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Toronto born cousins Robbie and Stephen Ammel joined forces with director Jeff Chan to make a feature-length version of their hit 2016 short film Code 8. Set in the troubling world of Lincoln City (Toronto) they are relegated to the fringes of society because they have special superpowers and …
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Peter Strickland, known for his daring and provocative films including The Duke of Burgundy is no less outside the box with his sensational In Fabric a sophisticated mind-bending, ironic take on horror. The threatening soundscape and often indirect cinematography create an otherworldly, creepy …
Peter Strickland’s In Fabric isn’t for the faint-hearted or unimaginative moviegoer. It is demanding, challenging, off-putting and vexing, and it’s one of the most dazzling films of the year. It's an hypnotic, fever dream following three people victimized by a red silk dress, purchased during the …
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Fernando Meirelles The Two Popes is a rarity, an important true-life religious story, an intellectual and elegant psychological thriller with massive scale and palpable intimacy. It follows the world-altering events in the Roman Catholic Church in 2013 and the things that lie uncomfortably in two …
There is great reverence for the late Fred Rogers, host of PBS Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and a poignant film now explores his effect on people. The late Presbyterian minister turned children’s friend and advocate had a way with people so new and graceful and revolutionary that he stunned TV …
