Freakier Friday, the sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday, reintroduces us to mother-daughter Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan). Having left her band Pink Slip when her daughter Harper (Julia Butters) was born, Anna is now a single-mother working as a music producer and manager to pop star Ella (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan). Tess, who…
Archives for August 2025
Fantasia 2025 Review: Sugar Rot
Exploitation film Sugar Rot, which had its Quebec premiere at Fantasia Festival, follows punk girl Candy (Chloë Macleod, Foreigner) who works at an ice cream shop. When she is brutally assaulted by an ice cream man, she becomes the host of a mutant foetus and begins to transform into ice cream. Around her, store owner…
Fantasia 2025 Review: Foreigner
Set in 2004, Iranian teenager Yasamin AKA Yasi (Rose Dehgan) has just moved to Canada with her dad, Ali (Ashkan Nejati), and grandma, Zoreh (Maryam Sadeghi), following her mother’s dealing some years prior. Nervous about starting a new school, Yasi sits watching her favourite sitcom, repeating the English dialogue, often at the same time as…