As part of the Wavelengths section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the doc BLKNEWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS is one of the should-be-talked-about-more part of the festival. ABOUT: Celebrated artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph revisits and expands upon his eponymous two-channel “fugitive newscast” installation that was showcased at the 2019 Venice Biennale among other […]
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Toronto International Film Festival 2025 – It’s Time To Celebrate “TIFFTY”!
The 2025 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is turning 50 this year, and as per usual I wish time travel existed so I could go back and experience many years of this event that seems to completely take over the psyche of its enormous city. I have heard so many stories about not […]
BALLERINA Review – Wick That Flamethrower
BALLERINA is somewhere in the middle of JOHN WICK Parts 3 & 4 which itself is an odd way to shoehorn a side-movie in and I went in with major trepidation (especially knowing how the terrific JOHN WICK 4 ended), and yet deep down this new action picture is a flat out B-movie that works […]
THE ACCOUNTANT 2 Reaction – Brax & Taxes
The new sequel THE ACCOUNTANT 2 was released this weekend to strong box office numbers and audience reaction. The movie premiered at March’s South By Southwest Film Festival where we saw it, though this writer did not see it under the best of circumstances! About: Christian Wolff (Affleck) is an accountant but can always fight […]
SxSW 2025 – What To Expect In A Changing Cinematic World
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
TWISTERS Review – An Intense Depiction of Very Bad Weather
A wave of happiness flooded over me with the new TWISTERS movie, a rather unique continuation of smart people going right into the path of tornados. Jan De Bont’s flawed but deliriously entertaining 1996 picture TWISTER was a huge hit in its theatrical release in 1996, and I remember seeing it in cinemas on opening […]
FLY ME TO THE MOON Review – If Only Kubrick Could Have Seen This
I have always been fascinated by the era of the Space Race and everything around it. From THE RIGHT STUFF which told the story about breaking the sound barrier leading to the first round of Americans trying to fly around the planet to APOLLO 13 which is one of the best movies ever made about […]