A post-9/11 world rife with domestic terrorism is one our youth should be allowed to avoid. Parents seek an escape as well, though, something that risks leaving...
As a modern cinephile, there’s the common feeling of being overwhelmed by just how much you have to watch, that even when narrowing the entire history of cinema...
Six (well-off, by implication) men and their dutiful cabin boy (regrettably not played by Chris Elliott) vacation on the Greek coast aboard a yacht. Needing to ...
Kill Your Friends is a pungent, thoroughly hollow failure as a comedy, a "thriller," and a document of a fascinating era in modern pop music. That it is watchab...
Honoring the spirit of the namesake of TIFF’s Wavelengths program, another Toronto-based filmmaker masterfully plays with space and time creating what has been ...
Proving yet again that festival juries don’t read the trades or pay attention to chatter, the Golden Lion of the 72nd Venice Film Festival was presented to the ...
At only two feature films, Toronto-based writer-director Kazik Radwanski has already formed a clear thematic through line. His previous picture, Tower, was abou...
Finding solace in constancy - times of turbulent change and ever-shifting paradigms of social expectations can be a source of intense stress - and the desire fo...
With comparisons to Hitchcock and Polanski, David Farr's directorial debut The Ones Below starts behind the eight ball straight away. There are definite moments...
There's a lot I like about Bruce McDonald's latest horror Hellions. Just as much also has me scratching my head, though. While this sometimes enhances the exper...
