The kooky and creepy family goes on a cross-country vacation in The Addams Family 2. Wednesday Addams (Chloë Grace Moretz) wins big her school’s science fair, receiving praise from its holographic benefactor Cyrus Strange (Bill Hader), but she is embarrassed by the presence of her parents Gomez (Oscar Isaac) and Morticia (Charlize Theron) and her […]
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A retired James Bond is pulled back into action by a new global threat in No Time to Die. James Bond (Daniel Craig) has left MI6 for a life in Italy with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), though a sudden attack by the criminal organization SPECTRE, somehow run from behind bars by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz),
A weird, anxious, and depressed teenager gains notoriety after he’s mistaken as the best friend of a classmate who commits suicide in Dear Evan Hansen. Evan Hansen (Ben Platt) is a lonely teenager, whose mother Heidi (Julianne Moore) is never home due to work. Even is assigned by his psychiatrist to write letters to himself to
On a planet occupied entirely by women, a mother and daughter are sent to assassinate a dangerous criminal in After Blue (Dirty Paradise). Far into the future, humanity has left Earth for the planet After Blue, with the male population dying off early on. Roxy (Paula Luna), nicknamed Toxic by the village girls, is a lonely
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Female members of an evangelist Christian church violently try to convert other women to their ways in Medusa. Mari (Mariana Oliveira) and her best friend Michele (Lara Tremouroux) are members of an evangelist Christian temple in Brazil, who sing as part of “Treasures of the Lord” choir, while at night don white masks and stalk sinful
The life and career of the famous underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau is revisited in Becoming Cousteau. Jacques-Yves Cousteau began his fascination with the underwater world going freediving with his friends Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas in the 1940s French riviera, with the three helping to develop a breathing regulator that helped to negate the need for
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One of the special events of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival was a screening of a “Surprise New Film” by director Steven Soderbergh. As many predicted beforehand, this “new” film ended up being a re-edited version of Soderbergh’s 1991 sophomore film Kafka, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and is a film
Mr. Kneff (30th Anniversary Kafka Re-edit)
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A young man with Species Identity Disorder is sent to a clinic with controversial methods in Wolf. Jacob (George MacKay) is a teenager who believes himself to be a wolf, who is admitted to a clinic meant to cure those with similar species dysphoria. While Dr. Angelie (Eileen Walsh) uses very optimistic methods in her therapy
A Métis woman returns home after a multi-year absence in Ste. Anne. Following a four-year absence, Renee (Rhayne Vermette) unexpectedly returns to her young daughter Athene (Isabelle d’Eschambault), who has been raised up until this point by Renee’s brother Modeste (Jack Theis) and his wife Elenore (Valerie Marion). This sudden return causes tension in this
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A group of mercenaries end taking refuge in a mysterious region of Senegal in Saloum. Guinea-Bissau’s coup d’état of 2003, the mercenary group Bangui’s Hyenas consisting of Chaka (Yann Gael), Rafa (Roger Sallah), and Minuit (Mentor Ba), extract cartel member Felix (Renaud Farah) and his cargo of gold and drugs, with the group boarding a plane
