Spy x Family Code: White is a movie set within the television series, Spy x Family. The series follows master spy Twilight, who must disguise himself as the psychiatrist Loid Forger and build a mock family in order to investigate political leader Donovan Desmond. However, his mock family actually have unique traits of their own….
”WE EXIST!” In the 1990s, the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago became a symbol of urban decay and danger. Yet for some it was the only home they knew. In We Grown Now, written and directed by Minhal Baig, we see this world through the eyes of two young boys who live there. For them…
People living with mental illness, may often feel isolated. In On the Adamant, from documentarian Nicolas Philibert, we see a refuge in the middle of Paris that attracts a people and provides a place of acceptance, dignity, and perhaps healing. The Adamant is a facility that is moored on the Seine and is part of…
John Krasinski is Jack Ryan. Not literally, of course. (Although I guess I don’t know what he does in his spare time.) But, when the man best known as ‘Jim’ from The Office was cast as the iconic character, I don’t know if anyone truly believed that he’d be up for the challenge. After all, at the role of…
Can a song save your life? The Greatest Hits hopes so. In The Greatest Hits, Harriet (Lucy Boynton) is still devastated after the tragic death of her boyfriend, Max (David Corenswet). But when she realizes that her favourite songs transport her back in time, she sets out on a mission to make things right. As she travels between…
Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. But which America? That’s the key question in Alex Garland’s Civil War, a film that may be set in the near future but feels all too real in the present. Set in the near future, Civil War depicts America as a nation divided within between two factions….
If you’ve ever questioned whether the concept of ‘Microaggressions’ was real or you find yourself asking why can’t racialized people move on from racism, Café Daughter will humble those curiosities with heartbreak and an accurate portrayal of how White Supremacy dismantles families. Inspired by the life of Doctor Lillian Eve Quan Dyck, Café Daughter follows…
Campton Manor is a high-concept, low budget thriller mystery from director, Cat Hotstick. The film stars Shawn Robert’s as Teddy, a journalist and novelist who has made his claim to fame by being able to communicate and see the dead. Through the stories of the deceased, he has made a name for himself and now…
In his directorial debut, Dev Patel stars as Kid, a man making a living losing fights in an underground fight club under the alias ‘Monkey Man’. Kid suffers trauma from his childhood, having watched his mother die at the hands of a police chief, Rana Singh. Now an adult, he plots his revenge on the…
In many ways, it feels unfair (and even, sexist) to compare Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ Girls State to their previous effort, Boys State. (After all, the pairing of these documentaries hardly creates a ‘franchise’.) Quite frankly, the two films are entirely different stories, created within entirely different worlds. But even Girls State can’t escape the world of toxic masculinity….
