Reviews: Dry Leaf from TIFF 2025 September 3, 2025 Final Rating: 4/5 Dry Leaf is a challenging, deeply affecting film showcasing a unique view of the Georgian countryside. Shot on a 2008 Sony… Continue Reading
312: TIFF50 Preview September 2, 2025 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival. Dakota and Jeff each pick 3 under the radar choices of movies… Continue Reading
Reviews: Self-Help from FrightFest 2025 August 25, 2025 Final Rating: 3/5 Not quite a movie about cults, not quite a home invasion movie, Self-Help, from director Erik Bloomquist, is inventively subversive in… Continue Reading
Reviews: Contact Lens from Fantasia Festival 2025 August 20, 2025 Final Rating: 4/5 Contact Lens begins with an unnamed woman putting in a contact lens as an alarm sound repeats in the background. As… Continue Reading
311: Rashomon at 75 Years August 19, 2025 Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon celebrates its 75th birthday this month, so Dakota and Jeff are joined by Martyn Strange to talk about it! Continue Reading
Reviews: The Woman from Fantasia Festival 2025 August 18, 2025 Final Rating: 1/5 In The Woman, Sun-kyung (Han Hye-ji) meets with an internet stranger, Young-hwan (Kim Hee-sang), offering a free cordless vacuum cleaner. But… Continue Reading
Reviews: Russians at War August 15, 2025 Russians at War is a supposed impartial documentary about Russias invasion into Ukraine, that works better as a think piece than it does as a film. Continue Reading
Reviews: Suspended Time August 14, 2025 Final Rating: 1.5/5 In the wake of any global event, countless pieces of media are made to reflect what life was like during it,… Continue Reading
Reviews: Stinker from Fantasia Festival 2025 August 13, 2025 Stinker is a light dramedy about an alien that lands in Kazakhstan and befriends a homeless man and grumpy elderly lady as they all learn to be friends. Continue Reading
Reviews: $POSITIONS from Fantasia Festival 2025 August 12, 2025 $POSITIONS uses cryptocurrency is used to show the new found way that addiction can take hold in people’s lives, especially in the form of gambling. Continue Reading
