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Becoming A Queen

By Alan Ng | June 2022

With each documentary, my world opens up just a little bit more. From director Chris Strikes and writer Sonia Godding, Becoming A Queen brings…

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With each documentary, my world opens up just a little bit more. From director Chris Strikes and writer Sonia Godding, Becoming A Queen brings audiences...

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Director Emma Catalfamo's On the Fringe of Wild takes us to a small town in northern Ontario just after the turn of the millennium. The teens in the...

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In the opening scene of Saint-Narcisse, a handsome young man is in a laundromat with a beautiful woman. They appear to be strangers, but one thing leads...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Ivan Grbovic's exquisite feature, Drunken Birds is a cinematic triumph of the highest order. The...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! La Traversée is an emotionally harrowing experience that helps demonstrate the lingering effects of a toxic separation...

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Short films have been a way for independent filmmakers to taste the fame and notoriety associated with the Oscars. Each year, five live-action and five...

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NEW TO VOD! Widely heralded as a masterwork, and one of the best Canadian films of all time, Phillip Borsos's The Grey Fox remains as eloquent, relevant,...

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I loved Andrea Dorfman's film, Spinster. It focuses on the life of 39-year-old Gaby, played by Chelsea Peretti, who turns her life around and starts...

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Pendulum is one of those movies that I couldn’t pull myself away from until the end and for unexpected reasons. It’s not the greatest film and...

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The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a poignant “women story” co-directed and co-written by Kathleen Hepburn and one of its leads,...

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