Three estranged sisters come home after it is announced that their father has terminal cancer in Home Free. Herb Homur (Art Hindle) and his wife Jill (Jill Frappier), decide to invite their three adult daughters, Rain (Michelle Nolden), Ivy (Tara Spencer-Nairn), and Daisy (Natalie Brown), home for the weekend, despite the sisters being estranged from…
This Review Was Originally Published as Part of Our Coverage of Fantasia 2024 A Toronto librarian’s sheltered existence is cracked open in Darkest Miriam. Miriam Gordon (Britt Lower) is a librarian at the Allen Gardens branch of the Toronto Public Libraries, whose daily routine involves reading to children, answering questions at the info desk, and…
The city of Winnipeg finds itself intersecting with Tehran in Universal Language. Set in an alternate reality, where French and Persian are the dominant cultures in Canada, Matthew (Matthew Rankin) boards a bus to return from Montreal to his hometown of Winnipeg. However, when he tries calling his mother, Matthew is surprised when a strange…
This is an extended rewrite of our original review published as part of our coverage of the 2021 Blood in the Snow Film Festival A foul-mouthed vigilante targets the people who killed his family in Beyond The Chamber of Terror. Nash Caruthers (Timothy Paul McCarthy) is out for revenge against the Ackerman crime family, headed…
A Toronto librarian’s sheltered existence is cracked open in Darkest Miriam. Miriam Gordon (Britt Lower) is a librarian at the Allen Gardens branch of the Toronto Public Libraries, whose daily routine involves reading to children, answering questions at the info desk, and filling out incident reports. However, a mystery arises at the library when Miriam…
The ambient slasher film IN A VIOLENT NATURE, written and directed by Chis Nash, opens in theatres this Friday, May 31, 2024, distributed by IFC Films and Shudder. In a series of Zoom interviews in promotion of the film, I spoke with both producer Peter Kuplowsky and actor Ry Barrett about this much-buzzed-about film. Make sure…
The independent 1970s-set talk show found footage horror film Late Night with the Devil opens in select theatres this weekend. For this extended review, I recruited Jolie Featherstone of Toronto Film Files to join the discussion on the film, as we were both in attendance last summer at the film’s Canadian premiere during Fantasia. Note:…
A family of murderous carnies travel the circuit in Depression-era American in Where the Devil Roams. Maggie (Toby Poser), Seven (John Adams) and Eve (Zelda Adams) are family of travelling performers, barely making due in the dying carnival circuit. The family makes stops along the way looking for food and shelter, often resulting in bloodshed….
A painter has to deal with the fact that he is a werewolf in Blackout. Charley Barrett (Alex Hurt) is a local painter in a small town in upstate New York, who many months ago separated from his ex Sharon (Addison Timlin) and is in frequent public battles with local developer, and Sharon’s father, Jack…
