posted Friday, April 30, 2021
Shoplifters of the World is a film inspired by true events, set over the course of one night in the life of four friends that are reeling from the sudden dissolution of iconic British band The Smiths. The storyline is based around the band’s break up in 1987, when a bunch of longtime friends and […]
posted Friday, April 30, 2021
How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential and criminally overlooked all at the same time? A band that has been in the background of almost every art form across the last 50 years, Sparks is your favourite band’s favourite band, and soon to be yours too. THE SPARKS BROTHERS features commentary from […]
posted Friday, April 30, 2021
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, is based around the death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene, that sends her daughter on a journey across the world and through her mother’s archives to reconcile their fraught relationship. The film opens at Toronto’s Hot Docs virtual cinema on April 29, 2021. Some people […]
posted Friday, April 30, 2021
Crimes of the Future has been announced as a new film project written and directed by Canada’s David Cronenberg (A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, Crash), and produced by Robert Lantos (Eastern Promises, eXistenZ, Crash), in their fourth collaboration. It’s Cronenberg’s first original screenplay since eXistenZ in 1999. Crimes of the Future takes a deep dive into the […]
posted Thursday, April 29, 2021
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2021 is being presented online from April 29-May 9 at hotdocs.ca, which will also be available across Canada for the first time. From 2,300 film submissions, this year’s slate presents 219 films from 66 countries in 12 programs. With such a wide spectrum to choose from, there’s something for […]
posted Thursday, April 29, 2021
Bruce McArthur was many things; friend, grandfather, mall Santa, landscaper, and a ruthless serial killer who buried body parts in the yards of his posh clientele. This is the true story of the race to catch Toronto’s most prolific serial killer. Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur unravels the twists and turns of the shocking […]
posted Wednesday, April 28, 2021
In The Sleepless, Sophia can’t sleep. Neither can Zach. Both have gotten far too used to it. When the pair meet each other randomly at 3AM, in the only spot nearby open for coffee, sparks don’t necessarily fly. With a gentle nudge from bodega owner Samir, and with nothing better to do, Zach and Sophia […]
posted Wednesday, April 28, 2021
John Gianvito’s experimental documentary Her Socialist Smile discusses Helen Keller’s full-fledged embrace of socialist ideas. This is an important contribution to the knowledge we currently have of Helen, a deaf-blind pioneer (and client of The Miracle Worker, so to speak). However, the format this film takes is sometimes unwieldy and staggering in its complexity. […]
posted Tuesday, April 27, 2021
We live in a golden age of superhero cinema. What once was regarded as action figures smashing against each other while chasing the silly little concept of “Truth, Justice and looking damn fine in Tights,” is now indisputably a box office and cultural juggernaut. Yet, even as we as a culture can now accept a […]
posted Friday, April 23, 2021
Bloodthirsty is about indie singer Grey (Lauren Beatty), who writes catchy songs, has been a vegan since age 6, and is inconsolable at the roadkill death of a rabbit. But she has recurring dreams of eating raw meat, and experiences waking hallucinations of turning into an animal. The psychiatric meds prescribed by Dr. Swan (Michael […]
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