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Reviews: Time from VIFF 2021

October 6, 2021

Final Rating: 2.5/5 In the debut film from Hong Kong director Ricky Ko, we get a look how the elderly are treated after having…

Reviews: All My Puny Sorrows From VIFF 2021

October 4, 2021

Final Rating: 4/5 Elfreida and Yolanda are two sisters who are carrying a lot of weight on their shoulders. Yoli is in her mid-thirties,…

Reviews: Wildhood from Cinefest Sudbury 2021

September 26, 2021

Final Rating: 4/5 Teenaged Lincoln, played by Phillip Lewitski, is angry and confused about a lot of things in his life. He lives with…

Reviews: Shadowtown for Cinefest Sudbury 2021

September 22, 2021

Final Rating: 2/5 Canada and Iceland have teamed up to combine their cinematic powers to create a new thriller about a deceased grandmother, a…

Reviews: Drunk Bus for Cinefest Sudbury 2021

September 20, 2021

Final Rating: 2/5 Drunk Bus is a film about a young conflicted man named Michael played by Charlie Tahan, best known as Wyatt Langmore…

Reviews: The Middle Man for TIFF 2021

September 12, 2021

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Norwegian writer and director Bent Hamer, brings his Nordic sensibilities to this dark “comedy”. I put comedy in quotations because while…

Reviews: Kicking Blood for TIFF 2021

September 11, 2021

Final Rating: 1/5 Much like the title suggests, the act of kicking something means to do without. Here we get two sides of addiction…

Reviews: The Fandom for Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2021

August 22, 2021

Final Rating: 2.5/5 The history of furries and their fans is not something that is often discussed. Most of what is assumed to be…

Reviews: Workhorse Queen for Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2021

August 20, 2021

Final Rating: 2/5 Edward Popil is the real name of Mrs. Kasha Davis, a drag queen who most people know from appearing on season…

Reviews: Raw! Uncut! Video! for Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2021

August 19, 2021

Warning this film contains graphic sexual content. Final Rating: 3/5 In the mid-80’s two enterprising gay men, Jack Fritcher and Mark Hemry started a…