Directed by Idris Elba, Dust to Dreams has more heart than narrative precision, which is exactly what I would hope for in such a complex story. The story begins with Millicent (Nse Ikpe-Etim), the owner of a vibrant nightclub in Lagos. She is ill and reaching the end...
In Honey Bunch, directors Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli take viewers on one hell of a messy and mind-bending ride. The film follows married couple, Diana (Grace Glowicki) and Homer (Ben Petrie), on what seems to be a medical retreat to heal Diana’s leg...
In one of the most important films of the year, Annemarie Jacir offers a raw and heartbreaking portrait of the early foundations of the illegal state of Israel. For those reading who do not know, no Jewish government ever existed in Palestine before 1948. However,...
Truth North, directed by Michèle Stephenson, confronts audiences with a historical reality that is often rejected by non-black Canadians in Canada. It is easy to argue that systemic racism is not and has never been a problem in this country because it has never been...
Ashish is lost. Depressed, apathetic and harbouring ocean levels of resentment, his mind is haunted by the anxiety of selling his first novel- white publishers don’t want a non-exotic Indian story. His spirit is disturbed by the aftermath of his parent's divorce. He...
Jane Luk isn’t here to make you comfortable. In The Institute, MGM+’s harrowing new adaptation of the popular Stephen King novel, she plays Maureen, a woman whose courage is buried under years of hardened silence and fear. You’ll find her mopping floors, moving like a...
Stepping into the shoes of a telepathic child trapped in a sinister institution isn’t something most kids have to imagine—but for Viggo Hanvelt, it was all in a day’s work. As Avery, the powerful but gentle telepath who grows into a reluctant leader in The Institute,...
There’s a specific kind of chaos that erupts when the internet finds a new TV crush. Suddenly, your brick-by-brick TikTok feed is a flurry of fan edits with users dedicating their entire identities to a romantic headcannon, at least for the season of their favourite...
Neil Sedaka once sang that, ‘Breaking up is hard to do." Against the unsettling, yet cheerful melody, he laments on separating from his partner while pleading with her to stay with him and give it another try. The grounds for their separation are unclear, but his...