Brutal, intense, and elegantly composed French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature Revenge breathes energy and depth into a dubious sub-genre of thriller that’s been on life support since the 1980s.
We caught up with Canadian filmmaker Laura Marie Wayne and her best friend, musician and documentary subject Scott Jones about their collaboration on Love, Scott, a film about Scott’s road …
We catch up with Canadian filmmaker Jean-Simon Chartier about his latest documentary, Playing Hard, an in-depth, behind-the-scenes, warts-and-all look at the production of a blockbuster sized video game, which premieres …
We talk to horse trainer and former rodeo rider Brady Jandreau, the star and real life inspiration for filmmaker Chloé Zhao’s critically acclaimed drama, The Rider, opening in Toronto and …
Hot Docs kicks off its 25th year today (and runs through May 6), and here are 15 films showing during the first few days of the festival that are worth …
We catch up with human rights activist and sexual assault survivor Mandi Gray, subject of the documentary Slut or Nut: The Diary of a Rape Trial, which premieres at Hot …
We talk to Canadian-Nigerian filmmaker Shasha Nakhai about her debut feature documentary Take Light (premiering at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this weekend), which finds her returning to …
We catch up with Canadian filmmaker Michael Sparaga about his latest documentary United We Fan (premiering this weekend at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival), an ode to …
An exceptionally funny and subtly experimental work of snark, cynicism, and sarcasm, director and co-writer Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin somehow finds a way to make the pain and …
A subtly paced, intricately designed, and powerfully moving depiction of loss, confusion, bureaucracy run amok, and guilt, Samuel Maoz’s Israeli drama Foxtrot covers a lot of thematic ground with great …