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Author: Brodie Cotnam

Brodie Cotnam is an author and screenwriter based in Ottawa. His short film ‘The Gift’ was screened at several festivals, and his feature length screenplays have won numerous contests and accolades. He thoroughly enjoys film discourse, but remember “you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!”

Reviews: Dreams from Genre Gems 2025

October 9, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 Dreams, the latest drama from Mexican director Michel Franco (see our review of Memory) stars Jessica Chastain as Jennifer McCarty, a…

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Reviews: A Useful Ghost from Genre Gems 2025

October 7, 2025

Final Rating: 3.5/5 We all want to be remembered… From Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, comes this unique tale of love, loss, and tragedy in…

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Blog: Genre Gems Film Festival Preview

October 1, 2025

From October 1st to 5th the inaugural Genre Gems Film Festival will bring some of the best genre films to the nation’s capital in…

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Reviews: A Private Life from TIFF 2025

September 22, 2025

A Private Life is a mystery about a patient who takes their own life and the doctor that tries to prove it may have been foul play, starring Jodie Foster.

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Reviews: Saipan from TIFF 2025

September 18, 2025

Saipan covers the lead up to the 2002 World Cup of soccer, where Irish captain Roy Keane is debating whether or not to play for national team.

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Reviews: Exit 8 from TIFF 2025

September 16, 2025

Final Rating: 3.5/5 We’re all trying to escape something… Based on a video game, Japanese director Genki Kawamura’s The Exit 8 brings to life…

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Reviews: Bonjour Tristesse

June 11, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness) is the aptly named drama from writer/director Durga Chew-Bose based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan….

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Reviews: Matt and Mara

May 28, 2025

Matt and Mara is about two friends who reconnect, Matt is a successful author while Mara is a creative writing professor who struggles with her own output.

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Reviews: So Surreal: Behind the Masks from IFFO 2025

April 22, 2025

So Surreal: Behind the Masks brings to light how the surrealist movement was inspired by indigenous art and the attempts to get these pieces back.

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Reviews: Grand Tour from IFFO 2025

April 21, 2025

Grand Tour unfolds in two distinct parts detailing the story of two ill fated lovers. First the journey of Edward and then of his fiancé Molly.

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