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My top 10 films of 2025 🍿
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#Islands
seduces a sun-soaked, Hitchcockian tennis noir thriller 🎾 set on the scenic Canary Islands
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SCREEN | Touring the 'Islands' – A Sunshine Noir
Islands Movie Review
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Sing to Broadway Across Canada's jukebox musical remix of
@moulinrougebway.bsky.social
💃 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical x Queen Elizabeth Theatre x Downtown. (via Evan Zimmerman) Broadway Across Canada's touring production of the jukebox musical remix based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film stars....
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#HisforHawk
grieves a touching literary biographical drama 🦅 about falconry as therapy
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H is for Hawk (dir. Philippa Lowthorpe). Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson star as a grieving daughter and her recently departed photojournalist father in an emotional film about taking up falconry in...
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#TheBeastinMe
builds an irresistible psychological thriller miniseries 🖼️ about unlikely neighbours
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The Beast in Me (prods. Gabe Rotter & Howard Gordon). Netflix's psychological thriller miniseries, starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys as unlikely neighbours, offers an irresistible premise centred...
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7 days ago
#28YearsLater
: The Bone Temple extends the British zombie horror franchise ☠️ to cerebral new depths of terror
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (dir. Nia DaCosta). From producer Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland comes their fast-tracked, second 28 Days Later legacy sequel, picking up directly where 28YL...
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'The Testament of Ann Lee' shakes the religious founder's devout faith as an ambitious musical fable ⛪️ at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
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REEL | Amanda Seyfried Shakes 'The Testament of Ann Lee' x TIFF 2025
The Testament of Ann Lee Movie Review
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9 days ago
'His & Hers' solves a preposterously interconnected 🌳 small-town murder mystery whodunnit
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His & Hers (prods. William Oldroyd & Dee Johnson). Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal star as an estranged Atlanta couple, both professionally and personally tangled up in a gruesome murder case back in....
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9 days ago
Devoured
@hertzbarry.bsky.social
's exhaustive chronicle of
#FastAndFurious
' entire film franchise history 🛞 in 'Welcome to the Family'
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Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters that Supercharged the World by Barry Hertz. (via TMU) Hachette's unauthorized book chronicling the entire cinematic.....
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#DeadMansWire
relives the notorious but prescient as ever real-life 1977 Indianapolis hostage crisis ☎️ at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
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REEL | Gus Van Sant Takes 'Dead Man's Wire' Hostage x TIFF 2025
Dead Man's Wire Movie Review
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10 days ago
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11 days ago
'Father Mother Sister Brother' tells an appealing family triptych anthology of indie slow cinema ⌚️ at
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Father Mother Sister Brother (dir. Jim Jarmusch) x VIFF 2025. Mubi's dyfunctional ensemble family anthology film follows a triptych of estranged relationships from around the world in an amusing...
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#TheChronologyOfWater
swims past a fragmented but expressionistic film memoir 🏊♀️ of literary salvation
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SCREEN | Kristen Stewart Swims Past 'The Chronology of Water'
The Chronology of Water Movie Review
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There's nothing I enjoy more than celebrities pretending to hate each other as banter 🎬
#GoldenGlobes
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14 days ago
'Sirāt' journeys deep into the Moroccan desert for a beguiling rave odyssey 🏜️ at
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@viffest.bsky.social
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Sirāt (dir. Óliver Luxe) x VIFF 2025. Set after an illegal Moroccan rave in the near-apocalyptic future, the beguiling film takes its misfit characters to the limits of human psychology. As the ragtag...
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'People We Meet on Vacation' comes together for an appealing beach read 🏖️ of a vacation rom-com
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SCREEN | Falling for the 'People We Meet on Vacation' on Netflix
People We Meet on Vacation Netflix Review
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Daisy Ridley survives the terrifying but minimalist 🧟♂️ zombie character drama 'We Bury the Dead'
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GENRE | Daisy Ridley Survives 'We Bury the Dead'
We Bury the Dead Movie Review
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15 days ago
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15 days ago
'It Was Just an Accident' questions the moral vengeance of Iranian dissidents in darkly comic fashion 🚐 at
@riotheatre.bsky.social
@viffest.bsky.social
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It Was Just an Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi) x VIFF 2025. A darkly comedic thriller, the Iranian film follows five dissidents debating whether or not to murder their former torturer while making sure.....
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16 days ago
#TheGirlfriend
adapts a steamy psychological thriller miniseries ⛰️ of family intrigue and power
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The Girlfriend (prods. Naomi Sheldon & Gabbie Asher). Amazon's miniseries adaptation of Michelle France's steamy psychological thriller novel of the same name plays a controlling mother (Robin Wright)...
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18 days ago
'The Mother and the Bear' braves the Winnipeg cold 🐻 for an accepting Korean-Canadian family dramedy
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The Mother and the Bear (dir. Johnny Ma) x VIFF 2024. South Korean actress Kim Ho-jung stars as a worried but disarming mother who travels to wintry Winnipeg after her immigrant daughter has an...
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21 days ago
'Cover-Up' investigates journalist
@seymourhersh.substack.com.web.brid.gy
's complex coverage of historical war crimes 📰 at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
@viffest.bsky.social
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Cover-Up (dirs. Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus) x VIFF 2025. Netflix's biographical docu-portrait of independent investigative journalist Seymour "Sy" Hersh's illustrious career reporting on war crimes...
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Daisy Ridley survives the terrifying but minimalist 🧟♂️ zombie character drama
#WeBuryTheDead
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GENRE | Daisy Ridley Survives 'We Bury the Dead'
We Bury the Dead Movie Review
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21 days ago
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'Little Lorraine' smuggles a gripping, real-life mid-'80s Nova Scotia drug crime drama 🦞 at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
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SCREEN | Smuggling 'Little Lorraine' x WFF 2025
Little Lorraine Movie Review
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21 days ago
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24 days ago
#HeatedRivalry
spices up pro hockey as an irresistibly smutty 🏒 gay sports romance
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Heated Rivalry (prod. Jacob Tierney). Crave's wildly popular television adaptation of bestselling Nova Scotian author Rachel Reid's Game Changers series of gay hockey romance novels lives up to its...
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24 days ago
#Rosemead
stars a powerful Lucy Liu in a devastating but compassionate 🖨️ real-life Chinese family tragedy
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Rosemead (dir. Eric Lin) x VAFF 2025. Based on the real-life tragedy committed by a Taiwanese-American immigrant single-mother in the eponymous L.A. County city, a stripped-down but powerful Lucy Liu....
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My top 10 films of 2025 🍿
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27 days ago
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27 days ago
'Now You See Me : Now You Don't' tricks the Four Horsemen 💎 into another global magician heist
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't (dir. Ruben Fleischer). Jesse Eisenberg and the original, middle-aged Four Horseman magician gang reunite for another amusing but convoluted, trick-heist comedy. Joined.....
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My top 10 films of 2025 🍿
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Bi Gan's
#Resurrection
dreams an ambitious Chinese odyssey of surrealist sci-fi slow cinema across time and space 📽️ at
@viffest.bsky.social
@thecinematheque.bsky.social
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VIFF 2025 | Bi Gan Dreams A Cinematic 'Resurrection'
Bi Gan Resurrection 2025 Movie Review
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#AnacondaMovie
reboots a silly, meta action-comedy 🐍 as a journey of true friendship into the jungle
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Anaconda (dir. Tom Gormican). It's hard to imagine a sillier or funnier buddy comedy movie premise, starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black, than two friends travelling to the Amazon jungle to film an...
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Bi Gan's
#Resurrection
dreams an ambitious Chinese odyssey of surrealist sci-fi slow cinema across time and space 📽️ at
@viffest.bsky.social
@thecinematheque.bsky.social
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VIFF 2025 | Bi Gan Dreams A Cinematic 'Resurrection'
Bi Gan Resurrection 2025 Movie Review
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about 1 month ago
Level Up pop-up games room 🎮 inside the Westin Bayshore hotel
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#SongSungBlue
pays tribute to Neil Diamond's music 🎶 in a bittersweet 2000s-era Milwaukee love story
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Song Sung Blue (dir. Craig Brewer). Based on Greg Kohs' 2008 documentary of the same name, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star as the real-life Milwaukee singing duo, Mike and Claire Sardina, from the.....
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Domestic thriller
#TheHousemaid
twists a complicated marital dispute 🗝️ involving Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried
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The Housemaid (dir. Paul Feig). Both Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried give extreme performances in the film adaptation of author Freida McFadden's wildly popular 2022 thriller novel about an unhappy...
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#AvatarFireAndAsh
repeats itself as another blazingly action-packed 🌋 but relentlessly sprawling cinematic experience
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Avatar: Fire and Ash Review
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about 1 month ago
Sneak peek: Potluck's arcade-themed Street Hawker Turbo 🍔 smash burger offshoot in Cambie Village
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about 1 month ago
An Intimate Evening with
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showcases 🎸 an offbeat
#HBO
comedy special
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An Intimate Evening with Adam Pally (dir. Brent Hodge). HBO's unconventional comedy special captures the talented comedian and actor reflecting on his life in the entermainent industry. Framed as a...
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#AvatarFireAndAsh
repeats itself as another blazingly action-packed 🌋 but relentlessly sprawling cinematic experience
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REEL | Beneath Pandora – 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Repeats Itself
Avatar: Fire and Ash Review
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about 1 month ago
'Hal & Harper' bonds over its earnest sibling dramedy series 🎒 about growing up too fast
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Hal & Harper (prod. Cooper Raiff). Lili Reinhart and Raiff star as co-dependent siblings, who had to grow up a bit too fast and now are emotionally stunted as young adults, raised by a troubled but...
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'Being Eddie' recalls portions of
#EddieMurphy's
remarkable life 📽️ and Hollywood career
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Being Eddie (dir. Angus Wall). Most everything outside of the recent Saturday Night Live hosting footage in Netflix's biographical documentary felt pretty cookie cutter. However, groundbreaking...
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Ordering $26,000 worth of sides in honour of Rob Reiner
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'Dust Bunny' hides a family-friendly horror fairytale 🐰 about the dangers of childhood
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Dust Bunny (dir. Bryan Fuller) x TIFF 2025. Fuller's family-friendly horror fantasy starring Mads Mikkelsen as a noble hitman tasked with eliminating his child neighbour's titular under-the-bed...
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'You Had to Be There' revisits the wild comedic legacy of 1972's Toronto production of
#Godspell
🎭 at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
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SCREEN | Revisiting 'Godspell' – 'You Had to Be There' x WFF 2025
You Had to Be There Documentary Review
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about 1 month ago
Our top 10 TV shows of 2025 📺
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about 1 month ago
'Youngblood' crosschecks a competitive underdog hockey drama about growing up 🏒 at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
@viffest.bsky.social
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Youngblood (dir. Hubert Davis) x WFF 2025. Toronto-based, Saint Lucian-Canadian actor Ashton James stars as the eponymous junior hockey prospect in a more serious remake of the 1986 sports cult...
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10 other films from 2025 📼 you may have missed
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'You Had to Be There' revisits the wild comedic legacy of 1972's Toronto production of
#Godspell
🎭 at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
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You Had to Be There Documentary Review
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#Pluribus
joins a compelling sci-fi drama exploring the global loss of individuality 🍩 against the terrors of total collectivism
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Pluribus (prod. Vince Gilligan). From the makers of Breaking Bad comes a compelling sci-fi drama exploring collectivism vs. individualism using a novel global hive mind premise for its narrative...
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Finally –
#KillBill
: The Whole Bloody Affair reassembles Quentin Tarantino's 4½-hour revenge opus 🤺 of pure and uncut martial arts ultraviolence
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GENRE | Finally 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair' – Pure Uncut Revenge
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Review
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Finally –
#KillBill
: The Whole Bloody Affair reassembles Quentin Tarantino's 4½-hour revenge opus 🤺 of pure and uncut martial arts ultraviolence
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GENRE | Finally 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair' – Pure Uncut Revenge
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Review
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