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Yorgos Lanthimos is quickly becoming a director I love. I confess I didn't care for The Lobster. However, as my friend Edward likes to s...

I acquired this Criterion DVD from Peter Thompson, the owner and operator of Movies 'N Stuff here in Ottawa. I usually make several week...

This marks the 4th and potentially last film in The Conjuring series (not to mention the Annabelle and The Nun spin offs, each with multi...

I saw this at the St. Laurent Theatres here in Ottawa. Occasionally they have first run films, like this one, but mostly it’s second run st...

Relationships are hard, especially for artists, and extra especially if they aren't hugely successful. Just read my review on Materialis...

I have a friend who told me when I was going to Algonquin College to get a "real" job, that women don't want a guy who isn...

It is very hard not to be charmed by this lovely little film which is a kind of mashup of Local Hero meets The Unbearable Weight of Massive...

Writer, director, and star, Eva Victor needs to be nominated for all the awards this season. I'm truly impressed. I would say she is ext...

"Dumb and Dumber" meets "Swimfan." Tim Robinson plays Craig, a kind of socially unaware man-child whose wife has recentl...

Stage security at rock concerts seems to have come a long, long way since 1969. But then again, do we have outdoor concerts with 300,000 peo...

I have a complicated relationship with Wes Anderson. I love some of his films: "Rushmore," "Isle of Dogs," "The Gra...

Recently we lost filmmaker David Lynch. Here in Ottawa, the  Mayfair Theatre  has once again stepped up and has been putting on a David Lync...

 As you are likely aware, we recently lost the great Gene Hackman. Here in Ottawa, the Mayfair Theatre (Ottawa's oldest movie theatre a...

Nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, "Nickel Boys" is the story of Elwood Curtis, a smart young black teen who gets thrown into a b...

"Memoir of a Snail" is an animated stop-motion film and it's not for kids. This is about as black a comedy as you will find an...

 Are you kidding me? Am I kidding you? I'm not joking around here. This is a comedy from 2001 which I believe I promptly ignored upon it...

Fans of "The Man in the Iron Mask," "Tombstone," "The Count of Monte-Cristo," and this kind of historical peri...

"Cinema Paradiso" is directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It's probably my favourite film about film, the love of film. It came out...

Katie (Carrie Coon) and Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) have come to stay with their sister, Rachel (Natasha Lyonne) to be with their dying fath...

It's a rare thing for me to watch animated films. I don't seek them out. "Coraline" came out in 2009 when my kids were thr...