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Continue reading →: Four Favourite First-Time Watches of JuneBigger Than Life Nicholas Ray crafts a domestic theatre made of mirrors, staircases, and door frames. This is the fourth film I have seen from Ray, and every one of them has made me more invested in his oeuvre. His main characters always feel like they are being eroded by…
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Continue reading →: Like Someone in LoveThrough the canonization of the Criterion Collection, Kiarostami has become a keystone filmmaker and a monolithic representation of Iranian cinema at large, almost ten years since his passing. Perhaps his formidable run of films through the 90s has left such an unerasable impression, but during the later sections of his…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: The Life of Chuck“I contain multitude”, a quote from Walt Whitman’s poem Song of Myself, is the most recited line in Mike Flanagan’s genre-blender The Life of Chuck, an adaptation of the Stephen King short story of the same name. To tell the story of an accountant born to the name Charles Krantz,…
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Continue reading →: Out of the Fog: Coastal Thriller Regarding CommunityAnatole Litvak’s 1941 noir thriller Out of the Fog employs the setup of a detective noir to portray the gentle spirits in a small community. A suspicious man named Goff (John Garfield) enters a small seaside community, lights a boat on fire, and enters a bar with a grin on…
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Continue reading →: MouchetteRobert Bresson is a filmmaker whose style has been revered, studied endlessly, and regurgitated by many who claim to have been influenced by him. In the TIFF Wavelength screening that took place this last Wednesday, Mouchette, one of Bresson’s slightly lesser-known works, was preceded by Nadine Nortier, a 2012 short…
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Continue reading →: Thoughts on From the World of John Wick: BallerinaIn case you have not noticed from its title, Ballerina is a spin-off from the John Wick franchise. As a fan of the franchise, rumours of extensive reshoots that loom over this film’s release were concerning. In turn, there is an awkward, synthetic quality in the final product, where the…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: EephusOn Sunday, October 16th, Soldier’s Field welcomes two baseball rec teams, Battlers Paint and the Riverdogs, for their final match-up before the field will be closed down for the construction of a new school. Carson Lund’s debut feature, Eephus, dominated by its director’s quirky, offhand humour and an eccentric cast…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: AprilIn complete darkness, a naked, disfigured monster slowly lurks in the distant background; offscreen, upbeat sounds of children cavorting juxtapose this discomforting off-kiltered composition. Next shot, a shower of rain pours onto the pavement until the accumulated water almost inundates the entire frame. A couple of shots later, the camera…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: Bonjour TristesseAn endless summer of nothingness. Setting almost entirely within the resplendent seaside scenery showered with glistening sunshine, the newest adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse follows the aimless summer vacation of a young girl, Cécile (Lily McInerny). She spends all of her time sunbathing, swimming in the ocean, enjoying…
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Continue reading →: In Theatres: Mission: Impossible – The Final ReckoningDuring Ethan Hunt’s apocalyptic vision in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the final film in the Mission: Impossible franchise, a series of nuclear missiles is launched by the Artificial Intelligence antagonist, the Entity. The first city he sees under attack is none other than Los Angeles, with the iconic…






