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My top 10 films of 2025 ๐ฟ
bit.ly/film-25
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#Atropia
satirizes the Iraq War throwback era ๐ข of toxic geopolitical discourse
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Atropia (dir. Hailey Gates). It's kind of crazy how this film makes you slightly reminisce about the Iraq War era of toxic geopolitical discourse. Alia Shawkat stars as an ambitious American actor...
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'Or Something' โ think 'Before Sunrise' ๐ but melancholic in NYC
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Or Something (dir. Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder). Starring and written by comedians Mary Neely and Kareem Rahma (of SubwayTakes fame), the street-level New York City version of Before Sunrise takes its...
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#Islands
seduces a sun-soaked, Hitchcockian tennis noir thriller ๐พ set on the scenic Canary Islands
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SCREEN | Touring the 'Islands' โ A Sunshine Noir
Islands Movie Review
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Sing to Broadway Across Canada's jukebox musical remix of
@moulinrougebway.bsky.social
๐ at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
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Moulin Rouge! The Musicalย xย Queen Elizabeth Theatreย xย Downtown. (viaย 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 ๐ฆ 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 ๐ผ๏ธ 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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11 days ago
#28YearsLater
: The Bone Temple extends the British zombie horror franchise โ ๏ธ 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 โช๏ธ at
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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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'His & Hers' solves a preposterously interconnected ๐ณ 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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13 days ago
Devoured
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#FastAndFurious
' entire film franchise history ๐ 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 โ๏ธ at
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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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15 days ago
'Father Mother Sister Brother' tells an appealing family triptych anthology of indie slow cinema โ๏ธ 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 ๐โโ๏ธ 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 ๐ฌ
#GoldenGlobes
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18 days ago
'Sirฤt' journeys deep into the Moroccan desert for a beguiling rave odyssey ๐๏ธ at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
@viffest.bsky.social
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Sirฤt (dir. รliver 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 ๐๏ธ 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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18 days ago
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Daisy Ridley survives the terrifying but minimalist ๐งโโ๏ธ 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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'It Was Just an Accident' questions the moral vengeance of Iranian dissidents in darkly comic fashion ๐ 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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20 days ago
#TheGirlfriend
adapts a steamy psychological thriller miniseries โฐ๏ธ 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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22 days ago
'The Mother and the Bear' braves the Winnipeg cold ๐ป 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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25 days ago
'Cover-Up' investigates journalist
@seymourhersh.substack.com.web.brid.gy
's complex coverage of historical war crimes ๐ฐ at
@tiffnet.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 ๐งโโ๏ธ 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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25 days ago
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'Little Lorraine' smuggles a gripping, real-life mid-'80s Nova Scotia drug crime drama ๐ฆ at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
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SCREEN | Smuggling 'Little Lorraine' x WFF 2025
Little Lorraine Movie Review
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28 days ago
#HeatedRivalry
spices up pro hockey as an irresistibly smutty ๐ 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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28 days ago
#Rosemead
stars a powerful Lucy Liu in a devastating but compassionate ๐จ๏ธ 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 ๐ฟ
bit.ly/film-25
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'Now You See Meย : Now You Don't' tricks the Four Horsemen ๐ 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 ๐ฟ
bit.ly/film-25
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Bi Gan's
#Resurrection
dreams an ambitious Chinese odyssey of surrealist sci-fi slow cinema across time and space ๐ฝ๏ธ 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 ๐ 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 ๐ฝ๏ธ 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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Level Up pop-up games room ๐ฎ inside the Westin Bayshore hotel
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#SongSungBlue
pays tribute to Neil Diamond's music ๐ถ 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 ๐๏ธ 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 ๐ but relentlessly sprawling cinematic experience
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REEL | Beneath Pandora โ 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Repeats Itself
Avatar: Fire and Ash Review
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about 1 month ago
Sneak peek: Potluck's arcade-themed Street Hawker Turbo ๐ smash burger offshoot in Cambie Village
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about 1 month ago
An Intimate Evening with
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showcases ๐ธ 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 ๐ but relentlessly sprawling cinematic experience
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REEL | Beneath Pandora โ 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Repeats Itself
Avatar: Fire and Ash Review
https://bit.ly/avatar-fire
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'Hal & Harper' bonds over its earnest sibling dramedy series ๐ 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 ๐ฝ๏ธ 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 ๐ฐ 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
๐ญ at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
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SCREEN | Revisiting 'Godspell' โ 'You Had to Be There' x WFF 2025
You Had to Be There Documentary Review
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Our top 10 TV shows of 2025 ๐บ
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about 2 months ago
'Youngblood' crosschecks a competitive underdog hockey drama about growing up ๐ at
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@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 ๐ผ 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
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@tiffnet.bsky.social
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You Had to Be There Documentary Review
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about 2 months ago
#Pluribus
joins a compelling sci-fi drama exploring the global loss of individuality ๐ฉ 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 โ
#KillBill
: The Whole Bloody Affair reassembles Quentin Tarantino's 4ยฝ-hour revenge opus ๐คบ of pure and uncut martial arts ultraviolence
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GENRE | Finally 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair' โ Pure Uncut Revenge
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Review
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