Catalysts: Our Review of ‘Alam’ on Film Movement

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 24, 2024
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Catalysts: Our Review of ‘Alam’ on Film Movement

Palestinians, especially according to European colonists in the Apartheid State, are a collective with a political mind. This runs in contrast with films that actually give Palestinians a voice like Firas Khoury’s Alam. The film’s elevator pitch is that its protagonist, Tamer (Mahmood Bakri), starts out as an apolitical person. The teen then wakes up […]

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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘An Unfinished Journey’

Festival Coverage ‐ ‐ April 24, 2024
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Hot Docs 2024: Our Review of ‘An Unfinished Journey’

A female Afghan MP, Zefnoon Safi, looks out the window of her comfortable hotel room in Calgary, Alberta. She watches a flock of birds fly away, an image viewers might associate with a freedom humans don’t have. She is one of a few female Afghan politicians and journalists who had to leave Afghanistan after its […]

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‘The Big Door Prize’: Getting the Scoop from the Stars on Season 2

Apple TV +, Interviews ‐ ‐ April 23, 2024
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‘The Big Door Prize’: Getting the Scoop from the Stars on Season 2

Prepare to unravel more mysteries of The Big Door Prize! The Big Door Prize is the critically acclaimed series from Emmy Award-winning creator and Torontonian David West Read (Schitt’s Creek). Based on M.O. Walsh’s novel, The Big Door Prize‘s second season follows the residents of Deerfield. This tima around, the Morpho machine gets them ready […]

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WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF ‘THE FALL GUY’ HERE IN TORONTO!!!

Giveaways/Contests, Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ April 22, 2024
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WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF ‘THE FALL GUY’ HERE IN TORONTO!!!

Sometimes love takes a little more than a leap to make it come to fruition… He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track […]

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Rules Don’t Apply: Our Review of ‘Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World’

Theatrical, What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 21, 2024
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Rules Don’t Apply: Our Review of ‘Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World’

A favourite from festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival, Radu Jude’s new film Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World is a masterclass of multitasking. The film incorporates clips from Communist Era Romanian film Angela Moves On. There, that titular taxi driver (Dorina Lazăr) eats on the road and drives […]

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A Gory Good Time: Our Review of ‘Abigail’

Movies ‐ ‐ April 19, 2024
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A Gory Good Time: Our Review of ‘Abigail’

Vampire films come in all forms, from comedies to horror and even romance.  The creatures themselves come in all shapes and sizes as well, from little children to the grotesque, barely human monster. The titular character of Abigail is one of the former, and as for the film, there is no doubt it’s a horror, […]

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How To Live Off the Land: Our Review of ‘Food, Inc. 2’

Festival Coverage, Movies ‐ ‐ April 19, 2024
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How To Live Off the Land: Our Review of ‘Food, Inc. 2’

Food service workers and farmers are essential workers and, in a perfect world, the world will treat them as such. Food, Inc. 2 shows that North American capitalism ‘perfects’ and tweaks a lot of things except for compensating workers properly. People watching this movie aren’t brand new to this information, as it shows a food […]

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What We Know (So Far) About ‘Inside Out 2’

Blog ‐ ‐ April 18, 2024
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What We Know (So Far) About ‘Inside Out 2’

Ah, Inside Out, the classic 2015 Pixar movie that took us inside the mind of a tween girl named Riley. And what did we find there? A team of hardworking emotions that guided her through life. Starring Amy Poehler as Joy (as in the emotion, not just the woman’s name) and a bevy of talented […]

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A National Canadian Film Day Must See!: Our Review of ‘The Ernie Game’ (1967)

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 17, 2024
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A National Canadian Film Day Must See!: Our Review of ‘The Ernie Game’ (1967)

The Ernie Game (1967) is set in Montreal in the middle of the winter. The film follows Ernie Turner (Alexis Kanner), who gets involved with two different women. One is a seamstress who is his ex-girlfriend Gail (Jackie Burroughs). The other is Donna (Judith Gault) who is a single mother and a copywriter. At the […]

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Altered Innocence: Our Review of ‘Saturday Night at the Baths’ on OVID

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 14, 2024
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Altered Innocence: Our Review of ‘Saturday Night at the Baths’ on OVID

A film with a title like Saturday Night at the Baths will give its audiences certain expectations. Somehow, this film subverts such expectations by depicting a heterosexual sex scene evoking Varda but you know, less good. We can file this film under the ‘product of its time’ microgenre as a queer film with a heterosexual […]

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