Reviews: Nightshift – 4K Restoration March 14, 2025 Recently, the Lightbox Film Center, in collaboration with the British Film Institute and Cinenova, restored Nightshift directed by Robina Rose. Continue Reading
Reviews: The Electric State March 14, 2025 Art at its best offers a new perspective, even when the subject of that art is nothing new. There’s simply no heart to The Electric State, and it grows old fast. Continue Reading
Reviews: Can I Get A Witness? March 12, 2025 Final Rating: 3.5/5 Director Ann Marie Fleming’s first feature film in eight years is a soft science fiction film that leaves plenty to chew… Continue Reading
Reviews: Shepherds (Bergers) March 11, 2025 Mathyas, a Montreal ad man, has up and left his life to move to France in the hopes of becoming a shepherd in Provence. Continue Reading
Reviews: The Rule of Jenny Pen March 10, 2025 In some ways James Ashcroft’s The Rule of Jenny Pen holds up a dark, funhouse mirror to recent octogenarian heist film Thelma. Continue Reading
Reviews: Parthenope February 24, 2025 Final Rating: 3/5 Set primarily in director Paolo Sorrentino’s home city of Naples, A24’s Parthenope follows a girl from her birth in 1950 until… Continue Reading
Reviews: Dark Match February 17, 2025 Final Rating: 1.5/5 In Dark Match, directed by Lowell Dean, a wrestling company takes a well-paying gig in a small town but they soon… Continue Reading
Reviews: I’m Still Here February 10, 2025 Final Rating: 4/5 In 1996, Eunice Facciolla Paiva, a Brazilian lawyer and activist, was issued a death certificate for her husband, Rubens Paiva. Rubens,… Continue Reading
Reviews: Universal Language February 6, 2025 Final Rating: 3/5 Ed. note: read out original review of Universal Language by Jeff Bulmer from TIFF 2024. Universal Language, director/star/co-writer Matthew Rankin’s homage… Continue Reading
Reviews: Blue Rodeo: Lost Together February 3, 2025 Final Rating: 3/5 In 2025 the Canadian band Blue Rodeo is celebrating their 40th anniversary and director Dale Heslip was given access to make… Continue Reading
