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Wylie Writes’ One-On-One with Nicola Rose

July 29, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Magnetosphere is a sophomore indie from filmmaker Nicola Rose and a standout flick for pre-teens. Pitching itself as a reliable coming-of-age story from a teenage wallflower, Rose uses specific experiences, such as viewing life through synesthesia, to identify with broader and universally relatable growing pains; all while issuing a warm and welcoming feeling for anyone watching her latest effort. I wanted to speak with Nicola Rose about making such an inviting film. From casting her ensemble…

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The Wedding Banquet

July 27, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Fire Island filmmaker Andrew Ahn follows up his streamer sleeper hit with The Wedding Banquet, a contemporary remake of Ang Lee’s 90s rom-com of the same name. While I can’t comment on how faithful this adaptation is to its source material, outsiders (like myself) will enjoy Ahn’s genre-clashing family dramedy. Much of The Wedding Banquet can be perceived as a farce – misunderstandings and personality swaps build up to a grand charade where the masqueraders will benefit…

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Boxcutter

July 10, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Boxcutter is both a love letter to Toronto and a hate-letter from struggling, hustling artists trying to make it in the big city. This is a well-meaning Canadian indie with bounds of excitement, and it’s unfortunate that so much of that passion gets lost in the shuffle of the production’s immaturity. Playing out like an RPG version of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, robbed amateur rapper Rome (Ashton James) must locate copies of his missing…

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40 Acres

July 8, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

40 Acres represents the best qualities of Canadian cinema. R.T. Thorne’s outstanding survival thriller is enormously entertaining with taut and rhythmic tension, but the movie also pitches hauntingly beautiful scenery (a near-future dystopia using Northern Ontario as a backdrop) and a metaphorical vision about land being usurped from minorities. The blockbuster hit A Quiet Place was a sensory experience for audiences to perceive the stark hopelessness of an apocalypse through silences. In comparison, 40 Acres offers movie goers…

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