Film & TV

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Cult MTL is a daily web and monthly print publication focusing on Montreal music, arts, culture and city life.

Along with interviewing local and visiting artists, promoters and entrepreneurs, we feature analysis and criticism by our editorial staff and crew of columnists and freelancers, compile comprehensive event listings, curate a daily To-Do List and run the annual Best of MTL readers poll.

Editorial Staff

Lorraine Carpenter
- Editor in chief, music editor
- lorraine.carpenter@cultmontreal.com
Alex Rose
- Film & TV editor
- alex.rose@cultmontreal.com
Nora Rosenthal
- Arts & culture editor
Rob Jennings
- Editorial Assistant
Clay Sandhu
- Contributing editor (food)

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Contributors

Amy German, Brandon Kaufman, Cindy Lopez, Claude Boileau, Darcy MacDonald, Dave Jaffer, Elena Razlogova, Erik Leijon, Greg Vodden, Johnson Cummins, Justine Smith, Mira Silvers, Mr. Wavvy, Paul Serralheiro, Roxane Hudon, Ryan Alexander Diduck, Sarah Deshaies

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Our publication is distributed across Montreal on the first Thursday of every month.

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Blinded by the Light has faith in the Boss

August 14, 2019 by Alex Rose

Gurinder Chadha’s adaptation of Sarfraz Manzoor’s autobiographical book about his love of Bruce Springsteen is corny, obvious… and extremely effective.

Growing up at the end of the world

August 10, 2019 by Alex Rose

Casey Affleck’s directorial debut Light of My Life – about a world where most women have been killed by a plague – covers familiar territory in a confident way.

Jeune Juliette is a teen movie about a specifically universal experience

August 9, 2019 by Alex Rose

Characters shine in Anne Émond’s fourth feature, a winsome and cynicism-free teen comedy.

What the hell happened with The Kitchen?

August 8, 2019 by Alex Rose

This promising all-star gangster movie fell so flat.

Hobbs & Shaw seems like a movie made by an algorithm

August 2, 2019 by Alex Rose

The latest entry in the Fast and the Furious franchise is a buddy-action film with issues.

recent articles

Best of MTL 2019: Media

May 7, 2019 by CultMTL

Old and new media collide in this category, collecting your favourite radio and TV hosts, magazines, Twitter and Instagram accounts & more.

Vice proves why you shouldn’t make a movie about someone you hate

December 24, 2018 by Alex Rose

Adam McKay (The Big Short) made a quasi-comedy about Dick Cheney.

Peter Hedges and Courtney B. Vance on working with Julia Roberts and depicting the crisis of our time

December 22, 2018 by Alex Rose

Ben Is Back takes on the issue that’s tearing American families apart.

Welcome to Marwen delves into a troubled man’s deep fantasy world

December 21, 2018 by Alex Rose

Steve Carell stars in Robert Zemeckis’s ambitious but flawed adaptation of a strange but true story.

Film

Luce spins a story of race and privilege into a tense thriller

August 16, 2019 by Alex Rose

Director Julius Onah on careful casting and using the cinematic language of horror to craft a complex and compelling film.

Richard Linklater’s new movie never finds itself

August 15, 2019 by Alex Rose

Cate Blanchett stars in Where’d You Go, Bernadette, a peek into the weird world of privileged eccentrics.

TV

Quebec film & TV star Éric Bruneau on working in English on a new CBC show

January 8, 2019 by Alex Rose

Bruneau plays a mysterious Afghanistan veteran alongside Serinda Swan in Coroner.

Letterkenny is comedy for the thinking hick

March 1, 2018 by Erik Leijon

We spoke to series creator and costar Jared Keeso ahead of this weekend’s live show in Montreal.

:made in mtl

Unfortunately for all of us, Ivana Trump’s For Love Alone was shot in Montreal

May 17, 2019 by Alex Rose

This awful ’90s TV movie depicts a heavily fictionalized version of Ivana’s life, featuring a stand-in for the American weasel she married and divorced.

The mere existence of Montreal-shot thriller Abandon defies logic

February 27, 2019 by Alex Rose

Katie Holmes and a stack of talented character actors star in this film by Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan.