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Protector

March 17, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

Co-produced by Resident Evil husband-and-wife team Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich, Protector is a straight-down-the-middle action thriller. Jovovich, in this “Liam Neeson style” popcorn flick, shows us that she also has a very particular set of skills, only these skills result in more violent fatalities. Protector entertains us on one level and emotionally invests us on another, but never stops being a ridiculous ride. The pairing of such over-the-top action with a somber story…

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The President’s Cake

March 14, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

The President’s Cake, Iraq’s snubbed submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, is a slice of life competing with disturbing conditions. Two narratives, both of equal weight, run parallel to each other: a docudrama about Iraq’s living conditions while under the regime of Saddam Hussein, and a young student, Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef), trying to find and collect ingredients to bake a cake commemorating their great leader’s birthday with intimidating consequences….

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In Cold Light

March 9, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

Scream Queen Maika Monroe (The Guest, It Follows, Longlegs) goes against type for Maxime Giroux’s feature debut In Cold Light. The performance is one of Monroe’s best, complimenting Giroux’s gripping vigilante crime-thriller that has suspense to spare. In Cold Light is a thrilling pursuit picture, featuring an ex-con, Ava (Monroe), on the run for almost the entirety of the film’s runtime; between an early climactic kill which makes Ava a witness and a target to the story’s natural…

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Pillion

March 7, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

When content cheeseball Colin (Harry Melling of Harry Potter fame) meets stoic motorcyclist Ray (Infinity Pool’s Alexander Skarsgard) at a pub, it’s almost love at first sight. Both men are out and proud, but they perceive their budding relationship differently. Colin, having previous difficulty finding a partner, is immediately charmed by Ray. Ray, on the other hand, stages Colin as his submissive. This dynamic carries over to their more intimate moments. Colin is quick to understand Ray’s…

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Nirvanna the Band The Show the Movie

February 20, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

Nirvanna the Band the Show The Movie is the feature-length spin-off of the abruptly cancelled, Vice-produced television series; which initially grew from the online brainchild of director Matt Johnson (The Dirties, Operation Avalanche, BlackBerry) and musician/composer Jay McCarrol (The Kid Detective). Just like their former antics on TV, Johnson and McCarrol take big swings with their movie: they’re attempting to project a niche property into the mainstream and hoping the general public will ride along, while also approaching the…

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Cold Storage

February 17, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

Much like the rampant sample of life-threatening Skylab fungus featured in Cold Storage, Jonny Campbell’s film moves like a sticky sludge with an unpredictable element that’s scratches our morbid curiousity. A substance that was once contained in the mid-2000s after an outbreak in Australia has seeped out of its enclosure and is infecting a business of self-storage units. The danger is gradually discovered by a patrolling night crew (Barbarian’s Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery of Netflix’s…

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Anything That Moves

February 4, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

When writer/director Alex Phillips hit the indie scene with his trippy feature-length debut All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, I was already exhausted by his provocative filmmaking. By using an unreliable narrative filled with hallucinatory visuals, over-the-top performances and uncomfortable humour to convey the desperate lives of junkies made for an agonizingly aimless and, quite frankly, offensive flick. But, for Phillips’ sophomore feature Anything That Moves, these traits and signatures are juxtaposed against the…

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Dead Man’s Wire

January 23, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

Since his biopic Milk, director Gus Van Sant hasn’t been involved with many buzzy projects. That luck may change with Dead Man’s Wire, a comic crime caper that marks a brilliant return for Sant. A bizarre, public kidnapping carried out by disgruntled developer Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgard of the modern It series) is the talk of the nation, as Kiritsis holds mortgage broker Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery of Netflix’s Stranger Things) at gunpoint. Richard, filling in for his…

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We Bury the Dead

January 13, 2026Addison Wylie0 Comments

Audiences looking for a different take on survival thrillers and disaster movies may be pleasantly surprised by Zak Hilditch’s We Bury the Dead. Likewise for horror hounds who have been thirsty for crushingly bleak imports from Australia. This is a stark, sick and slick flick. Daisy Ridley has gone from space (the Star Wars franchise) to the sea (Young Woman and the Sea) and, now, to sullen ground zero after a botched military weapon test levels…

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Nouvelle Vague

December 7, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

In a would-be layup to his terrific Blue Moon, Richard Linklater returns with a love letter to filmmaking in Nouvelle Vague. This meat-and-potatoes biopic covers the making-of Jean Luc-Godard’s Breathless, which would become a staple of French cinema’s Nouvelle Vague (the New Wave) movement. As a film critic for Cashiers du Cinema, Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) stews in pent-up jealousy as he observes his peers and their filmmaking aspirations. Though content with criticizing but itching for a challenge, Godard finally gains…

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