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Author: Jeff Bulmer

Jeff Bulmer is the co-host and co-creator of Classic Movies Live! He was also formerly a film critic for the Kelowna Daily Courier. Jeff’s favourite movies include Redline, Spider-Man 2, and Requiem for a Dream.

Reviews: Parthenope

February 24, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 Set primarily in director Paolo Sorrentino’s home city of Naples, A24’s Parthenope follows a girl from her birth in 1950 until…

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Reviews: Dark Match

February 17, 2025

Final Rating: 1.5/5 In Dark Match, directed by Lowell Dean, a wrestling company takes a well-paying gig in a small town but they soon…

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Reviews: I’m Still Here

February 10, 2025

Final Rating: 4/5 In 1996, Eunice Facciolla Paiva, a Brazilian lawyer and activist, was issued a death certificate for her husband, Rubens Paiva. Rubens,…

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Reviews: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

December 6, 2024

Final Rating: 3/5 There’s a dreamlike quality to Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point, the latest from director Tyler Thomas Taormina. Taormina invites the audience…

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Reviews: 100 Yards

November 12, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 In 100 Yards, a series of duels between two rivals over control of a martial arts academy engulfs the city of…

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Reviews: Juror #2

November 8, 2024

Final Rating: 4.5/5 In Juror #2, Nicholas Hoult plays Justin Kemp, a man called for jury duty in a trial surrounding the murder of…

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Reviews: The Carpenter

November 5, 2024

Final Rating: 2/5 From director Garrett Batty, The Carpenter tells the larger-than-life story of Oren (Kameron Krebs), a “Northman” in Ancient Palestine who becomes…

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Reviews: Twisters

October 30, 2024

Final Rating: 4.5/5 There’s something magical to Twisters, this year’s major summer blockbuster about storm-chasing. A legacy sequel to the Jan de Bont-directed Twister…

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Reviews: The Apprentice

October 21, 2024

The Apprentice explores how an ambitious young real-estate mogul became the man we all know as the 45th president of the United States.

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Reviews: Heretic from TIFF 2024

September 23, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 In a sermon from April 2003, Gordon B. Hinckley, then-president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints delivered…

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