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Hey friends, thanks for being here. As per usual, I watched a lot of movies in July, and here are the highlights of the ones that I saw for the first time. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/july-2025-first-136182066
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I know I said I didn’t think I’d have a lot for y’all this month, but it turns out I do, so that’s fun. Anyway, as with every month of the year, I saw a bunch of movies I had never seen before in June, and here are the highlights. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-2025-first-134162903
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Every month, I watch films, both new and old, that I haven’t seen before. I’m a bit late posting this, but in May, I watched a dozen that fit this description and here are the highlights! Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/may-2025-first-131501117
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Every month I try to watch a bunch of films, both new and old, that I haven’t seen before. In April I watched an even dozen films that were new to me, and here are a few highlights. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-2025-first-128425330
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The 13th Canadian Screen Award Nominees are here! This years main ceremony will take place on June 1st with comedian Lisa Gilroy hosting. Some stand outs among the nominees include Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language which scored a towering thirteen nominations and David Cronenberg’s The Shrounds with nine. Be sure to check out the Best…
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This year the Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association membership lived up to its name and voted on our top television series of the year. It was an excellent year for television and this list reflects that. I had the privilege of writing up our number 2 pick, Shrinking Season 2: … The entire…
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The membership of the Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association –the group I co-founded– has voted and our top ten films of the year list is now live! Once again the list is full of excellent films, including at least one or two you may not be expecting. Check the list here: https://www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/cascadia-critics-ten-best-films-of-2024/
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As part of Exclaim!’s 2024 year-end coverage, I contributed to this year’s 10 Best You Didn’t See list, writing about the Canadian gem The King Tide. The King Tide delivers a striking exploration of community, faith and the lengths people will go to in the name of faith. Set in a remote Newfoundland village, the…
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As part of Exclaim!’s 2204 year end coverage, I contributed to the ten best television series of 2024 list, writing up the #6 entry: Mr & Mrs Smith: Balancing explosive action with sharp humour and tender moments, the series explores compatibility, trust and the challenges of partnership while on a mission and at home.…
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As part of Exclaim’s 2024 year-end coverage, I was invited to participate in their 20 best films of 2024 list, contributing the write-up for the #3 pick: Civil War. Upon this movie’s release in the springtime, it felt like a warning; now, it feels like condemnation. Its plot feels scarily and potentially prescient, and…
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This year’s Vancouver International Film Festival ran from September 26th to October 6th, and many Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association members were in attendance. We decided to put together a top ten list to celebrate the festival and all the great films we saw. I had the privilege of writing the blurb for…
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It’s nearly time again for the Canadian Screen Awards, which will take place from May 28th to 31st, 2024. This year’s crop of nominees represents stellar Canadian filmmaking. Last year saw some changes in the acting categories. Last year, they were made gender-neutral (and the number of nominees increased to eight). This year, they…
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This year’s inaugural Top Ten films list from the Cascadia Critics is full of excellent picks, including a few I don’t think you’ll see coming. I had the privilege of writing out our number five pick: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. …it turned out that Barbie was the best kind: fun, funny, and heartfelt whilst also investigating and…
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This year I contributed to Exclaim.ca’s top twenty films of the year both with my vote and by writing up David Fincher’s The Killer, which took the #19 spot on the list. No matter how you slice it, this film is meticulously crafted, dryly funny, appropriately brutal, and features a killer performance from Michael…
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This year, I contributed to Exclaim.ca’s Best 10 TV series of the year list with both my vote and by writing up Mike Flanagan’s excellent The Fall of the House of Usher miniseries, which took the #8 spot. Mike Flanagan returns with another project that proves he is the master of the adaptation, remixing…