At its dark heart, it offers yet another occasion for audiences, and critics, to say with conviction: “Nobody but McKellan ...

The film is split in two, with a second half that is more about the relationship between Spike and his ma, Isla (Jodie Comer) ...

I once again showed up on CBC Radio in Nova Scotia to talk movies. The slate included the new Danny Boyle and Alex Garland ...

Nic’s the nameless, titular surfer, a divorced father looking to buy his former family home on the hillside above a gorgeous ...

If you’ve seen the trailer for this picture, you might’ve thought to yourself, “Hey, the grizzled veteran mentoring the young ...

There’s still business to be done — he has a plan to swindle investors on a slave-labour project in Phoenicia, so has a ...

It felt appropriate on the weekend of the Canadian Screen Awards to dig into the dark, dirty past of the Canadian movie business. Highpoint was made during the much-maligned tax shelter years in ...

Preparing for this new adaptation of the famed novel written by Françoise Sagan when she was a teenager, I went back to the 1958 Preminger version. (The source material remains unread by me. ) It’s an ...

Directed by Sean Byrne | Written by Nick Lepard | 98 min | 1/2. For us cinephiles, it’s impossible to miss the fact that this summer it’s been 50 years since Steven Spielberg’s Jaws changed Hollywood ...

A supernatural mystery/break-up drama from New Brunswick isn’t something we get a chance to see every day. This first feature from filmmaker Martinez got into TIFF, and it’s easy to see why. There’s ...

A version of this review first appeared on FITI in September 2024 as part of coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. While it’s technically a science fiction, it’s really a biopic of ...