In an interview with The Guardian early last year, David Cronenberg, to the dismay of many, reiterated his words from the Venice Film Festival, in that while he was working on getting a number of
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HBO’s The Last of Us to Shoot in Calgary, said to be Largest Production in Canadian History
I’m pretty much stating the obvious by this point, but it seems that with each passing year the Canadian film industry grows ever larger. Yet, what is noteworthy about that statement is that its growth
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City and Mortal Kombat Could Be the Video Game Movies We’ve Been Waiting For, and Both Feature Canadian Actors
Yesterday, the title of the cinematic reboot for video game developer Capcom’s genre-defining series, Resident Evil, was revealed, and…it’s a little underwhelming. To be fair, while its subtitle of Welcome to Racoon City hardly screams
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Canadians Largely Overlooked in A Delightfully Eclectic List of Oscar Nominees
Strange times can breed strange behaviours. For proof, just think back to the beginning of this pandemic when people prioritised hoarding toilet paper above all else. Then, this morning, a little over a year since
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PG: Psycho Goreman Review
PG Psycho Goreman does not inspire confidence in its opening moments. I knew what I was getting into, adjusting my expectations accordingly, yet I still found myself thinking “OK, here we go, another Hobo with
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Allan Moyle’s Pump Up the Volume is the Ultimate Generation X Film
Say what you will, but it is no easy task for a film to capture the mood of its time. Sure, the likes Fight Club and The Social Network, both directed by David Fincher, and
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