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Lord Jones is Dead (Review)

July 26, 2016July 25, 2016ReviewAndrew Holmes, Austin Andrews, Journalists, Lord Jones is Dead, Photographer, review, Vancouver

Directed by Vancouver’s own Austin Andrews and Andrew Holmes, Lord Jones Is Dead is like the Office Space of print journalism. Two journalists and a photographer wait outside a house that may or may not

A Wealth of Production

July 19, 2016July 19, 2016Today's Top StoriesVancouver, Vancouver Film Commission Office

This season proves that Vancouver is still one of the most popular cities in which to shoot. All the way from superhero series to alternative history series set up camp here and use the city’s

Mommy (Review)

July 12, 2016July 11, 2016ReviewAnna Dorval, canada film industry news today, Die, Mommy, review, Steve, Xavier Dolan

Mommy, Xavier Dolan’s 2014 film, retreads the same ground I Killed My Mother successfully tackled. “Steve” is a troubled youth, and his equally troubled mother, “Die”, struggles to make ends meet. Correctional institutions, teenage rebelliousness,

Being Canadian (Review)

July 5, 2016July 4, 2016ReviewBeing Canadian, film Being Canadian, Robert Cohen

At one point Robert Cohen, the writer-director of Being Canadian, parks outside his old high school. He wants to prove wrong the teacher who told him he’d never amount to anything. He yells (from inside

I Killed My Mother (Review)

June 28, 2016June 27, 2016Reviewcanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, I Killed My Mother, I Killed My Mother (Review), Xavier Dolan

Xavier Dolan’s directorial debut is a mixture of teenage angst, foresight, empathy, and most importantly it’s a work that is semi-autobiographical. I Killed My Mother is the story of a 17-year-old, conflicted young man. He

Survivors Rowe (Review with Trailer)

June 21, 2016June 20, 2016Reviewcanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Daniel Roher, documentary, First Nations, Survivors Rowe

Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher’s short documentary Survivors Rowe focuses on the man that links the film’s three interviewees: Priest Ralph Rowe. In the 1970s, Rowe came to Angling Lake in Northern Ontario by seaplane to