This interview first ran in October of 2021. Bruce LaBruce may very well be Canada’s last punk artist. An iconoclastic filmmaker, photographer, and writer, he just can’t stop creating. Defiantly sexual, and often political, LaBruce’s filmography has found longstanding acclaim…
Caribbean African Canadian Social Services (CAFCAN), a local Scarborough community organization, will be hosting over 550 members of the Black community from across the Greater Toronto Area for a special pre-screening of the blockbuster sequel movie Black Panther 2: Wakanda…
If there’s one good thing about Halloween (I mean, there are lots of good things, but let’s pretend there’s only one), it’s binging horror movies til the zombies come home. I’ve seen way too many scary movies and I’m always…
One of the details that The Fabelmens gets just right is how family and home shapes one’s journey from adolescence and beyond. The movie is about the Fabelmans, computer engineer Burt and former concert pianist Mitzi (Paul Dano and Michelle…
Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke walked the red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall for the TIFF premiere of their film Raymond & Ray, in which they play long-estranged half-brothers who reunite to bury their father. By all accounts, director Rodrigo…
Typically, the two basic approaches to obesity in cinema are to regard it as tragic or comic. In director Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, he has somehow avoided both. And unfortunately, therein lays its fatal flaw. Here’s a movie with the…
Legendary director Steven Spielberg along with his cast, including Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, and Paul Dano, walked the red carpet ahead of the The Fabelmans world premiere during TIFF 2022. The coming-of-age picture tells the story of a young man…
One of the most interesting aspects about Holy Spider is the film’s atypical construction, which amplifies suspense even while simultaneously revealing everything one would want to know. It’s a thriller based on inspired true events in the early 2000s –…
Who was David Bowie? Glam rock star? Prophetic philosopher? World traveller? Painter? A south London lad who never looked back? Director Brett Morgen’s captivating new documentary, named Moonage Daydream, aims its sights on those questions with a multi-faceted deep-dive on…
Justin Kurzel, one of Australia’s leading filmmakers, has delivered a handful of memorable stories to the screen ranging from Macbeth to The True History Of The Kelly Gang. His latest, Nitram, captures a dark moment in modern Australian history. It’s…