“Presence” is a tale about the dead that was directed by a versatile film maker Steven Soderbergh, and takes place entirely in this beautiful restored over 100 years old house located in suburbia, and even before the characters even have a chance to move in, it is occupied already. The gazing through the camera directly […]
In the distant future, aliens have come down to earth cause for some reason their mother planet is no longer habitable. That is a storyline that belongs to District 9, not the first page of The Silent Planet, a movie by Jeffrey St. Jules which is receiving its World Premiere at Fantasia. While that is
This year’s Fantasia International Film Festival guests were able to take part in the world premier screening of The Dead Thing film. The film is helmed by Elric Kane (Kissy Kissy, Murmurs) who is the co-writer with Webb Wilcoxen (The Frontier). Apart from the men, it features a woman named Alex, who is addicted to
Being a follower of the Christian pop duo for KING & COUNTRY, or even having a shred of interest in their type of music, seems to help appreciating the drama called “Unsung Hero.” For the rest of the viewers, it can be viewed as a dull-minded feel-good story of nobleness achieving victory against great odds,
As impassive and melancholic as a chrysanthemum, the adolescent Zac suddenly puts on Lacy Ziegler’s wedding attire in the middle of summer camp and begs her mother (Janet Nicholson) to pick her up early. The urgency was palpable. “I’m going to kill myself…,” she states matter-of-factly. “I said I’m going to kill myself until you
Do you remember the part in Ti West’s MaXXXine when Elizabeth Debicki as Elizabeth Bender goes around saying how she made a ‘b-movie with a’ ideas? That is very likely the furthest we will get at this point and time is probably what Mangy Llanso’s Infinite Summer, which had its world premiere at the Fantasia
You can feel what’s going on in “Starve Acre” as soon as you press play. You know how when you are watching that film, they make it intolerably humid and wet? A characteristic of the film the more visible as the secrets get literally unburied as the film unfolds. Daniel Kokotajlo’s second feature is a
Oh Canada: In a more contemplative and restrained manner, Paul Schrader, who has before been among the most incendiary filmmakers of his generation in what can be compared to a runaway taxi driver, respectfully remembers his recently deceased friend, novelist Russell Banks, who provided the writer-director with the material for one of his best films
The story associated with settler colonialism in North America, includes the erasure of Native women, destruction of families, erosion of language, and the violence of education, among others. Cinema – apart from cultural mutilation, of which Native symbolism has also been a victim – has addressed the perception of Native people as stubborn and violent
The largest turnout registered in women’s sporting affairs of all time seeks to break this record, and it was a physical battle both within and outside the arena which you probably have never been told about. It is Copa 71, the first unofficial competition that can be referred as women’s soccer world cup. Nowadays: Directed
