Michael Haneke’s (The White Ribbon, Amour) latest film is misnomer. There is nothing happy about this movie – and I loved it. The ironically named film is a dark, satirical drama about a seemingly perfect family on the surface, but is actually quite dysfunctional behind closed doors. Seeing Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant reunited as a […]
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TIFF 2017: ‘The Florida Project’ Review
Shot in beautiful pastel colours, Sean Baker’s The Florida Project is so intimate and real that you can almost feel the Floridian heat radiating on your skin. Set during the summer, the film follows Moonee, a young girl living with her mother, Halley, in an extended-stay motel. She explores her surroundings with her friends with a […]
TIFF 2017: ‘Porcupine Lake’ Review
Love never feels quite real from afar, but once you’re face to face with it, it’s like nothing else matters. Ingrid Veninger’s Porcupine Lake brings us an honest tale of discovery of a young girl named Bea, who meets Kate during a family trip. While Bea and Kate form a connection and explore a loss […]
TIFF 2017: ‘High Fantasy’ Review
The hedonistic era of filmmaking has had a much needed boost over the past few years, ones that gave off vibes of undoubtable realism. Jenna Bass’s High Fantasy is a movie that manages to keep that realization at hand with a twist to it. Here, a group of South African teens recoil a camping trip […]
TIFF 2017: ‘Novitiate’ Review
In recent years, there have been a couple films about the Catholic Church. Spotlight made us angry about the scandals behind closed doors. Ida let us see the psyche of a young woman who was about to take her vows to become a nun. Margaret Betts’ latest film, Novitiate, balances both of these stories. Cathleen (played by a […]
We Checked out the ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Costume Exhibit at Fan Expo 2017
Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok isn’t in theatres until November 3, 2017, but they brought an exclusive exhibit to Fan Expo 2017 so fans can see some of the amazing costumers from the film up close. We checked out the exhibit ourselves and were blown away by what we saw. The exhibit features six costumes from the film, […]
‘The Space Between’ Review: The Book Would have Been Better
The Space Between, written, directed, and produced by Amy Jo Johnson (who you may recognize as the Pink Power Ranger, Kimberly Hart from the 1990s series), would have been a good book. On a bright sunny morning, a new father, Mitch, finds out his miracle baby is not actually his. This sudden and unwelcome discovery […]
‘Blood Honey’ Review: An Enticing Canadian Thriller
After nearly a decade, Jenibel Heath (Shenae Grimes-Beech) returns home to be with her dying father. But her dysfunctional family still hasn’t gotten over her mother’s suicide and Jenibel struggles with her personal guilt and nightmares. Influenced by classics such as Vertigo, The Shining, and Rosemary’s Baby, Blood Honey is an enticing thriller set on a secluded island in […]
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‘Pilgrimage’ Review: Solid Talent Both In Front of and Behind the Camera
Pilgrimage is a good movie that could have been great if there was bigger budget. But at the same time, there is no big audience out there for a film like this so it’s difficult to blame the investors for keeping things small and place their bets instead on the talents of the crew in […]
CONTEST: Win Advance Screening Passes to ‘American Assassin’ across Canada
Enter for your chance to win a double pass to see American Assassin at an advance screening in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Halifax. Screenings take place on September 13, 2017 at 7 pm local time. There are two ways to win: Like our Facebook page, like the contest post on Facebook, and leave a Facebook comment […]
‘Death Note’ Review: Fails to Recapture the Manga Magic
Based on the Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note is about high school student Light Turner (Nat Wolff) who discovers a notebook that has magical powers. When he writes someones name in the notebook while picturing that person’s face, that person will die. Playing God, Light is now drunk on power […]
‘The Queen of Spain’ Review: A Forgettable Hollywood Caper
These days, it seems like every studio is scrambling to make sequels out of modern classics: the biggest culprit being the long line of Star Wars sequels and spin-offs that are rolling out for the foreseeable future. Elsewhere, we have Blade Runner 2049 and even Dazed and Confused’s “spiritual sequel” Everybody Wants Some!. A sequel you […]
Watch: ‘The Story of 90 Coins’ is a Beautiful and Poetic Short Film
Director Michael Wong is a Malaysian film director who is currently residing in Beijing. His directorial debut, The Story of 90 Coins, is a short film about a fashion designer who has to choose between keeping a promise she made or making her own dreams a reality. The film has picked up many accolades at various film […]
‘Bushwick’ Review: Ambitious, but Fails to Deliver
In indie action film Bushwick, a stark departure from director duo Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion’s previous feature Cooties, Brittany Snow stars as Lucy, a 20-year-old student who has come back to her home in Brooklyn to visit her grandmother. Unbeknownst to her, the neighbourhood has fallen into chaos after an invasion from a Texan […]