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Canadian Film Fest 2025: ‘Vampire Zombies…from Space!’

March 27, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Vampire Zombies…from Space!: if you think that title tries hard to impress the audience, wait ’til you see the movie! Vampire Zombies…from Space! aims to be a pastiche of black-and-white creature features of the 1950s. Director Michael Stasko (co-writting with Alex Forman) nails the visual attributes of this era, yet always remembers that he’s making a cornball comedy. The best jokes in Stasko’s film are the gags that don’t necessarily satirize the genre or the period,…

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Can I Get a Witness?

March 25, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Going from one perception of dystopia (O’Dessa) to another, Can I Get a Witness? proposes a much “sunnier” version. At least, on the surface. Canadian filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming pitches a reality where the Earth’s sustainability is balanced and resolved. The only trade-offs being that nobody can use technology or travel or live past 50. If you’re reaching that age, an end-of-life ceremony (of the sacrifice’s preference) is prepared where you’ll self-euthanize yourself. In your presence, as…

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O’Dessa

March 22, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Take dystopian science fiction, spike it with musical numbers, and add a delayed pinch of satire – you just whipped up a glass of Geremy Jasper’s O’Dessa. The film is punchy and boasts confidence and attitude and, yet, still doesn’t feel like it completely commits to its concepts. Jasper condenses, what feels like, a self-penned series into a single movie. But just like what usually happens with trilogies, a strong start is followed by a…

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We Forgot to Break Up

March 19, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

We Forgot to Break Up, a great Canadian indie, will make movie goers feel like they’re part of the film’s featured band. A fitting experience considering the leading musicians always feel part of their own collective; no matter how old they are, how inspired or bored they become, and despite feeling the strain of their own growing pains. Canadian filmmaker Karen Knox (Adult Adoption) chronicles the pinballing career of The New Normals, a fictitious trans-fronted…

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Seven Veils

March 15, 2025Addison Wylie0 Comments

Academy Award nominee May December and, now, Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils are cut from the same cloth. Yet, I don’t know how to classify these types of heightened melodramas. These movies are not outright funny, but they have strange moments that are so deliberately jarring, the audience can’t help but giggle out of confusion. While this is a unique concoction, and can help the filmmaker achieve a specific brand of campiness, juxtaposing heavy themes within this…

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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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