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Reviews: Whatever It Takes from Hot Docs 2024

May 1, 2024

Whatever It Takes, directed by Jenny Carchman, is a gripping true-crime documentary centred around the 2019 stalking scandal of Ina and David Steiner.

Reviews: Polaris

April 29, 2024

As our climate is ever evolving, and we wonder what the future holds, Polaris director Kirsten Carthew delivers a frost laden Mad Max of the north.

Reviews: Red Rooms

April 15, 2024

Red Rooms is a new techno-thriller from Pascal Plante, who’s previous film helped launch him into the conversation of one of the best new Canadian directors.

Reviews: BlackBerry

April 12, 2024

Blackberry, is the latest movie you might call “product dramas”. This emerging genre has tales of the rise of classic consumer goods, and very often their fall.

Reviews: Evil Does Not Exist from IFFO 2024

April 8, 2024

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s latest outing, Evil Does Not Exist, tackles an environmental focused drama teeming with much deeper resonance.

Reviews: Chuck Chuck Baby from IFFO 2024

March 29, 2024

Set in Wales, Chuck Chuck Baby, tells the story of Helen, who lives with her ex-husband, his new girlfriend and their baby, as she tends to his dying mother.

Reviews: Loch Ness: They Created a Monster from IFFO 2024

March 26, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 “If you build it, they will come…” Few things capture our imagination like the possibility of discovery, in particular that of…

Reviews: The Peasants

March 25, 2024

Based on the Nobel Prize for Literature 1904 novel The Peasants, the 2023 adaptation by duo DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman is in short, a masterpiece of a film.

Reviews: To Kill a Tiger

March 8, 2024

To Kill a Tiger, follows the story of Ranjit as he takes on the Indian legal system to seek justice for his 13 year old daughter after she was gang raped.

Reviews: Hundreds of Beavers

February 16, 2024

Hundreds of Beavers wears its inspirations on its sleeve. An irreverent, black-and-white, live-action cartoon, it’s a survivalist western by way of Looney Tunes.