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Coming Distractions (Review)

April 25, 2017April 24, 2017ReviewComing Distractions

First day of a new job is always scary and awkward when you don’t exactly know everyone just yet. And Coming Distractions shows us an all too familiar feeling in the pilot episode. Rebecca (Felicia

Menorca (Review)

April 21, 2017April 20, 2017ReviewMenorca, Tammy Gillis

Let’s talk about traveling films. No, NOT the film production from Quebec, films that take you on trips. I’ve seen so many trip/journey films and they’re all pretty basic: Zany adventures meeting strange people on

The Saddest Music in the World – Review

April 19, 2017April 17, 2017ReviewGuy Maddin, The Saddest Music in the World

He may be a difficult director to decipher at times, but I was always going to come back for more of Canada’s own Guy Maddin. Last year I watched two of his films, My Winnipeg

Goon (Review)

April 12, 2017April 12, 2017ReviewGoon, Hockey, NHL

The NHL playoffs kick-off today, and so in the spirit of any sports fan, it seems only right that I review a hockey film this week. Considering that I am more than partial to the

Win it All (Review)

April 12, 2017October 13, 2017ReviewJake Johnson, Win It All

Win It All is a one man show. Jake Johnson has been working towards this. Beloved on New Girl, he has since launched himself, with the help of indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg, into a respectable

Cube (Review)

April 5, 2017April 2, 2017ReviewCube, Vincenzo Natali

My issue with a lot of horror and thriller films today, is that they tend to be overly predictable, caving easily to genre conventions instead of taking bold risks. As I watched the 1997 film

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