There is something to be said for documetaries that bring out the audience’s imagination. Director Jay Cheel accomplishes this and more in his film How To Make A Time Machine, which premiered at Hot Docs this past May.
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Director Taika Waititi brings us another fun film in Hunt For The Wilderpeople, an enjoyably adventure that offers up many laugh-out-loud moments intermingled with great bonding times. READ MORE
Ingrid Veninger, “Canada’s DIY queen of indie filmmaking” is back with her 5th feature He Hated Pigeons and once again she has created another deliberately intimate film, this time a remarkably well-measured tale of love and loss. Her film opened the 14th annual Female Eye Film Festival (FeFF) this past Tuesday. The screening featured a live score performance by the incomparable Jane Siberry; an unforgettable screening… READ MORE
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Artscapes
The film follows famed Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides, who has spent his life documenting death, tragedy, and violence. At the age of 9, he acquired his first camera. At that time, he became curiously fixated on capturing crime scenes and accidents. This curiosity led him to a role as an unpaid assistant at a Mexican tabloid when he was 13. Being a fan of American and Mexican cinema, the visuals on-screen shaped his way of seeing the world around him. READ MORE
The story begins like this: “Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction”. READ MORE
Opening The Blood In The Snow Canadian Film Festival (BITS), April Mullen’s Farhope Tower does not disappoint. but get more than they bargained for when they come up against the most powerful spirits they have every faced. READ MORE
Fredrik Gertten‘s latest documentary Bikes vs Cars arrives to Toronto this weekend for an exclusive engagement at the Bloor Cinema. The film aims to look into and investigate this daily ‘global drama’ in traffic around the world.
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The documentary Some Kind of Love takes us into the lives of several family members; their fractured relationships, and for some their disintegration due to illness. READ MORE
In Andrew Nackman‘s feature directorial debut, Fourth Man Out, we meet Adam (Evan Todd), a mechanic who decides to come out to his three best friends on 24th birthday. His “bros” (Parker Young, Jon Gabrus and Glee’s Chord Overstreet), however, have some difficulties in embracing Adam’s sexuality at first. READ MORE
From the first few minutes of Le Samouraï, Melville places us in an austere, dark, shadowy world filled with foreboding, suspense, and drama.
This crime film classic introduces us to killer-for-hire Jef Costello, played by Alain Delon, in a quiet yet evocative manner. Costello has been hired to kill a Paris club owner. He executes this methodically starting with his setting up two solid alibis, to his cold and detached manner in telling the man he’s there to kill him. What Costello did not expect, however, was the club’s Piano player, a very attractive Caty Rosier, to catch him minutes after the act.
