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Reviews: Glasshouse for Fantasia Fest 2021

August 18, 2021

Final Rating: 4/5 South Africian writer and director Kelsey Egan has crafted a tense and confounding thriller that will have you questioning your own…

Reviews: Tombs of the Blind Dead for Fantasia Fest 2021

August 12, 2021

Final Rating: 3/5 Not only is Fantasia Fest home to the most exciting new genre releases that get World and Canadian premieres, they also…

Reviews: Art Kabuki for Fantasia Fest 2021

August 4, 2021

Final Rating: 3/5 The art of kabuki is a style of theatrical performance, consisting of singing, dancing and music playing that originated in Japan…

Reviews: With Drawn Arms for Hot Docs 2021

May 7, 2021

Final Rating: 1.5/5 In 1968 at the Olympic games in Mexico City, American track athlete Tommie Smith won the gold medal in the 200m…

Reviews: Hysterical for Hot Docs 2021

May 6, 2021

Final Rating: 2/5 Hysterical tracks the rise in mainstream acceptance of female comedians, from the boundary breaking funny ladies in the 1950’s up to…

Review: Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm for Hot Docs 2021

May 5, 2021

Final Rating: 2/5 In the early 1960’s two Welsh brothers named Kinglsey and Charles Ward bought a reel to reel tape recorder and made…

Reviews: We Are The Thousand for Hot Docs 2021

May 2, 2021

Final Rating: 3/5 Back in 2015, a group of ambitious people in the small Italian town of Cesena, population just under one hundred thousand…

Reviews: Set! for Hot Docs 2021

May 1, 2021

Final Rating: 3/5 Set! Is the brand new mockumentary from legendary writer and director Christopher Guest. It is a spiritual sequel to the 2000…

Reviews: Come Back Anytime for Hot Docs 2021

April 30, 2021

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Director John Daschbach takes us on an inside look at Masamoto “Master” Ueda’s ramen shop in Tokyo, as we are shown…

Reviews: Potato Dreams of America for SXSW 2021

March 22, 2021

Original review found on rachelkh.com. Potato Dreams of America is the tale of two movies: life for sexually confused little Potato (Hersh Powers) growing up…