Narratively simple, but thematically complex, Knock at the Cabin is director and co-writer M. Night Syhamalan’s most impressive feat in quite some time.
Sundance 2023 Review: Landscape with Invisible Hand
Captivatingly strange and sometimes depressingly timely, writer-director Cory Finley’s delightfully idiosyncratic sci-fi satire Landscape with Invisible Hand is a sprawling story of a teenage boy trying to navigate a new world that feels far from normal.
Alberta Premium Cask Strength Rye whisky is a bold, spectacular treat
Alberta Premium is one of my favourite Canadian rye whiskies. The golden spirit makes a great cocktail. Nothing prepared me though for Alberta Premium Cask Strength Rye.
Hotel Punta Islita | Eco-conscious luxury in Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s “Pura Vida” is a way of life that means the “pure life” or “simple life,” and that mood and lifestyle is a big part of what made Hotel Punta Islita so special.
Infinity Pool Review | All Expenses Paid
Smartly realized, psychologically fascinating, and brutally violent, Brandon Cronenberg’s trippy thriller Infinity Pool is the writer-director’s best effort yet.
You People Review | Not-so-ordinary People
A staggeringly unfunny, scattershot, punch pulling, and ineffective satire from a lot of talents who should know better, You People squanders an interesting, boundary pushing premise by constantly taking the lowest, easiest road possible.
Sundance 2023 Review: A Thousand and One
Writer-director A.V. Rockwell’s debut feature, A Thousand and One, is a tremendous, sprawling big city epic contained within an intimately realized, highly detailed family drama that unfolds over the course of more than a decade.
Sundance 2023 Review: Kim’s Video
A playful blend of fact and fantasy, David Redman and Ashley Sabin’s documentary Kim’s Video will speak loudly and proudly to cinephiles and physical media enthusiasts.
Shotgun Wedding Review | No Muss, No Fuss
A suitable antidoted to the midwinter blahs, the action-comedy-romance Shotgun Wedding isn’t anything new, but it sure is a lot more fun than one might expect.
When You Finish Saving the World Review | Persistent and Pushy
For his feature length debut behind the camera, When You Finish Saving the World, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg spins an off-kilter, but well reasoned slice of life centred around two people who are more alike than they would ever want to admit.
Will Merrick & Nick Johnson talk Missing, Storm Reid, and filmmaking
Missing stars Storm Reid as June, a daughter looking for her mother who went missing while she was on vacation in Colombia, and there’s a lot more going on than she could have imagined.
Sundance 2023 Review: Shayda
Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari’s outstanding first feature, Shayda, is a work of tremendous intensity, warmth, paranoia, and resilience.
Sundance 2023 Review: Iron Butterflies
Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Liubyi’s artful documentary Iron Butterflies looks back to earlier days in their country’s fight against Russia to pay respect to victims of a large scale atrocity that threaten to be forgotten about amid current battles and tensions.