Teenage runaways hitchhike across Nova Scotia in Weirdos. Kit (Dylan Authors) is a 15 year old boy who lives with his father (Allan Hawco) and grandmother (Cathy Jones) in a small town in 1976 Nova Scotia. Kit decides that he wants to go to Sydney and live with his estranged mother (Molly Parker). Accompanied by…
A young aspiring photographer has an affair with an older woman in Carol. Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is an aspiring photographer in her twenties working in a department store. One day she meets Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), a middle-aged housewife, who is in the beginnings of a bitter divorce with her husband Harge (Kyle Chandler). Therese and…
A city in Poland prepare for the fulfilment of the Mayan doomsday prophesy in End of the World. One night in a city in Poland, a late night radio host makes the topic of end of the world, as prophesized by the Mayans. At the same time, an emergency operator receive calls from people, even…
Canada’s perception by the rest of the world is broken down in Being Canadian. Born in Calgary, Robert Cohen moved to Los Angeles to pursue a comedy writing career. When his co-workers found out about his heritage, he found that they knew little about Canada, other than the stereotypes of beer, maple syrup, and hockey. …
British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon return as fictional versions of themselves in director Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip to Italy. After the success of their previous restaurant-going road trip, Steve and Rob are asked to go on a second trip, this time around Italy. The two travel to many locations around the country, including…
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…
Red Lights is director Rodrigo Cortés’ follow-up to his 2010 film Buried. The film follows psychologist Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant Tom (Cillian Murphy) as they venture out to debunk psychics using their scientific explanations. A blind psychic named Simon Silver (Robert De Niro) decides to come out of retirement and all signs to see to point…
Neil Young Journeys is the third Neil Young concert film directed by Jonathan Demme, which follows 2006’s Neil Young: Heart of Gold and 2009’s Neil Young Truck Show. The bulk of the film consists of footage from a May 2011 concert at Massey Hall in Toronto. While some of Young’s hits are featured, the bulk of the…
This film has a very simple story – the end of the world is imminent and two strangers go on a roadtrip to reunite with their loved ones before the Apocalypse. The apocalypse is not something that immediately comes to mind when you are creating the plot for a romantic comedy. Indeed, the film retains a dark overtone throughout…
I’ve been a fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost since Shaun of the Dead, so I was happy to see them back together for Paul (even though they are without usual director Edgar Wright). The film is a sci-fi comedy about two British geeks, who pick-up an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) that…
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