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Reviews: Viking from VIFF 2022

October 5, 2022

Final Rating: 4/5 Viking is a new science fiction satire from Québecois writer and director Stéphane Lafleur. The film is about how the first…

Reviews: Brother from VIFF 2022

October 3, 2022

Final Rating: 5/5 Brother opens with one of the most electrifying scenes ever put to film. Sure the scene literally takes place at a…

Reviews: Black Ice from VIFF 2022

October 2, 2022

Final Rating: 3/5 To the outside world, watching hockey feels like watching a white person’s sport. Teams rarely have more than one or two…

Reviews: Bones of Crows from VIFF 2022

September 30, 2022

Final Rating: 4/5 Marie Celements is back at the Vancouver International Film Festival, her latest film Bones of Crows opened the 41st edition of…

Reviews: ROSIE from VIFF 2022

September 29, 2022

Final Rating: 2.5/5 ROSIE is a coming of age story, that while one of the main characters is a child, is more about adults…

Reviews: Compulsus from Fantasia Festival 2022

August 9, 2022

Final Rating: 3/5 Compulsus takes the rage that many women have towards abusers, the patriarchy and institutions that protect aggressors and attacks it with…

Reviews: Topology of Sirens from Fantasia Festival 2022

July 25, 2022

Final Rating: 4/5 Topology of Sirens is an experimental film about experimental music. It is a cross between slow burning transcendental cinema and a…

Reviews: Baby Assassins from Fantasia Festival 2022

July 22, 2022

Final Rating: 4/5 With the release of John Wick back in 2014, there has been an interest in building worlds around the mysterious lives…

Reviews: Polaris from Fantasia Festival 2022

July 15, 2022

Final Rating: 4/5 This year’s selection for the opening night film at the 2022 edition of Montreal’s Fantasia Festival is the Canadian movie Polaris….

Reviews: CHEE$E from SXSW 2022

March 18, 2022

Final Rating: 3.5/5 The Trinbagonian filmmaker Damian Marcano has previously made one feature film that showcased his homeland back in 2013 but has since…