Spotlight

For his first feature film, Dust Bunny, television veteran Bryan Fuller attacks the screen like a man possessed. A visual phantasmagoria of styles, tones, colours, sounds, and focused absurdism, Dust …

In Jamal Burger and Jukan Tateisi’s documentary Still Single (which opens in Toronto at TIFF Lightbox this weekend), legendary, visionary, and still relatively young culinary artist Chef Masaki Saito opens …

With the film Meadowlarks (in Canadian cinemas this weekend), filmmaker Tasha Hubbard makes the leap from documentary to drama by tapping into something familiar. Meadowlarks, co-written by Hubbard and novelist/playwright …

Although films already exist about the historical events that transpired in writer-director James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg, this film examines the trials that forever shaped war crime prosecutions from a different perspective. …

While relentlessly stylish and boasting an impressive leading performance from Colin Farrell, Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player disappointingly illustrates the pitfalls of adapting a rich, complex novel into …

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a landmark career achievement. I don’t mean that in the sense that it’s the best film in del Toro’s impressive catalogue, but in the sense …

John Candy: I Like Me is a heartfelt, loving tribute to an actor who never got their proper due. A legendary comedic (and dramatic) talent who passed away far too …

The Smashing Machine is a smartly made movie that doesn’t attempt to intellectualize a sport where people pummel each other for money. Instead of looking at melodramatic moral breakdowns, devastating …

Series creator and co-star Mae Martin’s unnerving, etherial, and quite often funny thriller Wayward takes a lot of familiar elements and turns them into something refreshing, renewing, and uniquely heartfelt …

No one does disaster and tragedy quite like Paul Greengrass, and while The Lost Bus isn’t the filmmaker’s best work, it certainly reaffirms his status as the king of depicting …