I borrowed this survey from one of my favourite bloggers Sergio Leone and The Infield Fly Rule. They are always fun to do and as usual there are some questions I couldn’t fill out as accurately as I might want to but it helped with my quarantine isolation idleness. Hope you enjoy. 1) You’re on […]

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Times are hard right now, but one of the things I do to alleviate myself is talk about movies. I know I’m probably one of the lucky ones who isn’t completely alone in isolation as I’m living with my girlfriend who shares the same love of movies as I do. If I get anxious or […]

Read More Five Unofficial Trilogies From Five Filmmakers

Rio Bravo is about as laid back as one can get when watching a western. It fills you with that tricky sweet spot other films would envy by having an even mixture of warm, engaging characters, a tense story, and nice plotted out action, all tightly wound together in the most satisfying way. It’s the […]

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As is the custom, as the new year closes, it’s time to reflect on some of the best films I saw over 2019. I saw quite a few this year, more than I was used to. While there are still some films which I haven’t gotten to such as Transit, Uncut Gems, 1917, or The […]

Read More Top 20 (or 22?) Films of 2019

The clock is winding down on 2019, and as usual, what I like to do in this blog is to highlight some of my favorite things I’ve experienced this past year when it came to film, television, and music. I’m putting off my top ten films for a few more days and I’ll probably be […]

Read More A Few of My favorite Things of 2019

There are very few films brimming with the type of passion and romance as Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The film is many things, and sometimes it is all of them at once, but above all it is a love story between two women, and the everlasting bond they form which fills them with […]

Read More CIFF REVIEW: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

If anyone were to appoint a Queen of cinema, Agnes Varda would probably be at the top of the list. Has there ever been a filmmaker more beloved among her colleagues, or more giving to the art of film? She certainly belongs in the pantheon of masters which is reserved for the likes of Ozu, […]

Read More CIFF REVIEW: Varda By Agnes

Frankie is one of those films where it seems like nothing much happens yet what it concerns itself with are things we sometimes take for granted. It’s a very introspective film concerning life, death, and how it’s difficult to navigate both. This is especially poignant considering it is from the perspective of a group of […]

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Greener Grass is unlike any movie you are bound to see this year, let alone your entire life. This is absurtist humour to the extreme, hinging on outright surrealism which makes for a very unique and out of this world comedy. The film is the brain child of writer/directors Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, both […]

Read More CIFF REVIEW: Greener Grass

Another Child is a well paced South Korean family drama with very strong, relatable performances at its centre. It concerns the reprecussions of an affair between a married man and a single mother and what effect it has on their family, more specifically their two daughters who find out about them before anyone else. The […]

Read More CIFF REVIEW: Another Child