A Safe Distance, which was directed by Gloria Mercer in her debut feature, had its Canadian premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival last night. It was written by Aidan West and adapted from his short film of the same name. Set in British Columbia, Alex (Bethany Brown) reluctantly agrees to go camping with her boyfriend…
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Fantasia 2026 Review: When You Open the Door
Eriko Katagiri’s When You Open the Door had its world premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival on 25th July. The film, which was written by Katagiri and Tomoko Shinozuka, follows 27-year-old Miki (Serena Motola). She wakes up in her small apartment from her sleepy memory of herself as a child, with a red-haired doll and…
Fantasia 2026 Review: Sour Minnows
Imagine you’re hanging out with your roommate, having casual conversation, and then you both return home from the supermarket to see six men laid on the floor licking the pavement. That’s exactly what happens to Ricky (David Brown) and Tepper (Chase Williamson) in Harrison Atkins’s Sour Minnows, which had its world premiere at Fantasia International…
Fantasia 2026 Review: Tight Lettuce
Joel (Dakota Daulby) has a lot going for him. He works in the construction industry and has a healthy relationship with his partner Taylor (Christie Burke), his mother Lucy (Maxim Roy), and his grandmother (France Castel). But there’s one thing that just keeps getting in the way: his father, Bodo (Emmanuel Bilodeau), who has been…
Fantasia 2026 Review: Insectasy
Insectasy had its world premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival yesterday and I would’ve loved to have been in the room when it screened. Not only as a witness to everyone’s reactions, but also as a participant. Writer and director Angus Silver wastes no time dropping his audience into the bizarre and sensual world he’s…
Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2
Watching The Devil Wears Prada 2 reminded me of that famous quote: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” To be fair, most things remind me of this quote, attributed to Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, considering the state of the world, but…
Review: “Wuthering Heights”
Since Emerald Fennell announced her latest project, an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, it has attracted the harshest of criticism—especially from the book’s most devoted fans. Set in the 18th century, the story follows the intense and destructive love between Catherine “Cathy” Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and the consequences it has on not just themselves,…
Review: Rental Family Offers Insight into Japanese Culture
*Contains story spoilers* Rental Family follows Phillip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser), an unemployed American actor who is still living in Tokyo after finding success in a wacky Japanese toothpaste commercial seven years prior. Things start to change for Phillip when he lands the unusual gig of working for a company which provides actors to play stand-in…
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Half his age by Jennette McCurdy 17-year-old Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all is her creative writing teacher, Mr Korgy. He has the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks…
Review: Forgive Us All
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a biotech virus has transformed humans into violent cannibals, Rory (Lily Sullivan, Evil Dead Rise) hides in an isolated cabin in the New Zealand wilderness with her father-in-law, Otto (Richard Roxburgh, Van Helsing). Two years earlier, Rory lost her husband and daughter to the virus, moments that still haunt…