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Toni Erdmann (VIFF Review)

January 24, 2017January 21, 2017ReviewBucharest, Ines Conradi, Maren Ades, Toni Erdmann

Writer-director Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann operates based on a sitcom premise that then develops to become a story about existentialism. A hard-working businesswoman, Ines Conradi (Sandra Hüller) has no time for her father Winfried Conradi

Film Review | Don’t Walk Among the Dead (2016)

January 19, 2017July 19, 2017ReviewDon't Walk Among the Dead, Satinder Kassoana

Film run-time: 15 minutes | Starring Angela Giffin, Julian Black Antelope, Brenna Sommer Written and Directed by Satinder Kassoana, Exec. Produced by Satinder Kassoana and Julian Black Antelope, Cinematography by Philip Bowen “Don’t Walk Among

Her Friend Adam (Review)

January 17, 2017January 15, 2017ReviewBen Petrie, Her Friend Adam

Her Friend Adam is a testament to the character-based premise. Robert (played by the film’s writer-director Ben Petrie) feels insecure about his girlfriend Liv’s (Grace Glowicki) best friend, Adam (Andrew Chown). His insecurities are so

Sweeping Forward (Review)

January 13, 2017January 13, 2017ReviewAnne-Marie Saheb, Curling, Patricia MacDowell, review, Sweeping Forward

Everyone finds themselves dealing with this problem, whether they know it or not, and this problem is anxiety of competition. It doesn’t just affect average folks, it affects most of us in the film industry

Film Review | 12 Weeks (2015)

January 12, 2017July 19, 2017Review12 Weeks, Marc-Andre Girard

Film run-time: 13 minutes | Starring Rémi-Pierre Paquin, Anne-Marie Égré, Charlotte St-Martin Written and Directed by Marc-André Girard, Cinematography by Serge Desrosiers, Edited by Bernard-Eric Malouin “12 Weeks“, a 2015 short film by Marc-André Girard, is a

Scanners (Review)

January 11, 2017July 31, 2019ReviewDavid Cronenberg, Michael Ironside, Scanners, Stephen Lack

My viewing of David Cronenberg’s catalogue of films has been anything but sequential. In fact, I have almost unconsciously been watching a number of his films in backwards order, which has inadvertently offered an interesting