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Trench 11 – Review

September 4, 2018February 5, 2020ReviewDylan Macleod, Rossif Sutherland, Trench 11

Canada has been rather unlucky in the war film genre. Canadians were all but erased from The Great Escape and homegrown war films like Passchendaele are few and far between given the great cost of producing them.

Little Italy – Review

August 28, 2018March 2, 2020ReviewAdam Ferrara, Alyssa Milano, Emma Roberts, Hayden Christensen, Little Italy

“Romeo and Juliet died!” remarks one character to another after being compared to the tragic Shakespearian couple. Nothing quite so sordid befalls the protagonists of Little Italy, set among the Toronto district of the same

Summer of ’84 – Review

August 21, 2018February 5, 2020ReviewCaleb Emery, Cory Grunter-Andrew, Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Summer of '84

15 year-old Davey Armstrong (Graham Verchere) is slumming it through yet another boring summer in unassuming Ipswitch, Oregon. When not delivering papers or playing “manhunt” with the other neighbourhood kids, he delves deep into conspiracy

VQFF: 1985 Review

August 14, 2018February 5, 2020Review1985, AIDS, Cory Michael Smith, VQFF, Yen Tan

It was on September 17, 1985 that then-U.S President Ronald Reagan first publicly acknowledged Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in response to a question about federal funding for cure research. Two months earlier, famed 50s heartthrob

VQFF – Octavio is Dead! (Review)

August 7, 2018February 5, 2020ReviewDmitris Kitsos, Octavio is Dead, Raoul Trujillo, Rosanna Arquette, Sarah Gadon, VQFF

“Find out what makes you happy and do it” says one character to the protagonist of Sook-Yin Lee’s supernatural drama Octavio is Dead! This is not always easily accomplished, especially when one’s happiness may come at

Kayak to Klemtu – Review

July 31, 2018March 2, 2020ReviewJared Ager-Foster, Kayak to Klemtu, Lorne Cardinal, Sarah Kelly, Sonja Bennet, Ta'kaiya Blaney, Zoe Hopkins

We all have that person in our lives who leaves a huge impact upon their passing. Mourning, working through the pain and ultimately moving forward is a very personal process but often can’t be done