Unfocused, alternately fawning and insulting, and not getting any help from an obstinate, stand-offish central subject, the documentary Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist is a thoroughly underwhelming and unnecessary looks at …
Last week, before Arkells took over Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton for their gigantic #ArkellsRally–the largest concert they have ever put on–Air Miles invited me to meet with frontman Max …
The brooding Canadian thriller The Unseen offers a unique, subtextual take on an “invisible man” storyline, but it’s an idea that would work much better as a series than a …
A muddled, confusing, and cut-rate to the point of embarrassing fantasy thriller, Darken is the kind of low budget Canadian effort that was clearly conceived with a high degree of …
The dumb-dumb, ho-hum, and moderately fun sci-fi action thriller Upgrade could stand to be either 50% crazier or 50% smarter.
A sequel to Denis Villeneuve and Taylor Sheridan’s intense and surprising 2015 success Sicario remains unnecessary, but Italian filmmaker Stefano Sollima’s follow-up (and second film in a now planned trilogy), …
With last year’s Oscar nominated short film Heroin(e), documentarian Elaine McMillion Sheldon looked at women working on the front lines of West Virginia’s rampant opioid drug crisis. Her latest feature, …