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A prospective client dies in a car crash, which might be a murder, leading her first to a couple of contacts in the local cop ...
We rarely see this kind of thing these days — a movie with a lock-tight plot, compelling characters, and a detailed and vivid ...
ICYMI, here's a link to my recent appearance on CBC Radio talking about a few new movies in cinemas and available online.
A sweet stretch of romance and redemption in the third act goes some way to warming the more flinty elements that went before ...
It’s easy to see why some in the audience might think the new horror/drama by Zach Cregger ( Barbarian ), about a group of ...
Can you believe it’s been almost 30 years since Happy Gilmore came out? It remains Adam Sandler’s most beloved film — I mean, besides Punch Drunk Love — and he’s finally come up with a sequel.
At the top of the month, when Shore Club season was kicking into gear, Andre Pettipas made a triumphant return to the fabled room. He didn’t come alone, as he was supporting the talented emcee K-OS.
I watched this movie at the Toronto International Film Festival 2023, when it was called North Star, and revisited it recently a second time. The fact it’s coming out almost two years after its ...
A potent, difficult drama about the ways sexual assault can ruin your life and linger for years. The writer/director, Eva Victor, is also the lead actor — where that kind of move could be dubbed a ...
flawintheiris Carsten Knox is a massive, cheese-eating nerd. In the day he works as a journalist in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At night he stares out at the rain-slick streets, watches movies, and writes ...
One of my biggest gripes about horror movies as a genre is how few genuinely fresh ideas are produced within it. Filmmakers are inordinately satisfied with regurgitating the same jump-scares, the same ...