We rarely see this kind of thing these days — a movie with a lock-tight plot, compelling characters, and a detailed and vivid ...

ICYMI, here's a link to my recent appearance on CBC Radio talking about a few new movies in cinemas and available online.

A sweet stretch of romance and redemption in the third act goes some way to warming the more flinty elements that went before ...

It’s easy to see why some in the audience might think the new horror/drama by Zach Cregger ( Barbarian ), about a group of ...

I watched this movie at the Toronto International Film Festival 2023, when it was called North Star, and revisited it recently a second time. The fact it’s coming out almost two years after its ...

At the top of the month, when Shore Club season was kicking into gear, Andre Pettipas made a triumphant return to the fabled room. He didn’t come alone, as he was supporting the talented emcee K-OS.

Last Friday I was on CBC Information Morning with my column, which I partly devoted to Indian movies that have been playing here at the multiplex. I talked with guest host Preston Mulligan about ...

For a national cinema culture that seems weirdly allergic to genre, we can be proud in Canada of the quality thrillers, horrors, and sci-fi movies that bubble up, especially ones with Indigenous roots ...

If you’ve seen the trailer for this picture, you might’ve thought to yourself, “Hey, the grizzled veteran mentoring the young hotshot, a group of men embracing speed, intensity, and risking their ...

On Friday I was on CBC Radio in Nova Scotia to talk movies. The slate included the new Danny Boyle and Alex Garland zombie horror, 28 Years Later, the John Wick franchise documentary, Wick Is Pain, ...

This is a tribute to the Ozploitation movies of the 1970s and ’80s, like Ted Kotcheff’s Wake In Fright, while also being that self-contained thing that’s becoming a genre unto itself: A Nicolas Cage ...

As regular readers of FITI will know, I’m a programmer and artistic director at Carbon Arc Cinema in Halifax. We’re going dark this week to give the cinema spotlight to the Halifax Independent ...