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Being Canadian (Review)

July 5, 2016July 4, 2016ReviewBeing Canadian, film Being Canadian, Robert Cohen

At one point Robert Cohen, the writer-director of Being Canadian, parks outside his old high school. He wants to prove wrong the teacher who told him he’d never amount to anything. He yells (from inside

The List (Review)

July 4, 2016July 4, 2016Reviewcanada film industry news today, Ian MacDonald, Madchen Amick, Mark Walker, review, Ryan O'Neal, The List, The List (Review)

What is it with all these full lengths about legal matters and civil authorities being really bad movies? Or, to put it lightly, having mediocre content. I kind of have to wonder if this is

Film Review | One Night in Aberdeen (2014)

June 30, 2016July 21, 2017ReviewBrett Ferster, One Night in Aberdeen

Film run-time: 24 minutes | Starring David Trimble, Julie Orton, Benjamin Laird Directed by Brett Ferster, Written by Mark Hopkins and Charles Netto, Produced by Jayson Therrien “One Night in Aberdeen“, a 2014 short film

HUSH (Review)

June 29, 2016June 29, 2016Reviewdocumentary, Drew Martin, HUSH, Joses Martin, Punam Kumar Gill

At the core of this documentary is a debate, “not on the morality of abortion, but on the morality of telling the truth about it”, as one medical expert says toward the end. Filmmaker Punam

Rencontre (Review)

June 29, 2016November 17, 2021ReviewBrennan Martin, canada film industry news today, canadian independent film, Florian Francois, Mylène Thériault, Rencontre, TAPFest, The Actors Place, TIFF, Will Bembridge

Rencontre is a simple, bittersweet haiku about unexpected encounters and their equally unexpected brevity, directed by Toronto-based director Brennan Martin. The short film won the awards for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Film at

I Killed My Mother (Review)

June 28, 2016June 27, 2016Reviewcanada film industry news today, canadian independent film, I Killed My Mother, I Killed My Mother (Review), Xavier Dolan

Xavier Dolan’s directorial debut is a mixture of teenage angst, foresight, empathy, and most importantly it’s a work that is semi-autobiographical. I Killed My Mother is the story of a 17-year-old, conflicted young man. He