Film Friday: your arthouse roundup
Iranian-by-way-of-Tokyo drama Like Someone In Love and Oscar-nominated Norwegian sea adventure Kon-Tiki are subjected to our rigorous critical gaze.
James Cromwell is still awesome
The longtime Hollywood character actor talks about appearing in a small Canadian film, Michael McGown’s touching story Still Mine.
EyeSteelFilm wants your bums in seats
Local production company EyeSteelFilm has recently branched out into theatrical distribution. EyeSteel’s Damien Detcheberry talks to us about the mission and methods behind this quixotic quest.
Sci-fi punk oddity gets the Criterion treatment
Alex Cox’s 1984 cult classic Repo Man has just been released by Criterion in one of their typically sweet packages.
Wrong does surrealism right
Wrong, the latest from French filmmaker and musician Quentin Dupieux, is one of the most ridiculous films I’ve seen in recent memory—in a good way.
A good old-fashioned scary story
Canadian director Shawn Linden’s second feature The Good Lie is a clever mash of suspense, horror, comedy and drama. It’s a film that’s overtly about storytelling, but goes about it in a decidedly genre-friendly fashion.
Weekend film roundup: All the whimsy you can handle
The latest films from Michel Gondry and the Miyazaki clan are fun, strange stories.
Terrence Malick’s experimental soap opera
Terrence Malick’s latest, To the Wonder, is unlikely to win him any new fans, but displays his audacious originality.
François Ozon’s voyeuristic voyage
Dans la maison, the latest from French writer/director François Ozon, is a story about storytelling that’s equal parts touching, disturbing and absurd, with a solid cast and an unpredictable plot.
My awkward Canadian film adventure
Director Sean Garrity and writer/star Jonas Chernick make an effort at Canadian sex comedy with My Awkard Sexual Adventure, occasioning a tormented take on English-Canadian cinema from our critic.