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 …
SLASH/BACK – directed by Nyla Innuksuk – (limited spoilers) In the town of Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, on the east side of Cumberland Sound, four girls, Maike (Tasiana Shirley), Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth), Jesse (Alexis Wolfe), and Leena (Chelsea Prusky), decide …
UNWELCOME – directed by Jon Wright – (limited spoilers) An unassumingly complex story containing some things that are never completely explained and other things that are only hinted at, UNWELCOME begins with a series of apparent coincidences: Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) …
INFINITY POOL – a film by Brandon Cronenberg – SPOILERS ⁓ Em Foster (Cleopatra Coleman) and her husband James (Alexander Skarsgรฅrd) awaken on a clear morning, and Em is puzzled. “You said you can’t feed yourself with white sand brain …
VOLITION – directed by Tony Dean Smith – SPOILERS ⁓ “Everything you see has played out before, you just don’t know it. Most people live out their lives only experiencing the present moment – that fleeting snapshot that’s here for …
Les cinq diables (The Five Devils) – directed by Lรฉa Mysius – SPOILERS Eight-year-old Vicky Soler (Sally Dramรฉ) lives in a small mountain village several hours north of Marseilles, somewhere between Grenoble and the five Aiguilles du Diable from which …
SIMULANT – directed by April Mullen – written by Ryan Christopher Churchill – SPOILERS ⁓ This is the story of Faye (Jordana Brewster) and Evan (Robbie Amell), a wealthy married couple who purchased simulant replicas of themselves as a means …
RUN RABBIT RUN – directed by Daina Reid – (limited spoilers) ⁓ On her daughter Mia’s seventh birthday, a white rabbit appears in Sarah’s yard. Mia (Lily LaTorre), whose name means “lunar cycle” in the Noongar language, assumes it’s a …
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 …
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 …
WINTERTIDE – directed by John Barnard – SPOILERS ⁓ It is the ninety-eighth consecutive day of night, and dawn is not coming anytime soon. Something must have changed the Earth’s axial tilt, because no place remains dark for that long …
BETTER DAYS – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – (limited spoilers) ⁓ It is a tale of death and doubt, and it begins on Eric’s birthday, but we don’t know which birthday it was, because only one candle is on …
ENYS MEN – a film by Mark Jenkin – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Thought-provoking and beautiful, ENYS MEN is set in April, 1973 on a deserted island off the Cornish coast, where a lone Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) monitors the status of …
LOVE OF MY LIFE โ a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin โ (limited spoilers) Grace (Anna Chancellor) has a brain tumor and has been told she might die during the operation to remove it — an operation scheduled for four days …
HAPPILY EVER AFTER โ a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin โ SPOILERS ⁓ On the advice of her father’s doctor, filmmaker Heather (Janet Montgomery) reluctantly returns home after a long absence. She expects to find her alcoholic dad near death, but …
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 …
A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE โ a film by Geordie Sabbagh โ SPOILERS ⁓ Tracy (Meghan Heffern), significant other to unpublished novelist Adam Loule (Dylan Taylor), has made French toast for breakfast. She sets a plate of it in front …
HUMANE – directed by Caitlin Cronenberg – (limited spoilers) ⁓ This is a locked room mystery with the victims alive at the start. Yusef (Joel Gagne) and Malik (Frankie Francois) arrive to relocate a grand piano for well-known news anchor …
THE BET โ a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin (speculative recap) Isabel (Natasha Little) and her husband Cal (Colin Salmon) find themselves at odds while having dinner in an unassuming restaurant. Cal thought Isabel had told him that Adam, a man …
IโLL TAKE YOUR DEAD โ directed by Chad Archibald โ SPOILERS ⁓ William Derrow (Aidan Devine) lives on a farm with his daughter Gloria (Ava Preston), and circumstances have made him an urban legend. His butchering skills are regularly employed …
SUCK IT UP โ directed by Jordan Canning โ SPOILERS ⁓ Garrett has been dead a year or so, and Ronnie (Grace Glowicki) and Faye (Erin Margurite Carter) are (ineptly) coping. Ronnie is Garrett’s younger sister and Garrett was her …
RABID โ a film by Jen and Sylvia Soska โ SPOILERS ⁓ Rose (Laura Vandervoort), her face slightly scarred from the long ago car accident that killed her parents, works for a fashion designer named Gunter (MacKenzie Gray) whose latest …
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 …
THE KING TIDE – directed by Christian Sparkes – (some spoilers) โ The opening scenes are full of mood and mystery. On an isolated island off the Newfoundland coast, Grace (Lara Jean Chorostecki) has a miscarriage on a stormy night. …
From Mustang (music, films, TV from the 10s and earlier) Powellโs first film appearances, described below, were in โFor Elsieโ, โPrivate Peacefulโ, โAnita B.โ, and โQuartetโ. On television, she starred as the mermaid Ryn in in 36 episodes of the …
AULD LANG SYNE – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – SPOILERS โ It is the day before Christmas, and Nell (Mimi Kuzyk), a veteran actor reduced to being props master on a low-budget indie film, is talking things over with …
PYEWACKET – a film by Adam MacDonald – (limited spoilers) ⁓ This horror thriller puts forward the idea that magical incantations could be keys unlocking little known areas of the human subconscious, and that things summoned from those depths might …
THE SHROUDS – a film by David Cronenberg – (SPOILERS) ⁓ The Shrouds is a study in obsession and possessiveness. It is thematically similar to Lenore, and Annabel Lee, and just the sort of macabre tale Edgar Allen Poe might …
LEVELS – a film by Adam Stern – (speculative recap) ⁓ Joe’s smart apartment (voiced by Amanda Tapping) wakes him at 7am. The camera pans across Joe’s bookshelves, and the only conspicuous volume is “Dead Time” by Stephen White, a …
OLIVIA – a film by Felipe Morell – SPOILERS ⁓ At the start, Janis (Sara Mitich) wakes from a dream full of fire and music. On her way downstairs, she stops to look at a photo on the wall (which …
