THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 4 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Angus (Ryan Adams) discovers that the crystalline substance that dissolved Brice’s glove in Episode Two is something odd. “Whatever hit us is made of a completely unknown element,” he …
(limited spoilers) ⁓ It is a story is about two forest fires, both of them werewolf-connected. Eighteen years ago, in the first of the fires, Park Ranger Garrett Briggs (Rodrigo Santoro) found two orphaned wolf cubs which he adopted after …
THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS Self-appointed Acting Captain Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) is caught poking around the storage closet where Malcolm Perry (Chris Leask) was murdered. This makes Head of Security Felix Strickland (Pavle Jerinić) suspicious, …
SLASH/BACK – directed by Nyla Innuksuk – (limited spoilers) In Pangnirtung, on the coast of a Baffin Island fjord, four girls, Maike (Tasiana Shirley), Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth), Jesse (Alexis Wolfe), and Leena (Chelsea Prusky), decide to take a boat up …
THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS One hundred years in the future and five years into a voyage to Proxima B, Lieutenant Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) wakes from cryosleep on the colony ship Ark One because a …
WOLF PACK – Episode 101 – From a Spark to a Flame – SPOILERS ⁓ For personal reasons, high school student Blake Navarro (Bella Shepard) insists on being without a phone, or a computer, or email. When a forest fire …
DOOR MOUSE – A film by Avan Jogia – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After a night of prophetic nightmares, Mouse (Hayley Law), wakes and silently narrates the start of the next issue of her monthly horror porn comic. Titled “Whoreific“, the …
LE CODE – Season One – Episodes 1 & 2 – (limited spoilers) In the opening scene, Corporate lawyer Idriss Toma is held at gunpoint in his Paris office by Carl Roussell (Stéphane Blancafort). Toma has just won acquittal for …
VESPER – a film by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper – (limited spoilers) We first see her searching for root vegetables in the mud, but that is not her primary occupation. A year after her mother disappeared, thirteen-year-old Vesper (Raffiella …
BELLA SWAY – Moonhaven – Emma MacDonald Bella is a pilot shuttling cargo and people between Earth (where human civilization is in its death throes) and the Moon, specifically a 1300 square kilometer colony called Moonhaven, a multi-generational think tank …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 10 – SPOILERS The three lawyers at Svensson and Associates are quite different from one another. Abigail (Jewel Staite) is ruthless and borderline unethical in advocating for her clients. Harry Svensson (Victor Garber) is …
TROLL – directed by Roar Uthaug – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Near Hjerkinn in Norway, workers tunnel through the Dovre mountains to build an extension to the Nordland Railway, which currently ends at Trondheim some 165 kilometers to the north. After …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 9 – SPOILERS The birthdays of Lucy’s deceased mom Monique and Nina the Receptionist (Kelli Ogmundson) very nearly coincide. Nina’s dad Bryan (Patrick Gilmmore) gives his (almost) twenty-two-year-old daughter a DNA kit. “Here’s hoping …
ASHGROVE – directed by Jeremy LaLonde – SPOILERS It is a tale of two couples. Jennifer Ashgrove (Amanda Brugel), a scientist tasked with solving the mysteries of a worldwide plague, is married to Jason Ashgrove (Jonas Chernick), a writer who …
QUEENS OF MYSTERY – created by Julian Unthank – (minor spoilers) Matilda Stone, played by Olivia Vinall in Season One and by Florence Hall in Season Two, was born circa 1991. Her mother, Eleanor (Jemma Amos) disappeared when Matilda was …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS Last episode, Daniel (Zach Smadu) asked Harry (Victor Garber) to make him a partner in the firm, and Harry declined. Also, Abby (Jewel Staite) saw Lucy (Genelle Williams) kissing someone other …
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE – a film by David Cronenberg – SPOILERS Not nearly as gory as, for instance, Guillermo del Toro’s CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, this story might be an attempt by Cronenberg to envision the impact of his work …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Agigail (Jewel Staite) dreams about having sex with her husband Frank (Luke Camilleri), from whom she is separated. Then four things happen in rapid succession. The receptionist at Svensson & Associates …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 Episode 3 – SPOILERS The week’s new client is Marlee Liu-Hartford (Steph Song) whose husband Dwight (Haig Sutherland) wants temporary custody of their children because Marlee (he says) is addicted to gaming. She is in …
CARMEN – a film by Valerie Buhagiar – SPOILERS ⁓ A lighthearted tale about the horrors of big religion, CARMEN takes place in an isolated Maltese village in the 1980s where the police station is across the street from the …
FAMILY LAW – Season 1 – Episode 1 – SPOILERS Abigail Bianchi (Jewel Staite) has two families and is alienated from both of them. Her husband Frank (Luke Camilleri) kicked her out of the house months ago because of behaviour …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 1 – Episodes 9 & 10 – SPOILERS ⁓ Jessie (Kylie Fisher) has been kidnapped, probably by the same person who killed Martine. In the course of her investigations, Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle …
CONTROL – a film by James Mark – SPOILERS On a sunny afternoon, a five-year-old girl (Evie Loiselle) sits in the sand by the sea and sings “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” A woman appears, and the scene is intercut …
RECIPES FOR LOVE & MURDER – mid-first-season thoughts – SPOILERS ⁓ Weeks after two probably related homicides, a lot of Eden’s townspeople seem worthy of suspicion. Anna (Daneel Van Der Walt), Martine’s would-be lover shares a gun fetish with Martine’s …
PAPER GIRLS – Season 1 Episodes 6-8 – SPOILERS On her birthday, Mac (Sofia Rosinsky) tells KJ (Fina Strazza) about her fatal illness, and the two of them decide to visit Mac’s grave. The gravestone has only the years of …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 1 – Episodes 1-4 – (minor spoilers) ⁓ For seven years, Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy) wrote the recipe column for the Klein Karoo Gazette, so when it was decided an advice column would …
Christina Rosato (Brent’s wife Brooklyn) will be Diana Vega in ARIEL: BACK TO BUENOS AIRES, the story of Davie and Diana, a brother and sister who return to Argentina (the country of their birth), learn to dance tango. In the …
PAPER GIRLS – Episodes 3, 4, & 5 – (speculative recap) ⁓ On the day the Paper Girls arrive in 2019, Larry Radowski (Nate Coddry) records a message reminding himself of who he is. He does so to safeguard himself …
TIN CAN – directed by Seth A Smith – SPOILERS At the start of things we hear a newscaster (voiced by Shelley Thompson) saying: “Since its May discovery, the fungal infection has quickly swept across the Maritime provinces and Quebec. …
PAPER GIRLS – Episodes 1 & 2 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Erin Tieng (Ali Wong) is awakened before dawn by unexpected noises coming from her kitchen. She uses a landline to leave a phone message for a friend alerting them …
