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Reviews: SATURDAY NIGHT from TIFF 2024

September 8, 2024

Final Rating: 4.5/5 Saturday Night Live is an institution of television. It has been on the air for almost fifty years, aired almost 1000…

Reviews: Seeds from TIFF 2024

September 7, 2024

Final Rating: 3/5 Starring, written, and directed by Canadian indigenous actor Kaniehtiio Horn, Seeds is a promising, if messy, debut. Horn plays Ziggy, a…

Reviews: Darkest Miriam from Fantasia Festival 2024

August 16, 2024

Final Rating: 3/5 Working in a quiet downtown branch of the Toronto Public Library, librarian Miriam (Britt Lower) finds purpose observing the regulars and…

Reviews: Electrophilia from Fantasia Festival 2024

August 2, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 What happens when you survive a traumatic unexpected event? Do you gather yourself together and overcome any new fears you might…

Reviews: Cuckoo from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 31, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 A famous aspect of the cuckoo bird is brood parasitism, which is found in all members of the Cuculidae family. Brood…

Reviews: Infinite Summer from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 30, 2024

Final Rating: 2.5/5 At times, Miguel Llansó’s Infinite Summer is a character study, a conspiracy thriller, a wistful teen comedy, and a buddy cop…

Reviews: Kizumonogatari – Koyomi Vamp from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 29, 2024

Final Rating: 2/5 One day, while walking through the subway, Koyomi Araragi (Hiroshi Kamiya) encounters a vampire at the end of her life. Despite…

Reviews: The Silent Planet from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 25, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 Sometime in the near future aliens have come to live on earth because for whatever reason, their home planet is now…

Reviews: Tribeca Round Up – Part 1

July 3, 2024

With this year’s Tribeca film festival now wrapped here are the first pair of feature reviews, New Wave and Bitterroot along with three short films.

Reviews: The Fix

July 1, 2024

The Fix is a fun action romp that has just enough body horror to keep you on the edge of your seat. It’s a throwback to films from the 80’s and 90’s.