A Gory Good Time: Our Review of ‘Abigail’

Movies ‐ ‐ April 19, 2024
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A Gory Good Time: Our Review of ‘Abigail’

Vampire films come in all forms, from comedies to horror and even romance.  The creatures themselves come in all shapes and sizes as well, from little children to the grotesque, barely human monster. The titular character of Abigail is one of the former, and as for the film, there is no doubt it’s a horror, […]

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How To Live Off the Land: Our Review of ‘Food, Inc. 2’

Festival Coverage, Movies ‐ ‐ April 19, 2024
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How To Live Off the Land: Our Review of ‘Food, Inc. 2’

Food service workers and farmers are essential workers and, in a perfect world, the world will treat them as such. Food, Inc. 2 shows that North American capitalism ‘perfects’ and tweaks a lot of things except for compensating workers properly. People watching this movie aren’t brand new to this information, as it shows a food […]

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What We Know (So Far) About ‘Inside Out 2’

Blog ‐ ‐ April 18, 2024
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What We Know (So Far) About ‘Inside Out 2’

Ah, Inside Out, the classic 2015 Pixar movie that took us inside the mind of a tween girl named Riley. And what did we find there? A team of hardworking emotions that guided her through life. Starring Amy Poehler as Joy (as in the emotion, not just the woman’s name) and a bevy of talented […]

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A National Canadian Film Day Must See!: Our Review of ‘The Ernie Game’ (1967)

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 17, 2024
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A National Canadian Film Day Must See!: Our Review of ‘The Ernie Game’ (1967)

The Ernie Game (1967) is set in Montreal in the middle of the winter. The film follows Ernie Turner (Alexis Kanner), who gets involved with two different women. One is a seamstress who is his ex-girlfriend Gail (Jackie Burroughs). The other is Donna (Judith Gault) who is a single mother and a copywriter. At the […]

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Altered Innocence: Our Review of ‘Saturday Night at the Baths’ on OVID

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 14, 2024
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Altered Innocence: Our Review of ‘Saturday Night at the Baths’ on OVID

A film with a title like Saturday Night at the Baths will give its audiences certain expectations. Somehow, this film subverts such expectations by depicting a heterosexual sex scene evoking Varda but you know, less good. We can file this film under the ‘product of its time’ microgenre as a queer film with a heterosexual […]

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Home: Our Review of ‘Housekeeping for Beginners’

Theatrical ‐ ‐ April 12, 2024
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Home: Our Review of ‘Housekeeping for Beginners’

Gay people make the best lovers and parents, and the former is more complex than regular straight people love. Ali (Samson Selim) has some one on one time with her boyfriend Toni’s (Vladimir Tintor) ‘landlady’ Dita (Anamaria Marinca). She explains that is her client as a social worker but that doesn’t explain the other people […]

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Jem Cohen: Our Review of ‘Museum Hours’ on OVID

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 11, 2024
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Jem Cohen: Our Review of ‘Museum Hours’ on OVID

Anne (Canadian singer Mary Margaret O’Hara) is a Montrealer in between jobs when she hears a piece of bad news because it turns out, a cousin of hers falls into a coma in Vienna. There’s little to do in between visits to the hospital so she goes to the Kunsthistorisches Museum. There, she meets a […]

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Well-Made Art About a Perennially Important Subject: Our Review of ‘We Were The Lucky Ones’

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 10, 2024
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Well-Made Art About a Perennially Important Subject: Our Review of ‘We Were The Lucky Ones’

Well-made art about The Holocaust will always be worthwhile and important. In a historic event where millions died, there are, of course, millions of valuable stories to tell. Based on the 2017 novel by George Hunter (which was in turn inspired by the author’s family’s experiences in World War II), We Were The Lucky Ones, documents […]

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Sickening?: Our Review of ‘Sugar Highs Season 2′ on OutTV

What's Streaming? ‐ ‐ April 10, 2024
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Sickening?: Our Review of ‘Sugar Highs Season 2′ on OutTV

There are too many series out there depicting the lives of 2SLGBTQIA+ people for me to keep track. On the one hand, many of these series aren’t good so it may not feel like a duty to keep track of them. On the other hand, I, like most queer people, are masochists who will watch […]

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HEY TORONTO!!! WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF ‘ABIGAIL’!!!

Giveaways/Contests, Movies, Theatrical ‐ ‐ April 09, 2024
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HEY TORONTO!!! WIN DOUBLE PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF ‘ABIGAIL’!!!

Kids are the worst… After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, […]

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