Rust

Rust

A teenage boy convicted of murder goes on the run with his outlaw grandfather in Rust. In 1882, in Wyoming Territory, Lucas Hollister (Patrick Scott McDermott) is an orphaned 13-year-old struggling to survive on his family farm with his younger brother Jacob (Easton Malcolm). One morning, while chasing a wolf, Lucas accidentally kills the father…

Framing John DeLorean

Framing John DeLorean

The story of John DeLorean is told in a very meta fashion in Framing John DeLorean. Featuring a combination of documentary and a fictionalized narrative, John DeLorean (Alec Baldwin) was a auto engineer who hit it big at General Motors, when he helped to construct the Pontiac GTO. Living a playboy lifestyle, DeLorean married top…

A Star is Born

A Star is Born

A successful musician helps lead a young woman to stardom, while his own career begins a downward spiral, in A Star is Born. Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) is a successful country rock musician, who constantly plays sold out show, yet offstage is secretly struggling with alcoholism, much to the frustration of his older brother and manager Bobby…

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

A black police officer infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in BlacKkKlansman. In 1972 Colorado Springs, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) becomes the first black man to become a police officer at the Colorado Springs Police Department. At first regulated to the records room, Ron eventually gets himself reassigned to the intelligence division. It is there that Ron spontaneously answers a…

The Crescent

The Crescent

A woman and her young son experience strange occurrences at an seaside house in The Crescent. Following the death of her husband, Beth (Danika Vandersteen) with her toddler son Lowen (Woodrow Graves) to her mother’s seaside cottage at Silver Crescent Beach. Beth becomes acquainted with some of the locals, including seemingly friendly old man Joseph (Terrance…

Live from New York!

Live from New York!

The history of Saturday Night Live is told in Live from New York!.  In 1975, novice producer Lorne Michaels created a late-night sketch comedy series on NBC described as a mix between 60 Minutes and Monty Python.  Over the course of the next four decades, Saturday Night Live would evolve to become a cultural institution,…

Still Alice

Still Alice

Julianne Moore plays a 50 year old woman suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease in the drama Still Alice.  Alice Howland (Moore) is an esteemed linguistics professor at Columbia University, who has recently celebrated her 50th birthday.  Alice begins to forget small details about her life and decides to get tested by a neurologist, where…

Cutaway

Cutaway

Last night saw the Toronto premiere of Cutaway, the new short film by Kazik Radwanski (Tower, Princess Margaret Blvd).  Cutaway is the story of a momentous development of a man’s life, told entirely through close-ups of his hands.  Those familiar with Radwanski’s previous films would know that he has the tendency of shooting quite close…

A Dangerous Game

A Dangerous Game

In this follow-up to his 2011 documentary You’ve Been Trumped, Scottish director Anthony Baxter gives an update on the fight against Donald Trump‘s golf course in Aberdeenshire, while also exploring the larger issue of the wealthy 1% building golf courses on the world’s most fragile ecosystems.  Particular attention is given to the historic Croatian town…

Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine

Woody Allen returns with a new dramedy about a woman trying to recover from a crisis in her life.  Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) is a former New York socialite, who underwent a nervous breakdown after losing everything, due to her wealthy husband Hal (Alec Baldwin) getting arrested for fraud.  In an attempt to rebuilt her life,…