Ladj Ly’s timely take on Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Misérables moves from 1862 to present-day Paris, when racism, immigration bias, police corruption, enforced prostitution and poverty still thrive. The added elements of instability, drug addiction and trafficking help push the divide between the …
Robbie Amell talks crowd-funded film ‘Code 8’
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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A Devil Dress Enchants, a Teen Heroine, The Ammels Carry on the Code 8 Tradition, Octavia Spencer – Crime Podcaster Who Thinks She’s a Cop, Season 3 of Everyone’s Fave, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Join Us on Hollywood Suite’s Original Series A Year in Film!
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 and Marianne Jean-Baptiste talk ‘In Fabric’
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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Anthony Hopkin’s Tour-de-force, a Nerve Shredding, Fact-Based Corporate Thriller, a CIA/Post 9/11 Torture Thriller, a Canadian Musical About a Deadly Labour Strike in Winnipeg a Century Ago, and the Divine Agnès Varda Remembered with Love.
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 …