#FIRSTLOOK: 2023 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CANADA FILM FESTIVAL
The Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival (HRWFF) in partnership with Hot Docs Cinema recently completed all in-person screenings and will now be available from March 13-19 on the Hot Docs digital platform. Following the tradition of past festivals, all tickets for digital screenings are free and accessible to everyone in Canada with internet.
The 20th anniversary festival program consists of five films covering a wide variety of human rights topics, including the powerful Freedom ...
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#JUNOS: THE WEEKND LEADS 2023 JUNO AWARDS WITH FIVE WINS
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and CBC celebrated Canada’s biggest night in music this evening at The 52nd Annual JUNO Awards Broadcast. Hosted for the second time by Hollywood superstar Simu Liu, the awards were broadcast from Rogers Place in Edmonton, nationwide on CBC TV, CBC Gem CBC Radio One, CBC Music, CBC Listen and globally on CBCMusic.ca/junos. The first traveling JUNOS since 2019, the highly anticipated show opened with Calgary native and ...
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#SXSW: “I USED TO BE FUNNY” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Rachel Sennott (also at SXSW '23 with BOTTOMS) continues her ascent, giving us range in Torontonian Ally Pankiw's (The Great, Schitt's Creek) self-penned directorial feature debut, I USED TO BE FUNNY. We meet Comedian Sam (Sennott) who is beginning to carve-out her own space in Comedy, but then suffers a trauma which de-rails her aspirations. All the while, she debates whether or not to reconnect with a missing teen whom she used to nanny, Brooke (Olga Petsa).
Upon ...
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#INTERVIEW: “BOSTON STRANGLER”
By Mr. Will Wong
16 women where killed in Boston, Massachussetts throughout the '60s and if it weren't for the groundbreaking female journalists at the Boston Record American, the common connection among these deaths might not have ever been found. Matt Ruskin writes and directs the compelling BOSTON STRANGLER, coming March 17, 2023 to Disney+ in Canada.
The Historical Drama recounts the struggles that Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley) and Jean Cole (Carrie Coon) faced in their ...
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#NEWMUSIC: CRASH ADAMS – “CALIFORNIA GIRL”
Do you like Piña Coladas? Or Teenage Dream-era Katy Perry? Toronto duo Crash Adams are here to get us into that Summer Spirit with an early bid for Song of the Summer, CALIFORNIA GIRL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wln2oGJ3OiU
This weekend, pop duo Crash Adams joined fans on YouTube to premiere the official video for “California Girl.” The video brings the group back to the Santa Monica pier with influencer Katarina Mogus to spread joy and positivity with their ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR “OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE”
Star-studded, Guy Ritchie directed Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre launches exclusively in Canada on Prime Video on April 7, 2023! Here's a look at the Trailer!
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, and Hugh Grant
Synopsis: In the film, super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). ...
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#SXSW: “UPON ENTRY” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Diego (Alberto Ammann) and Elena (Bruna Cusí) are immigrating from Spain to the United States in the hopes of starting a new life. They have landed in Newark with all the necessary approvals and have three hours before their connecting flight leaves for Miami.
That is how UPON ENTRY opens, with the remainder of its 74-minute running time composed of anxiety, confusion and an endlessly grueling interrogation after Diego and Elena are taken to a secondary inspection area ...
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#OSCARS: “EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE” DOMINATES 2023 OSCARS
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE dominated the 95th Academy Awards tonight with seven wins, including Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role (Michelle Yeoh), Directing (The Daniels), Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), Original Screenplay (The Daniels) and Editing. Going into the night, the Film has the distinction of being the most awarded Film in history and further added to the tally. Yeoh made history as the first ever Asian woman to win Actress in a ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR DISNEY’S “THE LITTLE MERMAID”
The trailer for Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” the live-action reimagining of the studio’s animated musical classic, are here! Two of the film’s stars, Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy, debuted the trailer during the 95th Annual Academy Awards®. “The Little Mermaid,” helmed by visionary filmmaker Rob Marshall, opens exclusively in theatres nationwide May 26, 2023.
https://youtu.be/WYpg9uE0RrA
“The Little Mermaid” is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and ...
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#SXSW: “AMERICAN BORN CHINESE” TO PREMIERE AT SXSW 2023 AND ARRIVES MAY ON DISNEY+
Today, Disney+ revealed the May 24, 2023 premiere date for the Disney+ Original series “American Born Chinese.” This :30 first look at the genre-hopping action-comedy from Disney Branded Television series produced by 20th Television, celebrates the show’s three Oscar nominees: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and guest star Stephanie Hsu. The Series gets a premiere at SXSW this week!
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Gene Luen Yang, "American Born Chinese" tells the story of ...
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