Striking the balance between harsh vibes and exceptional cinema, I’m pleased to announce our next program at the Roxy: The Film Stage has teamed with Chapo Trap House‘s Movie Mindset for Fidelio, a one-week, four-film program on the 1%’s malevolent influence,...
When your sitting down to watch Lowell Dean's Dark Match at Fantasia, on July 21st, you'll be treated to a short film, Hell Is A Teenage Girl, from Vancouver-based filmmaker and producer Stephen Sawchuk. (Every Halloween in the) small...
After the first sextet of titles released back in the middle of June, the Toronto International Film Festival are throwing us another fivesome of film items that come stamped with the World Premiere status stamp with We Live in Time...
It might take the entirety of Donald Trump’s imminent second term for David Lynch’s current run of music videos to equal another feature film, but each has been a gift of its own. Following last month’s “Sublime Eternal Love“––the first...
What if, like, food could talk, man? And what if they said swears and had orgies? Those sentences, I'm sure, billowed out of the presumably hotboxed pitch room of 2016's "Sausage Party," the too-raunchy-by-half adult animated comedy that featured rubbery food...
Filmmakers have dreamed about visiting the moon from the earliest days if cinema. French stage magician-turned-director George Méliès was the father of cinema special effects. His silent 1902 film “A Trip to the Moon” is still unsurpassed in whimsical charm,...
It is increasingly rare to find films in love with actors’ faces, and even rarer to find directors who know how to capture the way light contours around lines and eyes to tell the story of the character. Greg Kwedar’s...
""I can't act and I can't compose and I can't do visual effects, so I guess that's why I'm producing." That was what Jon Landau said when he accepted the Best Picture Oscar in 1997 for producing James Cameron's "Titanic." He made...
Funny. We know we'd come across the Argentine horror flick MAR.IAa recently. Not because of the porn, wierdos, but because we've covered films from its co-directors Gabriel Crieco and Nicanor Loreti over the years. With another reminder from its sales...