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National Canadian Film Day: Revisiting LAST NIGHT

April 28, 2020March 9, 2021ReviewCallum Keith Rennie, Don McKellar, Encore+, Last Night, Sandra Oh

The anxiety around Y2K seems almost quaint 20 years on. It turned out to be just one of many end of the world predictions that failed to materialize including the more recent Mayan-favourite endgame of

First Stripes Gives a Good Glance of Training Days

April 23, 2020May 11, 2020ReviewFirst Stripes, Jean-Francois Caissy

Whenever someone comes across something military-themed, they think of marching and routines, and salutes, and everything battle-related while some big guy is yelling your ear off. At least that’s what the fictional movies show. But

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (Review)

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020ReviewJacob Tremblay, Kit Harrington, Natalie Portman, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Xaxier Dolan

Given the prodigious nature of Xavier Dolan’s filmmaking career and the frequency at which he churns out productions that he has, at the very least, written, produced and directed, I have made a point of

KILLER QUEEN a Psycho Peek at Cinema’s Underground

April 14, 2020April 13, 2020ReviewFatima Maziani, Killer Queen, Ramin Fahrenheit

Freddy Mercury may have been lampooning the upper crust in the 1974 hit Killer Queen, but Ramin Fahrenheit’s psycho-drama of the same name keeps things much closer to the poverty line. It’s a curiosity I

THE DECLINE Plays a Chilling Game of Survivor

April 7, 2020April 1, 2020ReviewGuillaume Laurin, Marc Beaupré, Marie-Evelyne Lessard, Réal Bossé, The Decline

With the theatrical release calendar virtually vacant for the foreseeable future, there’s never been a better time to have your film premiere on the plethora of streaming services available in this quarantined, fibre-optic age. Even

Ice Breakers – Mini-Review

April 2, 2020March 9, 2021ReviewHockey, Ice Breakers, Josh Crooks, Lee Francis

Have you wondered what hockey players think when they’re out on the ice? What about those who are black? Something to keep in mind is that there’s not that many (that people are aware of)