“STUFFED is not what you think it is. It is a documentary about taxidermy, but seen through the lens of true artists and conservationists. It is bright, lighthearted, beautiful and full of life. We follow four of the most elite taxidermists around the world. They have to know chemistry and anatomy with the same mastery […]
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All the latest movie reviews for films released in Canada.
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – I SEE YOU director Adam Randall
“I SEE YOU is a dark, twisting thriller. It starts with a young boy’s disappearance, the second in so many days, and reveals itself to be a case eerily familiar to one that took place fifteen years earlier. While the lead detective tries to discover what happened to these boys, strange, and increasingly sinister happenings […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – AMAZONIA GROOVE director Bruno Murtinho
“AMAZONIA GROOVE is a sensitive documentary about the fascinating musicality of nine remarkable musicians, coming from different backgrounds, with different musical styles, but with one thing in common: all of them living on the banks of the Amazon River, in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil. And when I write “a sensitive documentary” I […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – LEAVE THE BUS THROUGH THE BROKEN WINDOW director Andrew Hevia
“LEAVE THE BUS THROUGH THE BROKEN WINDOW is about the time I moved to Hong Kong to make a film about art, but instead made one about my broken heart and that time I got lost inside a shopping mall. It’s deeply personal but also playful movie about a complicated city and the year I […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – GO BACK TO CHINA director Emily Ting
“GO BACK TO CHINA is a coming of age story about a spoiled rich girl who, after blowing through half of her trust fund, is forced by her father to go back to China and work for the family business. What started out as a way to regain financial support soon turns into a journey […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – PIG HAG directors Colby Holt & Sam Probst
“Jodie, a single 36-year-old travel nurse, compares herself to the world around her. While attending a Guns N’ Roses concert, she thinks she may have met her potential match — until he ghosts on her the next day.” Directors Colby Holt & Sam Probst on PIG HAG which screens at the 2019 edition of South […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – WELL GROOMED director Rebecca Stern
“WELL GROOMED is about the world of competitive creative dog grooming and the women who groom their poodles into fantastic technicolor sculptures. It is an escape from the everyday stress into the passion of a niche community of women spending quality time with their animals.” Congratulations on WELL GROOMED playing at SxSW this year! Is […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES diretor Jessica Oreck
“I like to describe ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES as part documentary, part legend and part oral history. It’s the true story of one of the world’s most important seed banks and the heroism of the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. But the whole film takes […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – LA MALA NOCHE director Gabriela Calvache
“A brave and elegant woman prostitutes herself to meet her pimp, but an unexpected event forces her to make a very dangerous decision. A chain of events leads to a point of no return.” Director Gabriela Calvache on LA MALA NOCHE which screens at the 2019 edition of SxSW Film. Congratulations on your film playing […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – BREAKTHROUGH director Bill Haney
“Rebel. Pioneer. Cancer survivor. Nobel Prize winner. Musician. Texan. Jim Allison. Breakthrough is the astounding, inspiring, true story of Jim Allison’s stubborn, visionary and extraordinarily successful quest to find a cure for cancer.” Director Bill Haney on BREAKTHROUGH which screens at the 2019 edition of SxSW Film. I hear you are back at SxSW this […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPERS director Kestrin Pantera
“MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPERS is a funny dysfunctional family drama, inspired by true events, about how family ties can twist and tear you– and though they may not break you, they might send you to jail. It’s a rock and rollin’, shit-kicking, dope smokin’, party havin’ tale about what happens when a group of adult siblings […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – OTHER SIDE OF THE BOX director Caleb J. Phillips
“Literally, it’s just about two people opening a box, and their lives going to hell. They become trapped in a bizarre, rule based, home invasion. It’s about fear of the unknown, and how little it takes to be make us feel unsafe.” Director Caleb J. Phillips on OTHER SIDE OF THE BOX which screens in […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – JEZEBEL director Numa Perrier
“JEZEBEL is my true story of when I lived with my older sister, her boyfriend, her son and my brother in a studio apartment in Las Vegas. My sister worked from home as a phone sex operator so when it was time for her shift we’d either have to leave or put our Walkman on…it […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – TALES FROM THE LODGE director Abigail Blackmore
“TALES FROM THE LODGE is an amusing creeper about five friends reuniting at an isolated lodge. One of them has brought his new girlfriend along and this causes arguments within the group which leads to the girlfriend storming off into the woods. When she returns an hour later she has some very bad news for […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – AUTONOMY director Alex Horwitz
“AUTONOMY is a documentary about the future. It’s the first deep-dive documentary about self-driving cars — how they work, how they don’t work, and how they stand to change society. It will satisfy the tech nerds, to be sure, but I think we made something that will appeal to everyone. It’s about trust, control, fear, […]