Calling Amanda Seyfried's character in Things Heard & Seen a "nervous-wife" type would be to misread this multifaceted character. Nothing li...
What would you do if the man you paid with a bottle of whiskey to guard the construction site your dad put you quasi in charge of turns into...
Nothing much really happens in one of the most striking scenes in Like a House on Fire. The protagonist, Dara (Sarah Sutherland), sits on a...
Night of the Kings (La nuit des rois) is a tour de force, but, seemingly impossibly, it's more than that — it's so subtly brilliant that the...
"You can't be what you can't see," says Alison Wonderland in Underplayed, a documentary about the dearth of gender, sexual, and ethnic repre...
You'd be wrong if you thought iskwē's acākosīk couldn't get better. If the Juno-nominated album can be likened to a beautifully destructive...
The first few moments of Cowboys play out like a Jimmy Stewart Western — The Cheyenne Social Club, to be exact. Two figures riding on a sing...
The title of Judas and the Black Messiah sets up a biblical dynamic that the film doesn't quite do justice to. Though a good primer for thos...
The reason behind why Steve Zahn agreed to the role of Troy in the Anna Kerrigan's film Cowboys is simple: "I sat down and read it and cried...
The space we occupy is a curious thing. I am in a contained room, but I am also in my mind within a room, and my mind is boundless. Is my ro...
It might be tempting to compare The White Tiger to Slumdog Millionaire, but you'd do a disservice to the former specifically and the genre o...
In her 1964 essay Notes on 'Camp', Susan Sontag says of camp that it is "the love of the exaggerated." In other words, what is campy isn't n...
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a perfect example of a well-adapted play: it's economical in its use of space, the monologues are mighty, and pe...
Yacht rock is like if disco and folk had a super chill baby. Not so much to be danced to as it is a soundtrack to sweet, calm thoughts by th...
With Happiest Season, Clea DuVall has gifted us what just might be the definitive modern Christmas rom-com (step aside, Love Actually and Th...
On paper, the Nicol Paone-written and -directed comedy Dinner with Friends looks lighthearted and fun — an easy and entertaining film for th...
The importance of Toronto-based director Andrew C's film White Elephant cannot be underestimated or succinctly described. This is, on the on...
Novelist Daphne du Maurier wove her favourite inspirations — water, dogs, food, suspense — into everything she wrote, from the grandest plot...
If success in art is measured, not by any academic rubric, but by the universal resonance of a deeply individualistic and personal, often wr...
Yellow Rose — one of the first movies with a Filipina director to be released domestically with Hollywood studio backing — will mightily def...
