With the recent Apple+/theatrical release ARGYLLE, I am somewhat baffled by Matthew Vaughan’s recent actioner. This new movie does not look or have the feeling of The Official Pitch: Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World franchise) is Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of best-selling espionage novels, whose idea of bliss is a night […]
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Contest: Win a Digital Copy of FLOAT from Elevation Pictures
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway! Enter to win a Digital Copy code for the latest release FLOAT from our supportive partners at Elevation Pictures. ABOUT: A city girl rejected by her parents makes an impulsive decision to fly to Tofino to spend the summer with her estranged aunt. A true fish out of water, she […]
Introducing The Get Reel Movies Podcast! Episode 1: Robert Billott discusses DARK WATERS
Get Reel Movies has a new podcast! Because what the world needs is another podcast, right? Welcome to the newest film podcast, Get Reel Movies, hosted by Daniel Chadwick-Shubat. Each episode we’ll be interviewing someone who’s story has been featured in a film based on a true story. Episodes will come out every fortnight as […]
Mean Girls (2024) Review: Is It Still Fetch?
I always felt like I was not the target audience for the Lindsay Lohan starring MEAN GIRLS, but I went on opening day in 2004 and remember laughing out loud constantly and was especially impressed in just how the Mark Waters-directed and Tina Fey written comedy really showcased teenager issues well at the time. Far […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of HELLHOUND from Mongrel Media
Happy New Year from Team GRM! Enter below to win a Digital Copy of HELLHOUND from our partners at Mongrel Media! ABOUT: In the heart of Bangkok, a seasoned hitman on the cusp of retirement finds himself pulled back into the deadly world he’s yearning to leave behind. Reluctantly accepting a final assignment, he believes […]
My Five Animated Films of 2023
Presented here are my top five favourite animated films of 2023, and they’re listed from best to least. These mini-reviews encapsulate why I think they work. Not only do they represent the best in narrative design but also they are worth seeing time and time again. SPIDER-MAN ACROSS THE SPIDER VERSE This sequel ups the […]
Between CANDY CANE LANE and DOLEMITE IS MY NAME, My Money is on the Latter.
Eddie Murphy’s family friendly films should be a sub-genre in itself. Not only are they thematically similar, but also sometimes offer some payoff that viewers can part with. However, his best movies are those when he’s allowed to be raunchy and off the wall, like DOLEMITE IS MY NAME (2019). But when he has to […]
TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR Review – 100% Pure Adrenaline
When I think of the name Taylor Swift I think of an incredibly famous, powerful and beautiful woman who has really transcended the world stage in entertainment and seems to have mostly done it all by herself. I have always been a casual fan of her work and on occasion had some of her songs […]
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Review – Scorsese Can Do Whatever He Wants
A huge wave of euphoria hit me about halfway through Martin Scorsese’s latest picture (he gets to call his movies “pictures”, therefore so do I) in that this is a filmmaker still at the top of his game after decades and still creates his movies on his own terms. Seeing something like KILLERS OF THE […]
Contest: Win a Digital Copy of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE from Paramount
Happy Monday! We are starting off the week with a BIG new contest with our favourite, Mr. Tom Cruise! Enter below to win an Apple TV Digital Copy of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE from our partners at Paramount Pictures Canada! ABOUT: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their […]
TIFF Reaction – Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
ABOUT: Quebec filmmaker Ariane Louis-Seize — whose sultry, stylish coming-of-age study Les petites vagues was named one of Canada’s Top Ten shorts in 2018 — graduates to features with this deadpan horror comedy about a young Montreal bloodsucker who can only feed on people for whom she feels sympathy. Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a teenage vampire — […]
TIFF 2023 Reaction – CHUCK CHUCK BABY
As the start of my TIFF 2023 reactions, I’d like to focus on my top picks of the festival, CHUCK CHUCK BABY, and the below reaction that I furiously typed into my iPad afterwards. I knew that I had just experienced genius and want to follow the journey of Janis Pugh’s wonderful new movie. ABOUT: […]
The 2023 Edition of the Toronto International Film Festival – Expect The Unexpected
Unless you have been living under a rock, you are aware of all of the problems currently happening in the film industry. Longest story short, the Hollywood system is on a major strike now for the writers and the actors and nothing is being created or even promoted right now. How this will affect the […]
TALK TO ME Review – Don’t Talk To The Hand
Where would horror movies be as a genre without teenagers making dumb choices about fooling around with the occult? We certainly wouldn’t have TALK TO ME, the new A24 film about how grasping an embalmed hand (ick!) and uttering a couple of incantations can pierce the veil between our world and the shadow world. Australian […]
SOUND OF FREEDOM Review – The Power In The Fight
SOUND OF FREEDOM doesn’t sound like something you would want to see on an evening out at the movies with its rather controversial subject, yet this groundbreaking and quite alarming new movie currently making waves in release I found such a powerful movie experience throughout. A lot of what you have been hearing about this […]