“When we think of the year ’67-68,” one of Jukebox‘s many interview subjects relates, “Pantis was the king. The numbers are there to prove it.” The son of Greek immigrants, Denis Pantis had dreams of
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VSFF 2021 Reviews in a Capsule Vol 2
By sheer accident, all the shorts in this week’s batch begin with “the”. I only realized this three selections in so I figured I might as well make it a matching set. While the titles
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VSFF 2021 Reviews in a Capsule
Considering that every film at the dawn at cinema was a “short film” before the hour-plus feature length became standard in the 1910s, it is a shame that the short form has been granted Rodney
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CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER Forecasts a Cerebral Minefield
Don’t you think this is a little odd? Oklahoma-based director Mickey Reece has almost self-deprecatingly referred to his filmmaking style as “people talking in rooms”. Still, David Mamet once said that that’s all you really
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Start Your Year Right with an INDIAN ROAD TRIP
I’ve written extensively on what I consider to be an “Indigenous New Wave” sweeping Canadian cinema these past few years. Often featuring new and emerging voices, these pictures are a key part of reconciliation between
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Critic’s Choice: Top 5 of (*Sigh*) 2020
Interesting, unexpected and catastrophic are all words you could use to describe the opening salvo of the new ’20s. The COVID-19 pandemic has proved particularly difficult to the film industry where the near-universal shutdown of
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