Trickster?follows Jared (Joel Oulette), an Indigenous teen who lives his life from one disaster to the next. Whether he?s dealing with his wild-child mother (Crystle Lightning) or supporting his father (Craig Lauzon), Jared struggles to get through the day, especially financially. When his part-time job selling drugs comes to an end, he feels lost within…
In?The Father, Sir Anthony Hopkins plays Anthony, an elderly but wealthy man who cannot admit that he can no longer care for himself. When his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) informs him that she intends on moving to Paris, she attempts to bring in a home care nurse, Laura (Imogen Poots). As his condition deteriorates, Anthony…
How best to describe I?m Thinking of Ending Things? The easy answer is that it?s a Charlie Kaufman film. (He both writes and directs.) His scripts (cf. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Synecdoche, New York) are always mind games (not only for the audience, but for the characters as…
No stranger to American whistle-blower stories, Director Sonia Kennebeck (National Bird) tackles the unique and complicated life of Matt DeHart, formerly of the Air National Guard. The Indiana home where Matt DeHart lived with his parents was raided based on the suspicion of child pornography. Assuming that a child pornography charge was just a ploy…
Stuff is a funny thing. I imagine the majority of us can sit down on any given day, look around and ask, ?how did I get all this stuff?? I mean, at least that happens to me actually multiple times a day. I have antique heirlooms, random pieces of clay ?art? that I have accumulated…
? ?I am strong. I am invincible. I am woman.? ? Those words were part of what became the anthem of the Second Wave Women?s Movement in the 1970s. Unjoo Moon makes it the cornerstone of her Helen Reddy biopic, I Am Woman. The film is in part a celebration of her music set within…
While all sports have their passionate diehards, Jack Mulhern knows there?s something special about hockey fans. Whether their home team has just won the Stanley Cup or if they?ve gone over 50 years without winning it all (sigh, sorry Leafs), hockey seems to connect deeply with the soul of its fans in ways that other…
Disney is at it again. Bringing the heroine Mulan to life, Disney continues their streak of producing live-action versions of their animated classics.? As with other recent live-action Disney films (Aladdin and Mary Poppins Returns come to mind), Mulan is filled with stunning colours and visuals.? It offers impressive cinematography, including great camera tricks during…
The political world is filled with men and women who both seek power for the sake of serve and help others or, more negatively, out of a need to self-validate by winning. Pending on the candidate?s goals and intentions, they can prove themselves to be agents for positive change or simply succumb to the immaturity…
As a comedy veteran himself, Clement knows what?s funny. Having worked on such hilarious projects as What We Do in the Shadows, MIB:3 and, of course, Flight of the Concords, Clement argues that the best comedies of today are those that commit to their worldviews. ?At the moment, I feel like [great comedy is] believing what you say,” he…
