Her Friend Adam is a testament to the character-based premise. Robert (played by the film’s writer-director Ben Petrie) feels insecure about his girlfriend Liv’s (Grace Glowicki) best friend, Adam (Andrew Chown). His insecurities are so
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The Handmaiden (Review)
Please, don’t take your kids to see this. Do not see this for a first date. I haven’t seen Oldboy, which is Handmaiden director Park Chan-wook’s first film. I heard about it. It made a good long splash,
Continue ReadingCloset Monster (Review)
Closet Monster picks its moments well. In the prelude to the main story, when protagonist Oscar Madly (Jack Fulton) is only about 10 years old, he witnesses older boys murder their rumoured-to-be-gay peer, his parents
Continue ReadingA teachable moment (Review)
Jason Jeffrey’s short, A Teachable Moment, amounts to more than just a moment. There are grains of wisdom throughout the film, thanks to an attention to detail in dialogue. A wounded, dying man (Ash Catherwood)
Continue ReadingI Thought I Told You To Shut Up (Review)
I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! documents the Hollywood rise and fall story that threatens any naïve and/or jaded outsider. In 1977, recent college graduate David Boswell moved to Vancouver and attempted to
Continue ReadingDual (EUFF Review)
Dual is a whirlwind romance between two lost young women over the course of twenty-four hours. Tina (played with incredible nuance by Nina Rakovec), a Slovenian hostel worker, finds the freedom to break from her
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