Two sisters try to cope on their own after an apocalyptic event in Into the Forest. Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood) are two sisters who live in an isolated house by a forest with their father Robert (Callum Keith Rennie). Suddenly one evening, the power unexpectedly goes out, with reports saying that…
A young Norwegian girl tries to make a life for herself in this debut feature film by Andrew Huculiak of the Vancouver-based rock band We Are The City. Dagny (Dagny Backer Johnsen) is a young Norwegian woman, who is trying to escape her small town life. As she adapts to this independent lifestyle, Dagny has…
This evening marks the beginning of the TIFF Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival. Throughout the course of the next ten days, the ten best Canadian films of the year will screen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Since I’ve seen four of the ten films screening, I thought that I would give my own personal recommendations…
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…
Last night saw the announcement of the line-up of TIFF’s annual celebration of the best in Canadian cinema. The Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival will run from January 2 to 11 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. This year features quite an interesting selection, many of which I’m only finding out for the first time. Here…
Set during a time in Canadian history when aboriginal kids were routinely sent to residential schools, Rhymes for Young Ghouls tells the story of a young girl named Aila (Kawennahere Devery Jacobs). Aila’s life was shaken by tragedy at a very young age when her mother accidently ran over her younger brother, and subsequently committed…
From visual artists Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman, comes this very trippy and surreal road trip across Canada. Based on a real cross-country trip by Scriver and Ehman, Asphalt Watches follows the duo of Bucktooth Cloud and Skeleton Hat as they travel cross-country, with the help of an out-dated train hopping manual. While hitchhiking, the…
Playing as part of the Canada’s Top Ten line-up, as well as opening this week for its regular release, Gabrielle is a coming-of-age story about a young woman’s desire to live a normal life, despite her mental disability. Gabrielle (Gabrielle Marion-Rivard) is a young women with William’s Syndrome, who sings in a choir with other…
From director Xavier Dolan (Laurence Anyways), comes this darkly humorous psychological thriller. After the death of his lover Guy, Tom (Dolan) travels from Montreal to the countryside and stays at the farm of Guy’s family, while attending the funeral. Guy’s mother Agathe (Lise Roy) never knew that her son was a homosexual and his psychotic…
Jake Gyllenhaal faces off with himself in this new doppelganger thriller from director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies), which is an adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago’s novel The Double. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a Toronto-based history professor, who lives a somewhat mundane and routine life with his girlfriend Mary (Mélanie Laurent). Based on the recommendation…
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