At the same time as my screening for 80 for Brady was a special preview of Magic Mike's Last Dance. Two very distinct crowds milled outside...
There's a lot to unwrap in Elijah Bynum's Magazine Dreams. The exploration and unravelling of extreme masculinity through an amateur bodybui...
It's official: this is Mia Goth's world and we're all just living in it. Ever since her feature film debut in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac...
Kristen Roupenian's short story Cat Person set off a storm of online discourse in 2017 when it was originally published in The New Yorker. R...
Documentarians have a choice to make before they hit record: do we make a film that simply collates information and presents it as is, leavi...
Frankenstein author Mary Shelley's life was marred by illness and the deaths of those closest to her, including a miscarriage and the premat...
Born in Edmonton and raised in Burnaby, BC, Michael J. Fox is a national treasure. His self-effacing, boyish charms and good looks made him...
Screenlife films have become a genre unto themselves with varying degrees of success. The most well-received has, without a doubt, been 2018...
The Son befuddles viewers with every passing minute. How could a cast this talented struggle to keep the movie afloat? How could the same fi...
January is not know for having a particularly strong film calendar to get excited about – although, M3GAN has been making waves this year –...
Back in December 2021 to combat the tedium of another lockdown, I was scrolling through Reddit's r/Filmmakers sub. A post titled, "Skinamari...
Avan Jogia's neo-noir, gumshoe detective story is a highly-stylized affair. While the story and pacing are, at times, lacklustre, Jogia give...
Joining the fine echelon of to-the-point-one-word disaster movies, à la Twister and Volcano, is Gerard Butler's latest, Plane. A typical pla...
It can be hard to truly encapsulate what an inanimate object means to a person, let alone to an entire industry. Giles Martin, record produc...
Last year was a great one for movies, with big spectacles and horror leading the way. Now that 2022 is firmly in the rearview, it's time to...
The general premise of The Pale Blue Eye had me on board straight away. It's a detective story set in 1830 USA with one of American literatu...
"A poison pen letter to Hollywood but a love letter to movies" is how Damien Chazelle describes his latest film, the drug-fuelled, boozed-up...
Darren Aronofsky's latest shows the effects of grief and trauma on a man and those closest to him. After suffering a significant loss in his...
The following article contains potentially triggering material relating to sexual assault and violence. If you believe you have experienced...
'Tis the season for lazy afternoons cozied up next to the fireplace with a hot drink and streaming services. Great Canadian detective storie...
