“HOLLER is a drama about a young woman named Ruth who joins a dangerous scrap metal crew one brutal winter to pay for her education and the chance of a better life. She works the scrap yards during the day and steals valuable metal from closed down factories by night and sells it to overseas […]
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All the latest movie reviews for films released in Canada.
SxSW 2020 Interview – COOPER’S BAR director Nick Morton
“COOPER’S BAR is about a failing Hollywood actor, Cooper Marino (played by Lou Mustillo), who has built an elaborate tiki bar in his backyard where he hides out from Hollywood and harbors a fantasy of giving it all up and becoming a bar man for real. Then one night a TV executive (played by Rhea […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – A PERIOD PIECE director Shuchi Talati
“A woman has her period. She has sex. Corporeal and emotional messiness ensues and a fight erupts mid-coitus.” Director Shuchi Talati on A PERIOD PIECE which screens in the Shorts section of SxSW 2020 Film. Editor’s Note: While SxSW was officially cancelled on March 6th, 2020, the below interview was one of many that already […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – CODA director Oliver Lewin
“CODA is an interactive afterlife played with your eyes. In it, your entire life’s story flashes before your eyes, literally, as each actual blink unfolds the narrative in a tale of repressed memories self acceptance. Filmmaker Oliver Lewin on CODA which is part of the VR experience at SxSW 2020. Editor’s Note: While SxSW was […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – COUP D’ETAT MATH director Sai Selvarajan
“This film will throw you into the deep end of the pool and watch as you try and survive. The film will be a first hand experience as to what it is like to be an immigrant and the trials and tribulations you have to endure just to make it to the U.S. only to […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – UNDER THE INFLUENCE director Nicco Quiñones
“It’s a fact: the smartphone and its social media applications are addictive. As habit-forming effects surface at an alarming rate, we seem to shift our gaze. Bite-sized warning flares lift into the public sphere, but this vital discussion rarely goes beyond clickbait headlines and trendy explorations. UNDER THE INFLUENCE is a documentary series that raises […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – BLOCKS director Bridget Moloney
“BLOCKS is an existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit plastic toy blocks.” Director Bridget Moloney on BLOCKS which screens in the Shorts section of SxSW 2020! Editor’s Note: While SxSW was officially cancelled on March 6th, 2020, the below interview was one of many that already took […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – HEART TO HEART producer Chiara Ventura
“HEART TO HEART is a short comedy pilot about Liddy, played by Fern Deacon, a young girl who is in hospital being treated for heart failure. While there, she develops a crush on her nurse Kim (Siena Kelly), but is scared to make the first move…except her sick heart (voiced by David Tennant!) has something […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – Meet the team from EVERYONE TOGETHER!
“EVERYONE TOGETHER is a comedy series that brings together two dysfunctional families from different cultural backgrounds as they clash and bond over a new major family milestone each season. In the pilot, resentments and old wounds come to the forefront when siblings Lulu and Martin are forced to attend the week-long, campsite wedding of their […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – REMINISCES OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION director Dean Colin Marcial
“It’s THE BREAKFAST CLUB for eco-terrorists, a fire set halfway around the world and twenty years ago raging in the present. A ghost tells you about the last day of his life, planning the revolution with his activist friends before tragically exploding on a mountainside during their botched mission. But it’s also about love and […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – WAFFLE writers Katie Marovitch & Karry Barker
“WAFFLE is an exciting horror-comedy that also holds up a mirror to society. The story follows Kerry at a sleepover with the socially awkward, mysteriously orphaned heiress Katie, who Kerry learns the hard way always gets what she wants. It warns us of a future in which we have grown so isolated that friendship and […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – AMERICAN RAPSTAR director Justin Staple
“The Soundcloud Rap documentary you’ve all been waiting for. Featuring some of the scene’s biggest stars. Packed full of great music, comical moments, and an eerie ending that will leave you at the edge of your seats.” Director Justin Staple on AMERICAN RAPSTAR which screens in the 2020 edition of SxSW Film. Editor’s Note: While […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – RUNON director Daniel Newell Kaufman
“All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he’s assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why of it–all before the person they’re running from puts together the pieces. RUNON is a short film that is a […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – Gholü by Oh Sees director Leo Nicholson
“It’s a stop-motion animation cannibal roller-coaster about a day in the life of a complicated cannibal.” Director Leo Nicholson on Gholü by Oh Sees, which screens in the music video section of SxSW 2020 Film. Editor’s Note: While SxSW was officially cancelled on March 6th, 2020, the below interview was one of many that already […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – NOOSE by Humans director Peter Ricq
“Our music video follows a sign spinner across Hollywood who only finds his joie de vie while sign spinning and listening to HUMANS (the band). Our lead is the three time world champion sign spinner Kadeem Johnson.” Director Peter Ricq on his music video Noose by the band Humans which shows in the music video […]