Ad Astra

Ad Astra

An astronaut travels to the farthest reaches of the solar system to locate his long-lost father in Ad Astra. In the near future, humanity has set up colonies on the moon and Mars and have sent out missions to find signs of intelligent life in space. Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is an astronaut following…

Borealis

Borealis

A gambling addict goes on the lam with his teenage daughter in Borealis. Jonah (Jonas Chernick) is a Winnipeg man, who owes a nearly $100,000 poker debt to Jewish mafia accountant Tubby Finkelman (Kevin Pollak). Around the same time, Jonah finds out that his teenage daughter Aurora’s (Joey King) eyesight is deteriorating to the point…

Pride

Pride

A group of gay activists finds a common cause with a group of striking Welsh miners in the true story Pride.  Set in 1984, while the UK was still under the rule of Margaret Thatcher, a young gay activist named Mark (Ben Schnetzer) decides to raise money to support striking miners in Wales, forming a…

Altman

Altman

Maverick filmmaker Robert Altman is the subject of this new biographical documentary by director Ron Mann. Told through the words of Altman and his family, Altman chronicles the director’s entire career, from his TV directing work in the 1950s and 1960s, all the way to being the recipient of a lifetime achievement Academy Award a…

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

One year after jointly winning the 74th annual Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) go on a Victor’s Tour of the districts of Panem, where Katniss has become a symbol for a slowly brewing rebellion against the Capital.  While Katniss is disturbed by the increasingly violent behaviour of the “Peacekeepers,”…

The Job

The Job

For my final film of Hot Docs, I saw this French documentary that filmed the recruitment process for an insurance company.  Ten job seekers come in for the job, not even being told what it is, and they go through a recruitment process that I can best describe as both shocking and enthralling. To call…