Like Connor Roy of Succession, Boots Riley, creator of I'm a Virgo, has always been interested in politics. But unlike the fictional Roy, Riley has always put it into action through his work. For example, after the Oakland High School funding was cut in the 1980s, he...
Making Time focuses on multiple people who are involved in the world of watches and time. As experts in horology, designers and watchmakers, they are the people who preserve the watch as an art form and share how their personal life stories are tied to watches....
Unfortunately, a lot of this film's ambitions were too high. Likely hoping to have an indie-action phenomenon on their hands, Escalation fills the niche of being an 'Asian-American in the cop world', similar to Jackie Chan in Rush Hour. (To be clear though, Jackie...
Past Lives is the directorial debut of Korean-Canadian writer Celine Song that follows an autobiographical story of love, fate and how our life choices can take us away from what we perceive as a more dramatic destiny. The film follows Nora Moon and Hae Sung, two...
Jane stars Madeline Petsch (Riverdale) and Chloe Bailey (Swarm) as two friends who attempt to deal with the overwhelming stress of school and their shared grief that threatens to undermine all their present achievements. For Olivia (Petsch), this comes to fruition...
The Artifice Girl is another notable entry into the pantheon of ever-evolving, low budget sci-fi that squares itself at the centre of a discourse around the creation of A.I. as these technologies become a greater part of our lives. In Artifice, Gareth (Franklin Ritch)...
Is this a rare mid-budget movie or just a low budget blockbuster? Based on the internationally-beloved anime, Knights of the Zodiac follows Seiya, a young kid who tries to make a living doing fights in the streets. Quickly, his life changes completely when he...
A deeply Canadian tale that comes from one of the most ambitious Canadians to never leave Waterloo, Ontario. Blackberry tells the story of the former corporate giant’s rise and fall as they pioneered the way people interact through their phones and created the sparks...
In the wake of the pandemic, one of America's most influential food writers, Ruth Reichel, starts to interview her many contacts in the food world, taking a look at the volatile nature of farming in America and how COVID only exacerbated the problems. There are many...