During a published 2025 conversation with Barry Jenkins, Charles Burnett takes a moment to acknowledge the L.A. Rebellion. This cinematic movement, which he helped spearhead,…
A secret screening is always exciting. As part of Muscle Distribution’s recent Musclefest, a weekend of queer and transgressive film screenings at The Roxy Cinema…
In this dispatch: Trash Mountain, Idda…
The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival seems intent on making lightning strike twice. Last year, Obsession went from a Midnight Madness premiere to one of…
Director Michael Dowse is no stranger to the rough-edged antihero, but perhaps he’s a bit less in touch with the management of thematic conciliation when…
Volcano as woman, women as volcanoes. This simile describes the driving force behind Idda, Italian director Irene Dionisio’s deeply affecting memory film about a symbiotic…
The new film from Australian horror director Nick Kozakis, Kick On is the sort of movie designed to play TIFF’s Midnight Madness and excite a…
In August 1974, during a speech commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Korea’s liberation at the end of World War II, the first lady of Korea,…
Toronto-based filmmaker Yuula Benivolski has made several impressive short films, the most recent of which, why I never became a driver, played several experimental film…
The novelist Salman Rushdie never wanted to become the world’s symbol for free speech against oppressive regimes. He just wanted to be a writer, and…
There’s no shortage of films that tackle generational differences, particularly parental figures and their often limiting expectations for their children. From Zac Efron in Disney…
All you need before attending Muscle Distribution’s Musclefest, a four-night screening series at the Roxy Cinema in mid-September, is a general belief that we don’t…
There’s a certain irony to Padraic McKinley’s new film being called The Weight. Set during the Great Depression and starring Ethan Hawke as one of…
Ah Pulp: national treasures, indie disco floor-fillers, perennial smartarse answer to “Blur vs Oasis.” And in frontman Jarvis Cocker, they had the gawky underdog turned…
The magic is gone. That much is impossible to ignore. Practical Magic 2 is little more than reheated nostalgia bait, though Warner Bros. would like…
Powwow People, the new documentary from Ho-Chunk / Pechanga director Sky Hopinka is somewhat more straightforward than the experimental filmmaking that first gained Hopinka notoriety.…
The title of the world’s oldest living person changes hands with inevitable frequency, with long-standing centenarians perpetually fading away to make room for the next…
In this dispatch: Josephine, The Violinist…
In the backseat of her parents’ car, an eight-year-old girl (Mason Reeves) searches the word “rape” on her mother’s phone. We only see her face…
If anyone watches The Violinist, there is a good chance this has something to do with the spotlight thrown upon it by its being awarded…
The pressure of representation weighs heavily on Abinash Bikram Shah’s Elephants in the Fog. With its accessible arthouse style and the sobriety of its subject…