Five and a half hours in one 10-minute hit: chatting My Undesirable Friends with Julia Lotkev! Good streaming for the long weekend.

I liked The Drama! You'll learn a lot about your friends while discussing it.

Sometimes you have to make a horror movie to fund a documentary: Silver Screamers embraces the darkly comedic elements of its origins as a kind of Frankenstein’s monster of documentary filmmaking. povmagazine.com/silver-screa...

So much cream the printer won't know what to do with it.

What does it say about the state of documentary distribution when this week's theatrical releases are Tough Old Broads, Agatha's Almanac, and Silver Screamers? (No shade to those movies or the elderly. It's just curious when every other doc screens in Toronto, like, once and then disappears...)

Chatting with Canada's Oscar contender, Alireza Khatami, on The Things You Kill. Which you can now finally see in Canada after it played seemingly everywhere else.

Next issue coming soon. What a month.

I would like to know what folks love about Myki Meeks that inspires the histrionic psychosis. Don't see it. She's a one-note Drew Barrymore impersonator. No shade to DB but that's a limited schtick. The "looks", the "comedy", the "range"... this is the most bullshit Drag Race frontrunner yet

Go see Blue Heron this weekend, Toronto!

Getting some words from Mr. Rosi on BELOW THE CLOUDS!

Stop! That! Train! trailer: Start your engines, and let the Oscar race...begin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O9Z...

Coming Soon: POV issue #125. Subscribe today to be among the first to read it! 📬 povmagazine.com/coming-soon-...

"Just go outside and touch grass." Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell join us to talk about THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST and confronting the existential crisis posed by AI. povmagazine.com/how-the-ai-d...

Here we go again!

Been snowed under with grant writing and had to laugh so hard when I realized they removed the component of the application for print magazines that assess...the actual print magazine. Even they prefer to read it on the web!

This week in movies! On #ProjectHailMary "All hail Ryan Gosling" - @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social "a dreamlike exploration" - @jacksonweaver.bsky.social "this film works as well as it does because of Sandra Hüller" - @intheseats.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

Ooh, first image for the new Scorsese. 👀

The Hot Docs Forum is back! Festival announces 15 titles for the popular pitch event as it returns after a one-year pause. povmagazine.com/hot-docs-ann...

They're also adding Big Ideas Cocktails, if you want to get all liquored up before the Women, Life, Freedom documentary.

Great show for Canadians at the Oscars tonight. GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS scores the NFB its 13th nom, FRANKENSTEIN's Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau and Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey, KPOP's Maggie Kang. Nicely done!

I'm glad Hollywood finally recognized its best gay lookalike couple, Amy Madigan and Ed Harris.

Oscar night! What will win the documentary categories? #Oscars povmagazine.com/oscar-predic...

Managed to see 47 of the Best International Feature submissions heading into Oscar night. Overall, I think they got the nominees right: four great films and a turkey from France. Guess I'm on the flipside from last year! Ranked 'em here: letterboxd.com/patmullen/li...

How Apple's New True Crime Series TWISTED YOGA Centres Care Amid a Web of Lies povmagazine.com/how-twisted-...

Place your bets! Our members share their #Oscars predictions for a night with close races across the board. torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

Fun! Our simulation of the preferential ballot (with a very small sample) resulted in a tie for Best Picture.

Undertone does the Pontypool thing really well. 👍

Pundits are calling the Oscar race one of the closest matches in recent years. Our team weighs in on how the documentary categories could--and should--go. povmagazine.com/oscar-predic...

Honestly, the only way we know if the Oscars' "you must watch everything" honour system works is if The Ugly Stepsister wins. My stats are rusty, but would that be the first film with an erect penis, cum, and a lone makeup win? Or did The Fly beat that? (Pun not intended.)

About 15 months after first banging the drum for it during Sundance, shocking everyone with a 'should win' vote for Come See Me in the Good Light -- but what will win???

Here comes Hot Docs! Seen 5-6 of these so far. Good stuff.

CBC editing a statement in a show about an edited statement. 🙃

Now streaming from the NFB, The Nest explores layers of history that intersect within a Winnipeg Victorian manor. povmagazine.com/now-streamin...

All hail Meryl Streep as the insect queen 👑

Watch the first trailer for #Lorne, Morgan Neville's documentary about producer Lorne Michaels and his late night TV legacy with Saturday Night Live. povmagazine.com/lorne-traile...

Lol, my mom emailed tonight to see how our awards dinner thing went, and that she saw Hamnet finally and hopes my cat is enjoying the warm weather. (Fellini screamed at the door all day today 🐈‍⬛.)

I was very sad to learn today about the edits to Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers' speech from our gala on Monday night, and am very sorry that happened. (I was not aware of that decision/conversation.) Please watch her speech in full below:

I was not expecting to cry so hard during the Actors Awards. Keaton! Redford! O'Hara! Greene! People liking Sean Penn in that role.

"It’s often hard and miserable to have an interesting life. And I’ve been very fortunate to be able to be miserable making documentaries all these years." @ricbienstock.bsky.social tells Barri Cohen about the risks and rewards of documentary: there's joy, too! povmagazine.com/oh-the-miser...

This week in movies! On THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE 🎂 "a colourful slice of life" - @annebrodie.bsky.social "heartfelt and believable performances" - @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social "rebuilds an entire cinematic era from scratch" - @hertzbarry.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

It's a toss up between Jane Austen's Period Drama and A Friend of Dorothy in an unusually strong race for Best Live Action Short at the Oscars.

NFB's The Girl Who Cried Pearls coming for that Oscar.

Good year for the Oscar nom'd short docs: Put your money on All the Empty Rooms, but the donkeys of Perfectly a Strangeness are best in show. fyi, 4/5 of them are on streaming!

"I’ve worked with Baz for so long that to separate his style versus my style is hard for even me to wrap my head around." Film editor/executive producer Jonathan Redmond tells @filmfest.bsky.social about cutting EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT with style & swagger. povmagazine.com/how-epic-del...

Lol, Berlin honouring The Voice of Hind Rajab and The Road Between Us in the same ceremony is a *choice.* The festival is having like, TIFF-level Sideshow-Bob-steps-on-rakes moments. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Taking a few minutes to look back at Fred Wiseman's films and his impact on documentary.

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Crime 101 is a fun old school caper. Sort of has a few too many moving parts, so it feels like it builds to a huge payoff that never really happens, but it keeps you guessing.

Wuthering Heights is dreadful, but shout out to Emerald Fennell for blowing a bunch of WB cash so that she could tell everyone she flicked it to Emily Brontë during high school. 😬

This week in movies! On NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE 🍟 "very, very funny" - @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social "you’ll want to see it again" - @glennsumi.bsky.social "A wonderfully chaotic concoction" - @hertzbarry.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...