Prepubescent school children get turned into blood-thirsty zombies in the horror-comedy Cooties. Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood) is an aspiring novelist, who has recently returned to his hometown of Ft. Chicken, Illinois, where is gets a job to substitute at the local elementary school. It is there he is reunited with his old crush Lucy McCormick (Alison Pill), while…
In this follow-up to their 2010 documentary The Clean Bin Project, Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story follows filmmakers Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin on a six month challenge to live entirely on food waste. One third of all food produced is not consumed, with much of it being thrown away, despite still being…
This month saw the release of, the latest film by Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel, which I saw last week. As such, it seemed fitting that I make my blindspot selection this month the only film of Anderson’s that I had yet to see. Fantastic Mr. Fox is based on the book by Roald…
The latest film from director Bruce McDonald focuses on Henry Andreas (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), a man who has to care for his infant son by himself, while his wife Alyssa (Sarah Allen) is in prison for sleeping with an underaged teenager named Colin Nesmith (Dylan Authors). Being the husband of a convicted pedophile is a hard…
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…
These days it is not too uncommon to go on the subway in Toronto and see a poster about animal rights. Animal rights has always been touchy subject, since many people have different opinions on it. Some people are against animal cruelty, but still eat meat, while others heavily endorse a vegan lifestyle. One of…
In California Solo, Robert Carlyle plays Lachlan MacAldonich, the former guitarist of a somewhat successful Britpop band. MacAldonich has long since given up music and is quite haunted by the tragic death of his older brother, who was the band’s lead singer. He currently lives a meagre existence working on a farm by day, while…
Well, I am back in Canada and for my first film back I decided to see what can already be considered a Canadian success story (by the fact that it is a rare example of a Canadian film with an American distributor). Splice is a film by Vincenzo Natali, who is probably best known for…
