RED ROVER โ directed by Shane Belcourt โ SPOILERS ⁓ Geologist Damon Pierce (Kristian Bruun) lives in his ex-fiancรฉ’s basement and spends his spare time walking the nearby beach with a metal detector. It is a pleasant-looking beach with surprisingly …
BIRDLAND โ a film by Peter Lynch โ SPOILERS ⁓ Police Detective Sheila Hood (Kathleen Munroe) suspects her ornithologist husband Tom Kale (David Alpay) is up to something. (She knows not what.) Sheila unofficially borrows police surveillance equipment, and watches …
CHRISTMAS ISLAND – Directed by David Weaver – (limited spoilers) Halfway through a private charter flight from Los Angeles to Zurich, pilot Kate Gabriel (Rachel Skarsten) runs into bad weather and is forced to land in Canada. Her passengers, the …
ADULT ADOPTION – directed by Karen Knox – (some spoilers) ⁓ Rosy (Ellie Moon) works at a bank, and, as the story begins, her boss Susan (Jennifer Wigmore) is retiring. Rosy does not like change and is very fond of …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
SEE FOR ME – directed by Randall Okita – SPOILERS ⁓ The story is a blending of WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) and PANIC ROOM (2002). (Davenport’s performance immediately brought Meg Altman to mind.) The film is fast-paced with plenty of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
