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Documenting Truths: The Hot Docs Audience Award Winners That Shaped Canadian Perspectives

March 4, 2025March 3, 2025The Bottom LineCanadian documentaries, documentaries, Hot Docs

The unchanging power of documentary films is their ability to reflect and shape social views, providing a glimpse in the intimate convincingly that completely different experiences are on the very same. That is done right

Unconventional Cinema: The Weirdest Movies Filmed in Canada

February 25, 2025February 24, 2025The Bottom LineArchangel, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Brandon Cronenberg, Cube, David Cronenberg, Denis Villeneuve, Pontypool, Professor, Psycho Goreman, The Brood, The Forbidden Room, The Saddest Music in the World, Weird, Wolfcop

Canada has been turning out films that push the storytelling, aesthetics, and genre conventions to their extremes since the dawn of time. Like Hollywood is to mainstream Cinema, Canada has become noted for having a

Hidden Filming Locations in Vancouver

February 11, 2025February 10, 2025The Bottom LineCommercial Drive, Deep Cove, Downtown Vancouver, Filming Locations, Gastown, Grouse Mountain, Lonsdale Quay, Stanley Park

Vancouver is known as a go to for movie makers because of its stunning landscapes and urban spaces. The city has become ‘Hollywood North’ with blockbuster films, TV shows and commercials. However, Vancouver has other

Snowbound Thrillers: How Canada’s Harsh Winters Shaped Its Psychological Horror Genre

February 4, 2025February 3, 2025The Bottom LineBlack Christmas, Canadian Horror Films, Frozen, Horror, Indigenous Stories, Pontypool, The Brood, The Colony, Winter

Canada’s winters are harsh, cold, isolating and in some cases, deadly. It has created a psychological horror genre that is obsessed with isolation, paranoia, and the slow unraveling of the mind in this extreme environment.

Ryan Gosling Reportedly in Talks to Lead Shawn Levy’s Untitled Star Wars Movie

January 29, 2025January 27, 2025The Bottom LineRyan Gosling, Shawn Levy, Star Wars

In the years since the 2019 release of the painfully middling Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, Disney were clearly unsure of where next to take the silver screen iterations of Star Wars following

Top 5 Hidden Gems in Canadian Cinema That Will Blow Your Mind

January 29, 2025February 3, 2025The Bottom LineAway from Her, Cloudburst, Maudie, Pontypool, The Sweet Hereafter

The Canadian film world remains overshadowed by Hollywood but contains countless amazing hidden treasures that will surprise you. These Canadian films transcend classic movie formats because they show you immense open spaces and immerse you

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