While Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are on the path to becoming Toronto legends, their new movie Nirvanna the Band the Show serves as one of the best love letters to the city, to friendship, and to pop culture nerds everywhere that I've ever seen. This excellent film...
While director Matt Johnson and co-writer, co-star Jay McCarrol have never really left Canada during their filmmaking collaborations, this new movie feels like a true homecoming for two creators who may have only just begun to make their presence known worldwide....
Kokuho is a decades-long epic revolving around the world of Kabuki actors, a highly respected art form in which male actors take on the roles of female characters. The story begins with 15-year-old Kikuho (Ryo Yoshizawa), the son of a Yakuza (crime family) leader, who...
In a loving restoration that pays tribute to the film’s late director and the importance of its central figure, The Long Way Home: Remastered and Expanded takes us back to a singular and unique period. The documentary follows Soviet underground rock artist Boris...
Full disclosure: most of my commentary on this show does not come from firsthand experience, but rather from secondhand tales. Canada Shore continues the spirit of the iconic Jersey Shore, transplanting the formula to a town that even some Canadians may not have heard...
Charlie (Owen Wilson) is a loyal golden retriever to Danny, a shy boy who feels most connected to him. Charlie and Danny have done everything together, growing older side by side. As Charlie reaches his silver years, something unexpected happens: he finds himself...
There are great movies every year and, depending on who you are, some years have more great films than others. For me personally, this year around 40 of the 100 films that I saw I would recommend to different kinds of people. All of those 40 deserve a shoutout but I...
Cannes regular (though not with this film) Jim Jarmusch tackles a three-part anthology film full of nuance and marked by a particular cadence. The characters have walls between them, and Jarmusch lets those walls become the drama. While all three parts share similar...
The Choral is very much an ensemble piece where we don't really see the journey of one person but rather, becomes a collective experience. It starts in a small town where the local Choral is putting on their new show in the midst of World War I. Even as auditions wrap...