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Night of the Zoopocalypse

March 11, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Last Halloween, Netflix released a short spin-off of Sing featuring the animated cast taking part in a fairly faithful recreation of John Landis’ iconic music video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. It was an innocuous distraction, fit for the season, that introduced kids to zombies. Any kid who was interested, entertained, or joyfully spooked by that short film should make Night of the Zoopocalypse their next watch. It’s basically a longer version of that short film except, in this…

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My Dead Friend Zoe

March 9, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

US army veteran Kyle Hausmann-Stokes makes his feature-length directorial debut with My Dead Friend Zoe, an admirable dramedy that features one of the best interpretations of PTSD. While serving in Afghanistan, Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green of TV’s The Walking Dead and Star Trek: Discovery) and Zoe (Natalie Morales of Netflix’s Dead to Me) naturally become friends. As roommates, they find themselves adjusting to a new lifestyle; especially since – as the title states – Zoe is dead and Merit is…

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Morningside

March 7, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Morningside kicks off with a brilliant Steadicam shot introducing an ensemble of characters. The camerawork and direction has flare without gloating, and the actors – nearly all fresh faces – have genuine chemistry with each other. This sets a high watermark for Ron Dias’ Scarborough-set drama about a community centre facing an inevitable closure; while its residents prepare for holiday festivities and vent about the city’s gentrification. Unfortunately, Dias’ Morningside peaks early and this terrific…

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Last Breath

March 2, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Primarily coming from a background in television and documentary filmmaking, for his feature-length effort Last Breath, director/co-writer Alex Parkinson adapts one of his docs of the same name that chronicled this same story of a stranded and submerged saturation diver.  During some underwater pipeline maintenance, a disruption leads to a snagged, and ultimately severed, oxygen supply for the diver.  As his team works to save him, the diver tries to conserve the last of his…

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Eat the Night

February 26, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

The recent cinematic success of online gaming being represented competently freezes with Eat the Night, a very silly French drama from Jessica Forever filmmakers Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel. Siblings Apolline (Lila Gueneau) and Pablo (Théo Cholbi) have a shared interest in Darknoon, a World of Warcraft-inspired role-playing video game that has allowed Apolline to come out of her shell. Unfortunately for them, an in-game announcement conveys that Darknoon’s days are numbered and will be discontinued from its…

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Parthenope

February 24, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta) is an intelligent and challenging anthropology student who impresses her teachers and peers. When she’s not in class, the Naples native embraces life with her brother, Raimondo (Daniele Rienzo), and lifelong best friend Sandrino (Dario Aita). The men around Parthenope are infatuated with her, and the women admire her. Is there anything she can’t do? The answer: no – she can in fact do it all; such as take a break from…

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Grand Theft Hamlet

February 23, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Grand Theft Hamlet adds itself to a list of movies that were developed during the COVID-19 global lockdown but, also, stands out as one of the more unique examples that will represent this era of filmmaking. A portion of the population found themselves gravitating to video games during the lockdown, considering it was one of the only ways to stay connected with people. For instance, comedienne Sarah Silverman and writer/producer Rory Albanese built a romantic…

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Wicked

February 18, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Earlier this month, director Jon M. Chu was awarded Best Director for his work on Wicked, the long-awaited stage-to-screen spin-off of The Wizard of Oz. The award came to a surprise for Chu, considering the production had been campaigned heavily for its performances and more cosmetic attributes. The award came to a surprise for me too. Though I like some of Chu’s earlier work, I felt that the filmmaker was out of his depth with…

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Universal Language

February 17, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century) wraps his latest feature, Universal Language, in his admiration for fellow auteur Guy Maddin.  Described in the press notes as an “autobiographical fever dream”, and much like Maddin’s My Winnipeg, Universal Language pitches an absurdist vision of Winnipeg from different embellished perspectives – some of these stories work better than others. Universal Language peaks early on with a fine-tuned comedy featuring eccentric gradeschoolers, their disappointed French teacher (Mani…

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The Colors Within

February 10, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

In Naoko Yamada’s beautiful anime The Colors Within, teenage wallflower Totsuko (voiced by Sayu Suzukawa) experiences life in colour. While this trait helps her identify someone’s true personality, she admits how difficult it is to fit in or be vulnerable. A difference that acts as a personal beacon for Totsuko as she navigates her high school career at an all-girl, Catholic institution. Totsuko finds herself attracted to the colour emitted by Kimi (voiced by Akari Takaishi),…

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