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Reviews: Heaven

November 20, 2025

Heaven, the directorial debut of Diane Keaton, is a documentary asking everyday people their thoughts on the afterlife that originally came out in 1987.

Reviews: Nuremberg

November 5, 2025

James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg recreates the famous trials of high ranking Nazi official Hermann Göring and the men who tried him.

Reviews: The Things You Kill

October 30, 2025

Final Rating: 4/5 Family secrets bubble to the surface as an English teacher in Turkey wrestles with the untimely passing of his mother. Alireza…

Reviews: Blue Moon

October 24, 2025

Blue Moon is the story of Lorenz Hart, the former writing partner of Richard Rodgers on the night that his former partner opens the show Oklahoma!

Reviews: Sirât from Genre Gems 2025

October 22, 2025

In Sirât, a man and his son search the Moroccan desert through nomadic raves in order to find his missing daughter in this sprawling film.

Reviews: Kiss of the Spider Woman

October 17, 2025

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a remake of a musical where two men sharing a prison cell and one of them tells the story of his favourite film.

Reviews: A Welcome Distraction from VIFF 2025

October 15, 2025

Final Rating: 4/5 It’s easy to relate and to understand immediately what the title of Brian Daniel Johnson’s debut film A Welcome Distraction could…

Reviews: Ju Dou – Restoration

October 6, 2025

Director Zhang Yumou’s seminal 1990 film Ju Dou starring Gong Li as an abused wife who starts a relationship with her older husbands nephew, has received a restoration.

Reviews: The Baltimorons

September 30, 2025

The Baltimorons is a new dramedy about one man who gets emergency dental surgery on Christmas Eve as he comes to terms with the highs and lows of his life.

Reviews: 2025 TIFF Midnight Madness Round Up Part 1

September 26, 2025

Midnight Madness plays the best in genre films during the Toronto International Film Festival. We saw almost every film in the program and wrote about them.