With all of the world affairs going on right now, part of me just wants an escape….to a major international festival where everyone is looking for that next big thing. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. South By Southwest is upon us once again this year, and I am travelling all the way […]
Author: Jason Whyte
Victoria Film Festival Reaction – NIGHT OF THE ZOOPOCALYPSE – Go Canadian Animation!
I am doing a few quick writeups of titles that are playing in my local Victoria Film Festival and the 2025 edition has bean absolutely wonderful and even quite a bit of a surprise for this film fan! While I tend to attend more major film festivals like TIFF and SxSW, VFF snuck up on […]
I’M STILL HERE Reaction – Eunice Paiva’s Unforgettable Journey
I feel like my movie coverage as of late has been for movies championing work that SHOULD win the Oscar this year. From the wonder of FLOW possibly winning the Best Animated Feature Oscar and the documentary SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (a review of this is coming shortly to the site) hoping to take […]
Contest: Win an Apple TV Digital Copy of FLOW from FilmsWeLike!
We have a HUGE Get Reel Giveaway starting today for the extraordinary animated feature FLOW, courtesy of our friends at FilmsWeLike! Enter below and please share this contest with your Canadian friends! This movie has been celebrated around the world since its release last summer and our GRM team saw and fell in love with […]
DOG MAN Review – Animal Behavioural Delights
For the last few months all I have been talking about is FLOW, the little cat movie from Latvia that could. While I will still promote that movie to anyone who will listen, the big reason is that the animated feature is one of the most powerful art forms we have in cinema right now […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of ABERDEEN from Mongrel Media
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of ABERDEEN from our partners at Mongrel Media! ABERDEEN played at last fall’s Toronto International Film Festival and also played at last December’s Whistler Film Festival, and also upcoming to the Victoria Film Festival in February! ABOUT: ABERDEEN is a raw, […]
ONE OF THEM DAYS Reaction – Let’s Go Back
I feel like movies like ONE OF THEM DAYS were made far more in the 1990s and 2000s, when it was a more simple time for comedies aimed at adults and would play in more screens in cinemas. It feels almost refreshing in a way to see a movie like this in which two best […]
BETTER MAN Review – Second Chances
If you have been following the movie BETTER MAN, chances are you know by now that the movie is a music biography on the life of Robbie Williams where his entire performance is a computer generated monkey. Or chimpanzee. Or ape. Or whatever you want to call it. This factoid did tend to slip past […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of STORY AND PICTURES BY from FilmsWeLike
It’s a new Get Reel Giveaway and this time with our returning partners at FilmsWeLike! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of STORY & PICTURES BY! STORIES & PICTURES BY recently screened at the Whistler Film Festival and is a completely overlooked gem that is a complete love letter to children’s picture […]
The Best Movies of 2024 – Go With The FLOW
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 […]
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 […]