A man hoping to cure himself of his sexist mindset hires a nanny eager to please in Babysitter. While at an MMA fight with friends, a drunken Cédric (Patrick Hivon) goes viral after he embraces reporter Chantal Tremblay (Eve Duranceau) on live television. After a scandalous newspaper article written by Cédric’s brother Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), […]
Babysitter – Canadian Film Fest 2023
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An emotional mother-son drama.
Riceboy Sleeps – TIFF Canada’s Top Ten 2022
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The bond between two brothers in 1990s Scarborough is examined in Brother. Michael (Lamar Johnson) grew up with his older brother Francis (Aaron Pierre) looking after him, while their mother Ruth (Marsha Stephanie Blake) worked late nights. In 2001, Michael lives on his own with a mentally broken Ruth when he is reunited with his
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A man becomes part of a behavioural research teaming observing and replicating the first crewed mission to Mars in Viking. David (Steve Laplante) is a man chosen by the Viking Society to take part in a simulation replicating the first human-crewed Mars mission currently in progress. David becomes the Earth-bound surrogate for crew member Thomas
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David Cronenberg makes his return to body horror in Crimes of the Future. Sometime in the future, humanity has evolved to the point where they can no longer feel pain, which has resulted in body mutilations becoming a perverse form of performance art. Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) is one such performance artist, who regularly performs
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The Canadian Screen Awards was presented last night with the big winner of the night being Xavier Dolan‘s It’s Only the End of the World, which won six awards, including Best Picture and Director. The runner-up was Race, which won four awards, including Best Actor for Stephan James. The awards also solidified the fact that Tatiana
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Tonight is the night of the 2017 edition of the Canadian Screen Awards. Because the nominees were announced so close to the Oscars announcement, I never got to writing about them. However, I have decided that I will combine my nominee refresh and predictions into one post, to help get ready for tonight’s awards. Best
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Last night saw the presentation of the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards and it is probably no surprise to anyone that Room ended up being the big winner of the night, taking away 9 of its 11 nominations, including Best Picture and Achievement in Directing for Irish director Lenny Abrahamson. Probably, the biggest surprise among Room‘s wins
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Well, we have arrived at the date of the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards. The broadcast gala will be airing on CBC television at 8:00PM EST and I will be tuning in to see which Canadian films will win the big awards. I should note that I updated my nominee refresh post from last week to
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Tomorrow marks the beginning of Canadian Screen Week, which will consist of multiple events leading up to Canadian Screen Awards broadcast gala in a week’s time. This will be my first year providing full coverage of the Canadian Screen Awards and I will make various posts throughout the week. I thought that I would start
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