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Review: Alien Romantic Drama ‘You Are Not Alone’ Is A Quiet Gem [TIFF 2024]

September 12, 2024 by Joe Lipsett

Bar Man (Pierre Yves Charbonneau) stands bathed in the white light of an open fridge door

Leave it to Quebec filmmakers to find a way to make alien abductions and mid-mid-life crises both intriguing and deeply romantic. But that’s what You Are Not Alone (2024) is.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Toronto International Film Festival Tagged With: Canadian film, François Papineau, Marianne Fortier, Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien, Pier-Luc Funk, you are not alone

[Blu Review] Shout Factory’s ‘My Bloody Valentine’ Is A Love Letter To Horror Fans

February 14, 2020 by Joe Lipsett

Thanks to Scream Factory, a Canadian cult classic slasher gets the deluxe Blu treatment that it deserves.

Spoilers follow…
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror, Horror Film Reviews Tagged With: Canadian film, canadian horror, my bloody valentine, scream factory, shout factory, slasher

[Review] Canadian Zombie Film ‘Deadsight’ Offers Stripped Down Tension

July 2, 2019 by Joe Lipsett

A blind man and a pregnant police officer try to survive a zombie apocalypse. It’s not the start of a joke; it’s Deadsight. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Horror, Horror Film Reviews Tagged With: Adam Seybold, Canadian film, canadian horror, Jesse Thomas Cook, Kevin Revie, Liv Collins, raven banner, RLJE films

[Review] Sexual Thriller BIRDLAND Is Short On Plot, Long On Atmosphere

February 10, 2018 by Joe Lipsett

Kathleen Munroe, Benjamin Ayres, Birdland

A talented Canadian documentary filmmaker debuts his fiction feature debut, featuring plenty of sex, murder and intrigue. So why doesn’t Birdland work?

Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Benjamin Ayres, Birdland, Canadian film, David Alpay, Film Noir, Joris Jarsky, Kathleen Munroe, Melanie Scrofano, Stephen McHattie, thriller

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I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

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> Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

Recent Posts

  • ‘Materialists’ Interrogates The Cost of Love [Review]
  • Serial Killer Meets Sharks in Sean Byrne’s ‘Dangerous Animals’ [Review]
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