
"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 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...
Charlie Kaufman's latest meandering mind-bender, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, is a difficult film to talk about because it talks about its...
The world we're in right now might not be the best to release a film about saints and miracles into, which is what it appears to Fatima is a...
Grace Glowicki's directorial debut, Tito, is a strange little experimental film that garnered much acclaim in 2019 at the South by Southwest...
Beyond These Walls, the debut EP by Toronto-based power popsters BLANKS, is so great I wish it were a full-length album. Packing a new wave-...