE from Mongrel Media
It’s a new Get Reel Giveaway to start off your October! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of THE 4:30 MOVIE, now available on VOD from Mongrel Media. This is the latest movie from filmmaker Kevin Smith, who filmed the movie at his own cinema in New Jersey! ABOUT: Writer-director Kevin Smith […]
Fantastic Fest 2024 Reaction – THE LIFE & DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE
Though I was not IN Austin for Fantastic Fest, I was able to sit down and watch the official selection THE LIFE & DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE from the comfort of my own home, so in a way I was attending this year’s Fantastic Fest in spirit. The Fantastic Fest Lowdown: Well educated and raised […]
Fantastic Fest 2024 Reaction – NEVER LET GO
Editor’s Note: It was a busy opening night at Fantastic Fest with many filmmakers, actors and movie buffs all in attendance for the start of eight days of genre mayhem. My gifted writer Anna Hanks was at the premiere of NEVER LET GO, which was also simulatenously released in theatres everywhere at the same time. […]
Fantastic Fest 2024 – Restorations and Terrifiers
Spooky season is nearly here. Halloween decorations are starting to slither up on stores and houses while skeletons of all sizes and sorts are for sale. That means it’s time for Fantastic Fest, the perfect kickoff to the creepiest time of the year! Fantastic Fest is one of the largest genre festivals in the USA, […]
TIFF 2024 Reaction – VIKTOR
The TIFF Lowdown: Fusing rigorous reportage with innovative cinematic subjectivity, this bold documentary from veteran war photographer Olivier Sarbil is a uniquely intimate portrait of a Deaf person’s experience of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Elegantly fusing rigorous reportage with cinematic subjectivity, this bold documentary from filmmaker and veteran war photographer Olivier Sarbil offers a […]
TIFF 2024 Reaction – YOUR TOMORROW
Another part of TIFF Docs, YOUR TOMORROW is one of the very best documentaries I saw at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, and even though it’s about a cultural landmark in Toronto this doc will work for anyone who loves a place that is going to be shut down. Read on for more! […]
TIFF 2024 Reaction – THE SWEDISH TORPEDO
Part of the Centrepiece section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, THE SWEDISH TORPEDO hit my radar pretty quickly as I really like female swimmers going on a massive cross-channel journey for some unknown reason! The TIFF Lowdown: Southern Sweden, summer 1939. World War II is looming. 30-year-old single mother Sally Bauer can’t tear […]
TIFF 2024 Reaction – THE SALT PATH
Featuring two favourites in Gillian Anderson & Jason Isaacs, THE SALT PATH was one of the most anticipated pictures at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. About: After losing their home and livelihood, a middle-aged couple impulsively set out on a 630-mile walk along the southwest English coast, a walk complicated to no small degree […]
TIFF 2024 Reaction – VILLAGE KEEPER
One of my favourite Canadian movies at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, VILLAGE KEEPER is a movie to keep on your radar when it eventually gets a release in our country! The TIFF Lowdown: After a massive loss, an overwhelmed Toronto mother discovers a very unusual way to process her grief. With her first […]
TIFF 2024 Reaction – YOU ARE NOT ALONE
The TIFF Lowdown: In Montreal, twentysomething Léo (Pier-Luc Funk) delivers pizza and gets drunk, and that’s pretty much it. He’s alone and he’s sad, and doing nothing about it … until he meets Rita (Marianne Fortier), a sweet-natured musician who thinks he might be a keeper. The thing is, Léo is already taken; he’s just […]