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‘La Grazia’ Highlights Two Masters | Awesome Friday!
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How do we measure our legacy? This is the question at the heart of Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, the story of an Italian President facing down his last six months in office, and pondering what his legacy might be. Mariano De Santis (Toni Servillo) is a man of great repute. A steady, even-tempered…
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‘This Too Shall Pass’ Takes a Nostalgic, Heartfelt Journey to Ottawa | Northern Reel
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A staple of filmmaking, the coming-of-age story works because, regardless of circumstances, we can all relate to the story being told. Whether we’re young and needing affirmation, or old and needing reminding, a story of a young person going on a quest and finding themselves in the process is one we can all see…
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‘Whistle’ is a Call to Horror Fans but Perhaps No One Else | Movies We Texted About
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There are many subgenres of horror, but one of the most reliable is the “kids eff around and find out”. It’s a reliable setup that doesn’t require much work from filmmakers or the audience to make for a good time at the movies, even if the film we’re talking about isn’t that good to…
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‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ is One of the Funniest and Most Heartfelt Films of the Year | Northern Reel
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Comedy is hard, and not all comedy is for everyone. Everyone has their own sensibilities, and these don’t always jibe with the sensibilities of those writing and delivering the jokes. A film like this one, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, attempts to thread the needle between being incredibly specific and incredibly broad,…
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‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Runs Loops Around the AI Apocalypse | Exclaim!
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The time loop movie has become a fixture of the science fiction genre, to the point where it feels like most avenues that can be explored through this device already been. Director Gore Verbinski and screenwriter Matthew Robinson challenge this premise with their latest film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.
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“Cold Storage” Makes for a Decent Winter Off-Season Watch | ForReel
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Cold Storage is very much in this third category. An science fiction action comedy in which a deadly alien fungus rages out of control in a self storage facility where an unsuspecting Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery work. The storage facility was previously a government base, and Liam Neeson shows up as the government…
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Islands: Sam Riley Shines in this Sun-Drenched Mystery | That Shelf
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“I’m not running away. I like it here.” This is Tom, a tennis pro living on a sweltering resort island, caught walking a knife-edge between denial and self-reflection. It’s never made clear exactly what Tom (Sam Riley) is running from in director Jan-Ole Gerster’s newest film, Islands, but that is by design. We don’t need…
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The Hilarious, Heartfelt ‘Wonder Man’ Is Something Entirely New for Marvel |Exclaim!
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Wonder Man is unlike anything that we have seen in the MCU to date. A meta story about heroes, Hollywood, self-expression and finding your truth, that is, in a word, excellent.
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Movie Review: ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ Is Fine for an Uneventful Evening at Home | ForReel
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People We Meet on Vacation is the latest entry in the genre. It is, in a word, familiar.
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Nuremberg Review: Well-Acted Drama Misses Opportunity to Be More | That Shelf
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“We are able to do away with domestic tyranny only when we make all men answerable to the law, so that it can never happen again.” A noble quote from a noble man, Justice Robert H Jackson, as played by Michael Shannon in James Vanderbilt’s new World War II legal drama, Nuremberg. The trials,…
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VIFF 2025: The Arctic and Its People Shine in ‘Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)’ | Exclaim!
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Set in the remote village of Igloolik circa 2000 BCE, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), the latest from acclaimed director Zacharias Kunuk, tells the story of Kaujak (Theresia Kappianaq) and Sapa (Haiden Angutimarik), two young people betrothed since childhood and about to come of age. After the death of Kaujak’s father, a man (Mark Taqqaugaq) arrives from another village…
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VIFF 2025: ‘Peak Everything’ Finds Amour Amidst Our Modern Apocalypse | Exclaim!
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The world is changing for Adam (Patric Hivon), and for us. Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, weather events becoming more extreme — and there’s very little we can do at this point. We’ve gone past the point where anyone can reasonably deny that human activity has directly effected climate, and that’s cause for great…
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VIFF 2025: ‘Blue Heron’ Takes Flight with Tender Devastation | Exclaim!
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Blue Heron will reach into the soul of anyone who has lost someone. It will pull out emotions long thought forgotten or moved past, and examine them through the small moments of half-remembered connection. Set in both the past and present, Blue Heron tells the story of a girl turned young woman named Sasha as she attempts…
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‘The Lost Bus’ Can’t Find Its Way Through the Flames | Exclaim!
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On paper, this movie should work. Acts of heroism in dire circumstances make for good watching, but Greengrass fails to deliver on the film’s promise of tension and thrills. Meanwhile, there’s a whole crew of first responders actually fighting the fire who we almost never get to see in the movie. The story of…
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Eleanor the Great Review: An Excellent Showcase for June Squibb | That Shelf
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Grief is among the most challenging of human emotions. It’s a coupling of despair at loss, the ennui of loneliness, and the fondness of memory. It is a persistence of love, but also an absence that can leave us scrambling to fill the void it has created. Eleanor the Great is a film marketed as a light-hearted…