With the REELWORLD Film Festival coming October 20-27, 2021, Hollywood Suite and staff from the Festival team-up to take-over four of the Network’s programming September 29-30, 2021.

September 29, 2021

Safia Abdigir’s selections:

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Buck & The Preacher (1972) 
Rashomon (1950) 

Hannah Yohannes’s selections:

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Glory (1989)

Alison Cosgrove’s selections:
Double Happiness (1994)
Prey  (1995)

Pahull Bains’s selections: 

The Lunchbox (2013)
The Big Sick (2017)
In the Mood for Love (2000)

September 30, 2021

Hannah Yohannes’s selection:

Rocky (1976)

Pahull Bains’s selection:

Withnail and I (1987)

Alison Cosgrove’s selections:
A Rage In Harlem (1991)

Thelma and Louise (1991)

Safia Abdigir’s selections:
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
Children of Men (2006)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) 

Get your tickets now for the REELWORLD Film Festival here.

A Film Festival for people who love food, which basically is everyone! THE 2021 DEVOUR! FOOD FILM FEST, now in its 11th year, takes place in-person and online October 19-24, 2021. The Classic Film Tampopo will be the Opening Night Gala, followed by a Q&A with Food Network personality Bob Blumer.

The Festival this year promises more diversity and even includes collaborations with eight Indigenous chefs!

Other Films to screen at the Festival include:

●  Gather – Directed by Sanjay Rawal. From an ambitious Apache chef to a gifted Lakota high school student, Gather follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide.

●      Life of Ivanna – Ivanna, a 26-year-young Nenets mother of five children, lives in the Arctic region of northwest Siberia, driving her herd of reindeer in the tundra just as her family did for centuries. Due to climate change and a dwindling herd, she may be forced to make a dramatic life turn: to leave the tundra for the city.

●      The Magnitude of All Things – Jennifer Abbott’s new documentary merges stories from the frontlines of climate change with recollections of the loss of her sister, drawing intimate parallels between personal and planetary grief.

●      The Secret Path – A powerful visual representation of the life of Chanie Wenjack, this is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie’s album and Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel. A musical retelling of Chanie’s story—from his escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School to his subsequent and heartbreaking death from exposure.

●      Fries! The Movie – Directed by Michael Steed. Every deliciously salty and oft-overlooked crinkle of the french fry. It takes us on a journey around the world—from the origin of the potato in Peru, through the highly contested early history of the fry in Europe and the United States.

●      Délicieux – France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens THE first restaurant.

The Festival’s CHEFS & SHORTS Programme promises plenty of Indigenous snacks and Short Films at Valley Drive-In:

●      Names for Snow – This short follows Rebecca Thomassie, an Inuk woman, around Kangirsuk as she learns the 52 Inuktitut words for snow.

●      Chishkale: The Blessing of the Acorn – Bernadette Smith weaves the story of her Tan Oak conservation efforts in Northern California into a contemporary Indigenous dance piece created to honour the sacred, traditional food of California Natives.

●      Connection – A lifelong angler, Autumn Harry had never fished beyond the waters of her reservation, until she picked up a fly rod. On a trip to Washington to cast for steelhead, she unpacks what it means to overcome her own image of fly fishers and uses the sport to fight for conservation.

●      Wajak: At the End of the Lake – On a Sunday morning, as the sun is rising, Peter Poucachiche wakes his grandson up to go moose hunting. A rather silent journey on Kitiganik’s territory.

●      Pituamkek: A Mi’kmaq Heritage Landscape – A film about moving Reconciliation with First Nations in Canada forward, Pituamkek is a proposed new National Park Reserve in PEI that has also been home to the Mi’kmaq peoples of Epekwitk for more than 10,000 years.

●      Sara Mama: Sacred Seed – In the Peruvian Andes, a Quechua boy shows his special relation to Sara Mama and reveals the knowledge within its productive cycles.

●      Ealát – “As long as the reindeer exist here, so do we.” Through Elle Márjá Eira’s eyes, we follow her family in different seasons with their reindeer herd. A story about living and surviving in Sámireindeer husbandry in strange times.

TIFF ’21 selection WILDHOOD, which was filmed along the Bay of Fundy in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). It is set in a rural trailer park, where central character Link lives with his toxic father and younger half-brother Travis. When Link discovers his Mi’kmaw mother could still be alive, it lights a flame to make a run for a better life. As the boys’ journey across Mi’kma’ki, Link finds community, identity, and love. The Film will be the Festival’s Closing Night Film.

Tickets are now on sale at www.devourfest.com.

Britney Spears has been on all our minds of late, and who knew another Documentary was on the way? Check-out the new Trailer for BRITNEY VS SPEARS!

BRITNEY VS SPEARS arrives on Netflix September 28, 2021.

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Michael Keaton stars in eight-episode series DOPESICK, which is coming to Disney+ this November. Here’s a first look at the just-released Artwork.

Synopsis:

The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Big Pharma to a distressed Virginia mining community to the hallways of the DEA. Defying all the odds, heroes will emerge in an intense and thrilling ride to take down the craven corporate forces behind this national crisis and their allies. The limited series is inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.

The eight-episode series stars Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker, with Kaitlyn Dever and Rosario Dawson. Guest stars include Phillipa Soo and Jake McDorman. 

DOPESICK arrives on Disney+ November 12, 2021.

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This Cast is so intriguing! Right in time for Halloween comes NIGHT TEETH, arriving next month on Netflix.

Synopsis:

To earn some extra cash, quirky college student Benny (Jorge Lendeborg, Jr.) moonlights as a chauffeur for one night. His task: drive two mysterious young women (Debby Ryan and Lucy Fry) around Los Angeles for a night of party hopping. Taken captive by his clients’ charm, he soon learns that his passengers have their own plans for him – and an insatiable thirst for blood. As his night spins out of control, Benny is thrust into the middle of a clandestine war that pits rival tribes of vampires against the protectors of the human world, led by his brother (Raúl Castillo), who will stop at nothing to send them back into the shadows. With sunrise fast approaching, Benny is forced to choose between fear and temptation if he wants to stay alive and save the City of Angels.

Cast: Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raúl Castillo, Alfie Allen, Alexander Ludwig, Sydney Sweeney, and Megan Fox

NIGHT TEETH arrives on Netflix October 20, 2021.

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No it’s not too early! Hallmark Channel‘s Countdown to Christmas begins October 22, 2021! This year you can expect 40 Premieres on the W Network in Canada, to get you into that festive spirit!

Here’s a little tease to get you all ready!

More details on titles to come.

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Wes Anderson‘s THE FRENCH DISPATCH is soon before us and here’s a new Music Video for the Track “Aline” from the upcoming Film. Jarvis Cocker of PULP provides vocals.

Searchlight Pictures release THE FRENCH DISPATCH October 22, 2021.

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Coming soon to Netflix after much praise out of Sundance earlier this year, is PASSING, from Actor/Director Rebecca Hall. The Film stars Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson.

Synopsis:

Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, PASSING tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and PASSING becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.

PASSING arrives on Netflix November 10, 2021.

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David Cronenberg stars in S4 of SLASHER: FLESH & BLOOD which will air exclusively in Canada on Hollywood Suite. The new Season which consists of eight episodes, features returning Cast: Paula Brancati (Dark Oracle), Jefferson Brown (Carrie), Patrice Goodman (Sunnyside), Sabrina Grdevich (A. I. Artificial Intelligence), and Christopher Jacot (Going the Distance). Joining the cast this season are Rachael Crawford (Heartland), Jeananne Goossen (The Walking Dead), Sydney Meyer (Departure) and Alex Ozerov (The Americans).

S4 centers on a wealthy, dysfunctional family that gathers for a reunion on a secluded island only to learn they will be pitted against one another in a cruel game of life and death, all while being stalked by a mysterious masked killer.

Two new episodes air 9 PM ET every Monday in October 2021, only on Hollywood Suite.

Hollywood Suite also presents SHOCKTOBER with a wide array of Horror classics available via On-Demand. The list includes:

• Eyes Without a Face (1960)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Birds (1963)
• The Last Man on Earth (1964)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• The Exorcist: The Version You’ve Never Seen Before (1973)
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• House (1977)
• Suspiria (1977)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
• Dracula (1979)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Inferno (1980)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• My Bloody Valentine (1981)
• The Hand (1981)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• Fright Night (1985)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1985)
• Chopping Mall (1986)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Near Dark (1987)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• Stephen King’s Silver Bullet (1989)
• Army of Darkness (1992)
• Interview with the Vampire (1994)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• Scream (1996)
• The Craft (1996)
• Anaconda (1997)
• Event Horizon (1997)
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Bride of Chucky (1998)
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
• Phantoms (1998)
• The Faculty (1998)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Final Destination (2000)
• Scream 3 (2000)
• Identity (2003)
• Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (2004)
• George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead (2009)
• Insidious (2010)
• Scream 4 (2011)
• The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
• mother! (2017)
• The Retreat (2021)
• A Taste of Blood (2021)  

Also available On Demand as part of the Thrillers and Chillers collection:

• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• It Came from Outer Space (1953)
• Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
• Don’t Look Now (1973)
• Family Plot (1976)
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1977)
• Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
• Cutter’s Way (1981)
• Special Effects (1984)
• Aliens (1986)
• Manhunter (1986)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• Misery (1990)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Raising Cain (1992)
• Alien 3 (1992)
• The Last Seduction (1994)
• Mimic (1997)
• Dark City (1998)
• The Bone Collector (1999)
• Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Underworld (2003)
• Sin City (2005)
• Constantine (2005)
• Let the Right One In (2008)
• Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
• Underworld Awakening (2012)
• Green Room (2015)
• Don’t Breathe (2016)
• Faking a Murderer (2020)

Universal Pictures Canada x Mr. Will are thrilled to give Readers a chance to win Advance Passes to see NO TIME TO DIE, the latest in the iconic 007 Franchise.

Screenings take place September 28, 2021 as follows:

Synopsis:

In No Time To Die, Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, with Jeffrey Wright, with Christoph Waltz and Ralph Fiennes as “M”. Also starring Rory Kinnear, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, and Billy Magnussen

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Universal Pictures Canada release NO TIME TO DIE on October 8, 2021.

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