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“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” ushers in a New Age of Heroes

posted Tuesday, April 27, 2021

by: in Celebrity, Entertaining, Film, Streaming Online, Television, Uncategorized

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 […]

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Bloodthirsty – female driven horror film, with lesbian lovers, hallucinations, and music

posted Friday, April 23, 2021

by: in Film, Lesbian, Queer, Streaming Online

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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Hot Docs Review/Interview – Only I Can Hear – April 29 to May 9, 2021

posted Thursday, April 22, 2021

by: in Film, Streaming Online

Only I Can Hear is a wonderful documentary that represents a lesser-known aspect of Deaf culture – CODAs. A CODA is a Child Of Deaf Adults. Here is the synopsis of the film: Nyla wants to be Deaf. But as she turns 15, she finds herself inextricably pulled towards the hearing world, and away from […]

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I Am Syd Stone – an actor navigates his dwindling career, while questioning his sexuality

posted Wednesday, April 21, 2021

by: in Film, Queer

I Am Syd Stone is a six-part series written and directed by Denis Theriault and produced by Gharrett Patrick Paon. The series, which sprung from the 2014 Iris Prize-nominated short film of the same name, had its world premiere at Toronto’s Inside-Out LGBT Film Festival. It’s based on Theriault’s own experiences circumventing his sexuality within the film […]

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National Film Board of Canada presents Queer and Indigenous Flicks at Hot Docs

posted Friday, April 9, 2021

by: in Film, Queer, Toronto

The 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is presenting four world premieres of National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries that explore powerful themes of identity and human rights by Indigenous, LGBTQ2+ and women film creators. This year’s festival will be available online to all Canadians from April 29 to May 9. Two new NFB feature-length films are premiering in […]

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Moffie – a tale of secrets within the South African Apartheid battles of the 1980s

posted Thursday, April 8, 2021

by: in Film, Queer

MOFFIE explores the life of a closeted young boy serving his mandatory military service during Apartheid in 1980s South Africa.  To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over […]

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Shiva Baby – growing up often comes with complications

posted Friday, April 2, 2021

by: in Film

Shiva Baby is about near college graduate, Danielle, gets paid by her sugar daddy and rushes to meet her neurotic parents at a family shiva. Upon arrival, she is accosted by various estranged relatives about her appearance and lack of post-grad plans, while her confident ex-girlfriend, Maya, is applauded by everyone for getting into law […]

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15th annual Canadian Film Festival – screens April 1 to 18, 2021

posted Wednesday, March 31, 2021

by: in Film

The Canadian Film Fest is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to supporting Canadian independent films and cultivating emerging and established filmmaking talent. Film-loving audiences come to enjoy a diverse selection of 100% Canadian film screenings (features & shorts) and filmmakers flock to the CFF’s various industry events to take advantage of essential networking opportunities. […]

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To Whom It May Concern – complications in committing suicide

posted Friday, March 26, 2021

by: in Film

Anna, (Dawn Olivieri), is 30, a bartender, beautiful, sexy and emotionally dysfunctional. Tired of life and planning to commit suicide, she begins making her own funeral arrangements. When Anna meets Sam (Wilmer Valderrame), the boyfriend of her neighbor, something sparks between them. The two quickly fall for each other. Just as Sam gently forces Anna […]

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“Juliet” focuses on a transgender teenager who battles for a female lead in a play

posted Friday, March 26, 2021

by: in Film, Trans

  Ira Storozhenko’s live-action short film Juliet focuses on a transgender teenager who hopes to play Juliet in a Romeo & Juliet school play. This powerful short which was inspired by the director and producers’ experience’s with gender discrimination has already screened at 7 film festivals including the Oscar-qualifying AFI Fest 2020 and Indie Short Fest where […]

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