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 …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 10 – Guts – SPOILERS At least two Buffy parallels can be identified easily. Lilly (Samantha Aucoin) is not named class protector, but she is crowned prom queen, and when it becomes …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 9 – Doppelkopfel – SPOILERS The new monster in town is a Castorlux (Castor + Pollux). It appears initially in a “blank body” that looks like a grey mannequin, and mimics the …
WOMAN IN CAR (Femme. Voiture.) – a film by Vanya Rose – SPOILERS Vanya Rose takes the characters from Edith Wharton’s THE REEF and inserts them into an alternate universe where their primary motivations remain the same, but causality is …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 8 – Hair – SPOILERS All those involved with Astrid and Lilly’s monster hunting (except for Val) find themselves in the school library on a Saturday afternoon. Most are there for six …
A GRAND ROMANTIC GESTURE – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – SPOILERS What if Romeo and Juliet had met, not in their early teens, but much later in life? After uncomfortably watching his girlfriend play Juliet, director Dylan (Gregory Calderone) …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 7 – Lips – SPOILERS Brutus (Olivier Renaud) tells Astrid and Lilly about this week’s monster: “Copiosus Liberi is its name and reproduction is its game. Specifically, making thousands of little mini-me’s. …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 6 – Toenail – SPOILERS Candace (Julia Doyle) has been told by her mother that unless she gets an A+ in Biology, she will have to drop out of the school play. …
SHE NEVER DIED – Directed by Audrey Cummings – Written by Jason Krawczyk – SPOILERS ⁓ She (Olunike Adeliyi) is immortal, but not a vampire although she does manage to impale someone in the course of things. She eats people, …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 5 – A-Borg – SPOILERS A Memoragatu (Jana Gillis) comes through the portal and makes several people relive the worst moments of their childhood. The beast has very long fingernails, and also …
FROM – Season 1 – Episodes 1 through 3 – SPOILERS ⁓ In an unnamed small, probably American town, Sheriff Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau), signals the approach of sunset by ringing a bell as he walks down the main (and …
ASTRID AND LILLY SAVE THE WORLD – Episode 4 – One Rib – SPOILERS We learn a lot about science teacher Frank Frick (Colin Furlong). His favourite hobbies are dessert bars, finding interesting Korean food, and improv. His significant other …
