A young opera director’s personal trauma transfers over into her production of Salome in Seven Veils. Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) is a young theatre director tasked by the Canadian Opera Company with remounting a production of Richard Strauss’ biblical opera Salome, previously produced by her recently deceased mentor Charles. As Jeanine deals with her recent separation…
Two indigenous individuals find love as apocalyptic events rage outside a Nothern Ontario bar in Stellar. She (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) and He (Braeden Clarke) enter a bar shortly before various natural disasters happen outside in their Northern Ontario town. Accompanied by the lone Bartender (Rossif Sutherland) and various eclectic visitors, She and He develop a connection…
This Review Originally Published As Part of Our Coverage of Fantasia 2021 The life of the high priest of a coven is thrown into turmoil when his past catches up with him in King Knight. Thorn (Matthew Gray Gubler) is the leader of a coven of witches along with his life partner Willow (Angela Sarafyan). Thorn’s…
The life of the high priest of a coven is thrown into turmoil when his past catches up with him in King Knight. Thorn (Matthew Gray Gubler) is the leader of a coven of witches along with his life partner Willow (Angela Sarafyan). Thorn’s non-conformist, pagan lifestyle is thrown into chaos when Willow finds an e-mail…
UPDATE: Since I originally wrote this review, it has come to my attention that director Morgan Neville utilized A.I. technology to recreate Anthony Bourdain‘s voice for the film’s narration. This, of course, raises some serious ethical concerns and it does recontextualize the documentary somewhat. However, my original thoughts on the film remain unedited below. The…
The relationship between six guide dogs on their owners are explored in Buddy. Even though guide dogs are a necessary need of their owners, the connection that develops between the two are often deeper than any other relationship in their lives. Filmmaker Heddy Honigmann follows six guide dogs and what what they mean to their…
A vacationing family finds themselves terrorized by their doppelgangers in Us. Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) is a woman still affected by traumatic experience she went through as a child, where she came to face to face with someone who looked just like her. With her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and kids Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph)…
Stephen King’s novel receives new adaptation in IT. In the summer of 1988, the small town of Derry is experiencing an epidemic of missing children cases. One of these missing children was Georgie ( Jackson Robert Scott), the younger brother of Bill (Jaeden Lieberher). Together with the “Losers Club” of Richie (Finn Wolfhard), Ben (Jeremy Ray…
A physicist has created a machine capable of time travel in the science fiction mind bender Synchronicity. Jim Beale (Chad McKnight) and his team of Chuck (AJ Bowen) and Matty (Scott Poythress) are preparing to perform a wormhole experiment funded by Klaus Meisner (Michael Ironside). Worried that he is being manipulated by a mysterious woman named…
