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 …
TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES – created by Vera Miao – (minor spoilers) Each of the episodes is a short film roughly twenty minutes long, and is in the middle of a two sentence story. The first sentence, shown at the …
THE RIGHTEOUS – a film by Mark O’Brien – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Frederick Mason (Henry Czerny) was a Catholic priest until ten years ago when he met and married Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk). A few years later the couple adopted Joanie …
WOLF LIKE ME – created by Abe Forsythe – Season One – (SPOILERS) This is the story of Gary (Josh Gad), a forty-year-old man whose wife died of cancer seven years ago. In the course of events, Gary will have …
FIRST KILL – created by V.E. Schwab – (minor spoilers) ⁓ The Atwood-Fairfield family are vampires who claim ancestry dating back to the Garden of Eden, and specifically to Lilith, who, according to their legends, frolicked in the garden with …
SKYMED – created by Julie Puckrin – (minor spoilers) Set just below the 56th parallel in the town of Thompson, Manitoba (population 14,000), SKYMED is as soapy as any big-city medical drama and every bit as addicting. Halfway into the …
ALL MY PUNY SORROWS – directed by Michael McGowan – SPOILERS Somewhere in Toronto, Yoli (Alison Pill) is trying to write a novel, and finding it difficult. What little she has written soon becomes relevant (if not accurate). “Suffering,” she …
ALL MY HUSBAND’S WIVES – directed by Caroline Labrèche – SPOILERS Originally titled “Power of Three“, this complex and baffling mystery was filmed in Montreal in 2019 and is set in Jersey City, New Jersey. James Phillips‘ screenplay introduces seven …
THE LAKE – Thoughts on Season 1 – (minor spoilers) When we first meet Justin Lovejoy (Jordan Gavaris), he is dithering over ice cream flavours at the back of the local convenience store. Romance is in the air as an …
PREMONITIONS – the first three episodes – (limited spoilers) It is 2016, and Clara (Pascale Bussières), the clairvoyant matriarch of the Jakob family is playing poker, which is how she makes her living. Silently, and to no one in particular, …
THE BLAZING WORLD – a film by Carlson Young – SPOILERS ⁓ Two decades ago, on a summer’s day in the deep south, Young Margaret Winter endures complementary traumas. She and her identical twin sister Elizabeth are near the pool …
Marci T House (Major Stoker in “Seen You“) was nominated for Best Supporting Performance in a Dramatic Series (Female) for the TRIBAL episode “It’s All in Your Headdress“, in which Chief of Tribal Police Sam Woodburn (Jessica Matten) and her …
MAYDAY – a film by Karen Cinorre – SPOILERS ⁓ This feminist fable is set in the psyche of Anastasia (Grace Van Patten), and as the story begins we find Ana waking up after a friend (Dimitri, played by Théodore …
L’ART DU CRIME – created by Angèle Herry-Leclerc & Pierre-Yves Mora Season Five of the adventures of Parisian art crime investigators Florence Chassange (Eléonore Bernheim) and Police Captain Verlay (Nicolas Gob) has been released, and its first story, Un coeur …
A speculative recap – SPOILERS ⁓ The opening scene might be a short film unto itself, and if it does not pique your interest, stop watching, because you just won’t get it. Alice Barone (Arianna Becheroni) sits in a bar …
THE EVIL TWIN – directed by Max McGuire – SPOILERS ⁓ The twin in the title (the evil one) is Charlotte (Emily Piggford), and she lives somewhere in upstate New York in a house purchased by her former lover Trevor …
OUTER RANGE – created by Brian Watkins – Season 1 – SPOILERS ⁓ Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) kicks things off with a dramatic aside: “You know anything about a Greek god called Chronos?” he asks. “He carried a sickle. He …
Speculative Recap – SPOILERS ⁓ Ethan (Simon Webster) wakes up in Episode 2 after having part of a chair removed from his leg. “I saw the Lake of Tears,” he tells his dad. “It was a drawing on the wall. …
ANYTHING FOR JACKSON – directed by Justin G Dyck – SPOILERS ⁓ Shannon Becker (Konstantina Mantelos) is surprised and dismayed when Dr. Walsh (Julian Richings) tells her she’s pregnant, but Walsh is very pleased and even sheds a tear over …
KICKING BLOOD – a film by Blaine Thurier – SPOILERS ⁓ Birthdays don’t mean much to immortals, but Anna (Alanna Bale), a vampire of unspecified age, finds herself confronted with a birthday cake, complete with baroque icing and a single …
