THE REST OF US – Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee – (limited spoilers) ⁓ It all begins with the death of a cat named Boots. After sustaining unspecified injuries, Boots is put down. Cami (Heather Graham) and Aster (Sophie Nรฉlisse) decide …
WANDER – directed by April Mullen – written by Tim Doiron – SPOILERS Arthur Bretnik (Aaron Eckhart) investigates conspiracies. Using the on-air name Atlas Major, he and his sidekick Jimmy Cleats (Tommy Lee Jones) co-anchor a “deep web” podcast called …
BRIGHT HILL ROAD – directed by Robert Cuffley – SPOILERS ⁓ It’s quickly established that Marci (Siobhan Williams) is an alcoholic. She drives drunk, works drunk (she is in charge of HR for an unspecified company), and does everything else …
THE SWARM (La Nuรฉe)- directed by Just Philippot – SPOILERS On a farm somewhere in the French countryside, Virginie Hรฉbrard (Suliane Brahim) decides to raise locusts as a last ditch effort to survive. She has a mildly asthmatic, soccer-playing son …
DEMONIC – written and directed by Neill Blomkamp – SPOILERS It begins in a dream in which Carly (Carly Pope) wanders through the dry grass surrounding a disused institutional-appearing building, calling out to her mother (who does not answer). She …
NIGHT RAIDERS – a film by Danis Goulet – SPOILERS Beyond it’s timely political message, NIGHT RAIDERS is an excellent bit of science fiction that vividly illustrates the suggestion that technology may be evolving into a form that is more …
EVERYTIME A BELL RINGS – directed by Maclain Nelson – (some spoilers) ⁓ Ali Liebert tweeted on 20 November: “spoiler alert! in #EveryTimeABellRings, Nora gets the girl!! Never thought i’d see the day that i’d be playing a lesbian in …
KINGSWAY – written and directed by Bruce Sweeney – SPOILERS Matt Horvat (Jeff Gladstone) , who is a Semiotics Professor and has a history of anxiety and depression, tells his therapist (Sara, played by Jennifer McLean) that his life has …
DONKEYHEAD – a film by Agam Darshi – SPOILERS A glimpse of a Salvation Army Santa tells us it’s December. Mona Ghumun (Agam Darshi) is caring for her father (Marvin Ishmael) who has cancer, something she has been doing for …
SEE FOR ME – directed by Randall Okita – SPOILERS ⁓ The story is part WAIT UNTIL DARK and part PANIC ROOM. (Davenport’s performance immediately brings Meg Altman to mind.) It is fast-paced with plenty of gunplay and no shortage …
BUSINESS ETHICS – directed by Nick Wernham, written by Richard Wernham – SPOILERS The story begins in a lecture hall where Professor Wrightway (Lance Reddick) is holding forth on the topic of ethics, and one of his students, Zachery Cranston …
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, but …
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) …
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 …
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 candle. …
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 the …
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 …
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 Thรฉodore Pellerin) …
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 and …
ALL MY HUSBAND’S WIVES – directed by Caroline Labrรจche – 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 …
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 sounds a lot like Shelley Long on CHEERS, …
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 …
TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES – created by Vera Miao – 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 beginning, …
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. …
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 …
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 church and …
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 …
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 …
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 explosives …
VESPER – a film by Kristina Buoลพytฤ 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 …
