Movies

Our Paul Gratton takes a look at the new horror movie BUDDY that seems to have quite a few wacky twists & turns up its sleeve! Read on for more. There is a strain running through contemporary horror films that seems to take particular pleasure in skewering sacred childhood icons and turning them into murderous […]

What did both Paul & myself think of the latest Ridley Scott opus The Dog Stars? The movie features Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley & Guy Pearce, among others, in a post-apocalyptic survival tale. Read on! Paul’s Reaction: A handsome, smoothly directed feature from the prolific Ridley Scott that suffers from the sheer over-familiarity […]

Our Paul Gratton takes a look at the new film Late Fame which has had a successful festival run and is now in limited run in the US & Canada. About: In the movie Late Fame, an obscure, aging postal worker and former 1970s downtown New York poet named Ed Saxberger is unexpectedly rediscovered by […]

Our Paul Gratton takes a look at the TIFF 2025 entry Julian, now playing in limited release in the US & Canada. About: Fleur and Julian fall madly in love and decide to get married in all countries where they, as two women, are allowed to do so. After only four marriages, their journey comes […]

Our Paul Gratton takes a look at the new limited release The Floaters, now in theatres in the US & Canada. About: In The Floaters, a freshly ousted rock musician named Nomi (Jackie Tohn) takes a last-resort job from her best friend and camp director Mara (Sarah Podemski) at their childhood Jewish summer camp. Tasked […]

Summer isn’t over yet! We both take a look at The End of Oak Street which is now playing in cinemas everywhere! About: After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as […]

You have to hand it to Matt Johnson – he works fast. Already still reeling from the success of Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, he already has his new movie Tony already in release. Read below for Paul Gratton’s reaction to TONY (I will have my reaction here next week when the movie […]

Both Paul & myself take a look at the quietly released The Wrong Girls featuring a lot of stoner madness. Does it live up to the “buzz”? Sorry, bad joke. Read on! About: Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat lead stoner comedy ‘The Wrong Girls,’ which finds two codependent friends living paycheck to paycheck (and bong […]

It is always a challenge when I just can’t fit a good looking film festival doc into my schedule, and Cookie Queens was an audience favourite at this year’s South By Southwest Film & TV Festival and of course hit my radar AFTER the movie screened and could not watch it in Austin. Months later […]

Our Paul Gratton takes a look at the Broken Lizard team gearing up again for another round of silliness in Super Troopers 3. Yours truly also has a brief reaction as well below. About: When Farva’s over-the-top Indian engagement to Thorny’s sister spirals into chaos, the Super Troopers must navigate Thorny’s schemes to break up […]

Our own Paul Gratton takes a look at Eli Roth’s latest opus Ice Cream Man. The key synopsis here is “An idyllic summer town descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.” And for whatever reason, I’m getting flashbacks to Eddie Murphy’s bit about that the ice cream […]

If you like meet-cute romantic comedies (a style of movies that I don’t feel come along in mainstream cinema a lot these days), check out our reaction to One Night Only, now playing in cinemas. About: Academy Award® nominee Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown, Top Gun: Maverick) and BAFTA nominee Callum Turner (Masters of the […]

Our amazing writer Paul Gratton takes a look at Sheep In The Box, the latest movie from legendary filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. About: Set in the near future, Otone Komoto works as an architect. She is married to Kensuke Komoto, who runs a construction company. The married couple decide to welcome a humanoid robot into their […]

It isn’t every day we get to comment on a Gregg Araki movie! I remember seeing his last title White Bird In A Blizzard on a rainy afternoon screening at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival. Both Paul Gratton and myself take a look at his latest film, I Want Your Sex. ABOUT: I Want […]

It’s a BIG new movie day in North America with the highly anticipated Spider-Man: Brand New Day release! Sure to be one of the biggest hits of the year. Both Paul & I got to see screenings in our respective Toronto & Victoria cinemas, and if you want to know how these two old men […]