As we move into 2026, we’re grateful to share stories, screens, and this community with you. Wishing you all a very Happy New Year from team HighballTV.

Happy holidays from all of us at HighballTV🎄 Our office will be closed until January 9 for a much-needed pause. Wishing you quiet time with loved ones - and a great movie to curl up with.

Proud of the year @highballtv.bsky.social it wasn’t always easy but looking back at the collective effort of everyone who’s been a part of it has been a meaningful reflection 💜

HighballTV 2025: a year in headlines 📰 Although 2025 proved to be a challenging year in a very volatile landscape in the film industry, it’s striking to look back at what HighballTV was able to accomplish in spite of it. 🧵

🎧 The Spirit of Radio is back. The trailer for CFNY: The Spirit of Radio just dropped! From a modest Brampton house to outsized cultural influence, this is the story of a signal that mattered. Featuring Geddy Lee, Emily Haines, Deryck Whibley and more. 📺 Premieres Jan 6 on @tvodocs.bsky.social

The perfect gift for the movie lover in your life 🎁 Need a little inspiration? Skip the stress and give them something they will actually watch. Great dramas, comedies, documentaries, and horror, all curated by the film lovers on HighballTV. One subscription. Done. 🍿 HighballTV.com

🚨Breaking🚨EXCLUSIVE: TVO Docs acquires Canadian rights to “CFNY: The Spirit of Radio” Breaking News | Real Screen HighballTV’s CFNY: The Spirit of Radio has landed at TVO Docs. The music documentary will premiere January 6 at 9 pm ET, with a same-day digital debut on TVO platforms.

“As you wish.” A reminder of the wonder and warmth he shared through stories that became timeless. Rob Reiner’s voice and films will continue to meet us where imagination lives.

I made this!

Yeehaw 🤠 The Blu-ray edition of #6days2die is now available at @baystreetvideo.bsky.social, packed with behind-the-scenes extras and special features for lovers of film and westerns. Long live physical media. 📀

When you get to make your own movies at the company you built… and nothing gets axed because two conglomerates decided to become one... Just saying…👀

For the true cinephiles out there

Did you know: Festival films aren’t impossible to find - they’re just not living on your usual apps. And “indie” doesn’t mean low stakes; it’s where filmmakers take the biggest swings. Because niche isn’t limiting. It’s curated. It’s intentional. It’s cinema chosen, not shuffled. HighballTV.com

Sleep with Me 📺 drops you into the shadowy Midwest where one couple’s longing for a child pushes them into the grit of the black market and nothing stays simple after that. A blue collar, noir tinged drama that simmers with desire and consequence. #filmsky

Gold Blooded just wrapped, and Playback took notice. The Western thriller now heads into post with festival and release updates to come. Directed by @mattcampagna and #AndreRehal Written by Andre Rehal and @FoadHP #Goldblooded #Playback #Filmsky

Looking for more original stories? Strangers in a Room—winner of the @reelworldfilm.bsky.social Festival Audience Choice Award—is a visceral, sharply observed indie about identity, ambition, and the coded biases that still surface in the casting room.

Thanks to this @deadline.com scoop (deadline.com/2025/12/gold...) I can now talk about the rad new film I’ve been shooting over the last month — #GOLDBLOODED is the gorgeous new western thriller I’m doing for @highballtv.bsky.social here in Canada & for Multivisionnaire everywhere else! #ComingSoon

🚨 Breaking News via @deadline.com Gold Blooded, a new Western thriller starring #AriMillen, has been officially unveiled by #HighballTV and #MultiVisionnairPictures at Content London Directed by @mattcampagna.bsky.social & #AndreRehal, written by Andre Rehal and #Foadhp, Produced by #jonathansharp

Curious where you #cinephiles land with HighballTV? A few choices later, you’ll get the picture. 🎬

Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn If #Shogun left you wanting more grounded, human-scale epics, this 1726 tale of farmers pushed to revolt hits the mark. A young father-to-be is drawn into a simmering uprising as duty and defiance collide. Now streaming on HighballlTV

Thirty years after a violent reckoning, David learns the truth: you can’t outrun immortality. Watch Crossover: Immortal Sins, a supernatural thriller about memory, vengeance, and what happens when the past won’t stay dead. Streaming now on Amazon Prime in the US 🇺🇸

Thirty years after a violent reckoning, David learns the truth: you can’t outrun immortality. Watch Crossover: Immortal Sins, a supernatural thriller about memory, vengeance, and what happens when the past won’t stay dead. Streaming now on Amazon Prime in the US 🇺🇸

We didn’t choose the easy route. We chose to make the films and build the place to watch them. Turns out it’s complicated. And way more fun than you’d guess.

Scrolling aimlessly for your next watch? Let the world’s best film festivals decide for you. Choose your festival. We’ll take it from there. 🍿 HighballTV.com

Oh, Letterboxd is dipping its toes into festival rentals now? That’s cute. Here at HighballTV, we’ve been streaming hard-to-find festival films straight to your living room since 2018.

A powerful meditation on what we owe to each other, to the planet, and to the future. Based on #MargaretAtwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, examines how debt shapes our world far beyond money. Payback | #JenniferBaichwal

Movie Trivia with Team HighballTV The category is: Slashers, Screamers, and Psychological Damage 🔪🎃 For those who consider fear a genre and a hobby

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Watch award-winning film from all over the world. $7 a month or $7 a year That’s it. 🔗HighballTV.com

#6days2die is the kind of #Western where every character feels like they’re one bad decision away from rewriting the whole story. Get to know them and watch Six Days to Die with a 14-day 🆓 trial at HighballTV

On Her Shoulders captures Nadia Murad’s fight to make the world see the human cost of indifference and the strength it takes to speak after unimaginable violence. Streaming now on HighballTV. Alexandria Bombach 2018

Support Canadian Film & TV 🍁 Watch on a Canadian-made streaming platform. 🇨🇦 HighballTV.com

It’s been a busy couple of months with #6days2die, #PaigeDarcyMovie, #RevueCinema and @paidinsweat.bsky.social nights, and a brand new project we can’t talk about yet 🤫 It’s been a run. Grateful for everyone who helped us get here. More to come!

🎟️ Think you know your #filmfestivals? Let’s find out. 👀 From lidos with gondolas to the skiing the slopes and snow boots, red carpets, and palm trees - our quiz will test your cinephile cred. Catch these films and more festival gems streaming now on HighballTV.com 🍿

A quietly powerful road story set in the days after 9/11, The Power of Music follows two stranded musicians traveling across a shaken country, finding connection and solace through song. Human, tender, and deeply felt. The Power of Music USA • 2017 Directed by David Heinz

We came, we plié’d, we sweat.🩰 Big thanks to #RevueCinema and to everyone who joined us for the @paidinsweat.bsky.social Ballet screenings. And a major thanks to @nostalgiaphile.bsky.social for the collaboration!

Still not over the Winona Ryder jump scare 😱 BLACK SWAN and @paidinsweat.bsky.social hits different on the big screen - TONIGHT at Revue Cinema Almost sold out so get your tickets before they do! Presented by @highballtv.bsky.social

True North binge-strong. 🍁 Watch the Made in Canada collection at HighballTV.com

📺: Sympathy for Delicious @markruffalo.bsky.social’s directorial debut, starring #ChristopherThorton, #MarkRuffalo, #juliettelewis, #orlandobloom and #lauralinney

👖💀 Need a killer Halloween watch? SLAXX turns fast fashion into fatal fun. “An entertaining skewering of the hidden global politics in retail trendiness.” - The Guardian Now streaming on HighballTV.com 🎃

*(Allegedly) But to be clear - elbows up for 🇨🇦 film & TV and no one wants to watch Tron Ares

Looking for #Halloween movies inspiration? 🎃 Start with family dinner… end with Mother Father Sister Brother Frank. 🥧🔪 Streaming now on Amazon 🇺🇸 and AppleTV 🇨🇦

Doubles #Halloween costume ideas: HighballTV Edition 🎃🥧

Well, shit! Gonna have to make some room on the #6Verse mantle for SIX GUNS FOR HIRE’s new award! Looking like a posse, since SIX DAYS TO DIE won those flowers at the #WildBunch #FilmFest in 2023! Catch #SixGunsForHire on the festival circuit & #SixDaysToDie on www.HighballTV.com & Amazon Prime now!

#6Guns4Hire just rode off with Best Post Apocalyptic Western at the #WildBunchFilmFestival 🤠🏆 A big tip of the hat to @mattcampagna.bsky.social and the whole crew for this win. Thank you to the #WildBunchFilm Festival for the warm welcome and the love.

#SixGunsforHire is storming the #WildBunchFilmFestival and we are celebrating our incredible nominees: Best Director: Matt Campagna Best Cinematography Best Actor: Trevor Martin Best Actress: Lara Zaluski Best Actress: Melissa D'Agostino Best Supporting Actor: Patrick Kwok Choon Best Ensemble 👏👏👏

📣 Rolling!

A night of sold-out Suspiria, screams, and swag 🎬 🩰 @melissadags.bsky.social (and @mattcampagna.bsky.social) joined the crowd at the Revue Cinema for the @paidinsweat.bsky.social screening, supported by HighballTV. Keep showing up for your local indie cinemas - they’re the heart of film culture.

“Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves” unfurls with a bravado as outsized as its title.” - @variety.com Winner of Best Canadian Film at #TIFF 2016, this bold political epic from #MathieuDenis and #SimonLavoie dives into the chaos, conviction, and cost of revolution.

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