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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Featured Festival Coverage Reviews

VIFF 2023: ‘Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’ Brings Fresh Blood to Familiar Themes | Exclaim.ca

Friday, 29 September, 2023Friday, 29 September, 2023By Matthew

The coming-of-age story is a well-worn tale, but one that still has a lot of mileage if a filmmaker can find a new angle. Director Ariane

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Ahsoka
Reviews

‘Ahsoka’ Thankfully Transcends ‘Star Wars’ Nostalgia | Exclaim.ca

Wednesday, 23 August, 2023Sunday, 1 October, 2023By Matthew

It’s fair to say that Disney+‘s various Star Wars shows have been a mixed bag. While the fan base remains rabid, the shows have not all been met

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Sinks into Incoherence | Exclaim.ca

Monday, 26 June, 2023Wednesday, 23 August, 2023By Matthew

There’s a moment in the third act of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts where the bad guys have taken possession of the transwarp key (the central MacGuffin

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Class of '09
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Class of ’09 Is Too Unrefined to Be Great | Exclaim.ca

Tuesday, 9 May, 2023Monday, 24 July, 2023By Matthew

The result is a series with unmet potential (at least in the first half) that will likely receive unfavourable comparisons to shows like Black Mirror or Westworld. That

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Polite Society
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Polite Society Doesn’t Follow Coming-of-Age Conventions | Exclaim.ca

Tuesday, 25 April, 2023Thursday, 29 June, 2023By Matthew

Polite Society hits the ground running, jumping and kicking in the first few minutes, and never lets up its pace or infectious, offbeat energy. It’s a

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Shrinking
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Shrinking Grows Past Its Familiar Story| Exclaim.ca

Friday, 27 January, 2023Thursday, 29 June, 2023By Matthew

With so much content these days, it can sometimes feel like there are no new stories. Shrinking, AppleTV+’s new series starring Jason Segel, covers familiar territory: an

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Broker
Reviews

Broker Unboxes Found Families | Exclaim.ca

Wednesday, 28 December, 2022Thursday, 29 June, 2023By Matthew

What makes a family? This is the question on Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s mind lately. As with his 2018 Palme D’or-winning film Shoplifters, Broker attempts to answer that question by examining

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