As an American filmmaker, Jeff Nichols has always been interested in America and its more unexplored parts. In another collaboration with Michael Shannon (but not starring him), Nichols loosely adapts the plotless collection of photos and interviews of Danny Lyon, who is featured in the film and played by Mike Faist. The film is some…
Raising a child can be one of the hardest things to do because they are a reflection of you. This seems to be the anthesis of Ezra directed by Tony Goldwyn as Max (Bobby Canavale), Jenna (Rose Byrne) and Stan (Robert De Niro) all do their best to learn and understand Ezra. Ezra (William A….
Set in 1992 within the Cabrini Green neighbourhood of Chicago, We Grown Now looks at the lives of two young boys, Malik (Blake James Cameron) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez). Their family homes–and legacy–confronts them as their neighbourhood comes under the scare of ever-growing gun violence and the death of innocents. The third feature written…
For those who are not already aware, the reason that the internet is free is because the internet is not the product. You are the product. It’s this awareness that The Click Trap is attempting to spread in its extensive coverage of the online marketing world and how much they are intruding on our browsing…
A harrowing tribute to the human spirit, The Strike covers a side of the prison system that most would disagree with yet has been thriving for multiple decades. (In fact, in many cases, the system has kept the same individual in solitary confinements for that amount of time.) As the war aganist drugs escalated, even…
National Geographic is behind a film that many will call a spiritual successor to Free Solo as it features people taking on an extreme sport that can result in their death. Personally, I found the documentary to be more akin to Goodfellas, where the thrills and excitement of their lifestyle is the main character of…
A TELUS original, based in the west coast, Curl Power follows the 4K girls, a high school team of Curlers whose aspirations to make the curling nationals is only matched by their efforts to figure out who they are and how to navigate life as they head towards the end of high school. The film…
Filmed over the course of seven years, Daughters of Genghis is a study of a woman named Gerel, a formidable neo-nationalist who guides a women-led movement to protect her homeland of Mongolia and the ideals that she believes are tied to the country. One of her main concerns is the position of women in Mongolia,…
Black Box Diaries takes us back to 2015 when Shiori Ito, a young woman with great ambitions and hopes for a career in journalism, runs into a story in the worst way possible as she attempts to empower herself by exposing the sexual assault that was committed against her. Facing the scrutiny of the public,…
Just google the term ‘sextortion’ and you will quickly see the tragedies that are associated with it. You will also see the young people who are exploited by it. Here’s a story of a woman who decided to document the process of bringing herself back to power. My Sextortion Diary works as mise-en-abyme (or ‘story…
