posted Sunday, December 12, 2021
When an emotionally fragile young woman takes a job as nanny to two troubled children at a remote summer cottage, she falls in love with the children’s father, while becoming enmeshed in the mystery of their estranged mother – with whom, it turns out, the young woman has her own fraught history. As the summer […]
posted Friday, December 10, 2021
The pandemic has been disruptive to most everyone and everything in some form of another, however there have been many good things to come from it as well. One that I’m particularly happy with is the greater online accessibility to film festival feature films, documentaries, and shorts that were previously limited to only in person […]
posted Tuesday, December 7, 2021
BEYTO is based on the novel by award-winning writer Yusuf Yesilöz, a multicultural story of love and emancipation, full of empathy, sensuality and summer feelings. Beyto is a terrific swimmer and everybody’s cool buddy, but as the young Swiss man with Turkish roots falls in love with his handsome coach Mike, his perfect world seems to fall apart. […]
posted Sunday, December 5, 2021
A Boy Like That tells the story of Harold, a middle-aged Mexican theatre acting coach who travels to New York and finds himself obsessing over a precocious teenage boy named Felix, who he believes is the reincarnation of his first childhood love. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film,Lolita, A Boy Like That explores a taboo […]
posted Friday, December 3, 2021
BENEDETTA is the latest work from madman-genius filmmaker Paul Verhoeven (BASIC INSTINCT, ELLE). Virginie Efira (SIBYL) stars as Benedetta, a historical figure whose extraordinary story was captured in Judith C. Brown’s book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. […]
posted Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Christmas at the Ranchis the story of urban power broker Haley (Laur Allen), who hasn’t been back to her family’s Nashville ranch in years, after being raised there by her grandmother, Meemaw (Lindsay Wagner), after the death of her parents. Summoned by her brother, Charles (Archie Kao), in a last-ditch effort to save their beloved land […]
posted Tuesday, November 30, 2021
The 2021 Whistler Film Festival will once again be presented as a hybrid online and in-person event throughout the month of December. Festival-goers can look forward to 81 inspiring films, including 40 features and 41 shorts curated in nine programmes. The Opening Night film is the Canadian Premiere of THE LOST DAUGHTER, and closing the festival […]
posted Sunday, November 28, 2021
Yes, yet another movie on the 1970s serial killer that still intrigues millions. What is this fascination with serial killers that attracts the attention of viewers? Notorious killer, Ted Bundy (Chad Michael Murray), stalks the highways of gritty 1970s America looking for his next victim. Hunting him are FBI agents Kathleen McChesney and (Roden) Robert […]
posted Thursday, November 25, 2021
Annie and Tom Clark throw a holiday party every year, “Clarkmas.” Over the years, it’s become the go-to holiday event for their ragtag group of friends. When chronically single Natalie and Logan continue to run into each other at the party year after year, they begin to wonder if maybe they’re meant to be together. […]
posted Thursday, November 25, 2021
Klara the Calf is excited to spend her first Christmas on Cattle Hill with her Father, but when they arrive at the farm Klara is disappointed to see he has not attempted to decorate for the holidays. When her father is unexpectedly called away for work, Klara sees it as an opportunity to make Cattle […]
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