#SXSW: “AUDREY” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Ronnie Lipsick (Jackie van Beek) longs for the glory days, back when she was a talented soap star and not Mother to selfishly entitled Audrey (Josephine Blazier) and Norah (Hannah Diviney), who always comes last and is confined to a wheelchair. Her loveless relationship with her husband Cormack (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) is not much better. But a freak accident that lands Audrey in a coma may just turn things around for Ronnie and her family, even if it leads to a plethora of ...
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#SXSW: “HUNTING DAZE” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Nina (Nahéma Ricci) just wants to go home. Stranded in the far North, she ends up at an isolated cabin in the woods with five guys celebrating a bachelor party. They are initially against her arrival, but gradually warm up to her. When a mysterious drifter ends up at the party, things take a sharp turn for the worst.
Saying any more than that would ruin the visceral nightmare HUNTING DAZE quickly becomes. The breathless intensity rarely dissipates over the course of its ...
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#SXSW: “WHATEVER IT TAKES” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Jenny Carchman's Documentary WHATEVER IT TAKES takes us on a twisty journey to the unlikely, unveiling a dark web of corporate corruption at eBay that threatened to destroy the brand.
We meet Ina Steiner, Co-Founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and her husband David, who run a Blog which among other things, criticized eBay and other e-Commerce platforms. After doing this, they started receiving mysterious messages and package deliveries at their home. This escalated to ...
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#SXSW: “ROLEPLAY” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Faced with rampant sexual violence on their college campus, a group of Tulane University students spent a year creating an immersive play from their real-life experiences. Building characters and scenes based on the sexual politics of their campus, the student actors confront hard truths.
Director Katie Mathews crafts an urgent Documentary about sexual assaults on campuses and the cathartic role art plays in both confronting trauma and healing from it. It’s her ...
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#BOXOFFICE: “KUNG FU PANDA” DEBUTS WITH A CHOP-KICK
KUNG FU PANDA 4 debuts with a chop-kick with $55 million this weekend from 4,035 theatres for Universal Pictures! It dethrones DUNE: PART TWO, and also has the distinction of being the second highest debut for the Kung Fu Panda franchise, its best belonging to its first film in 2008. Above this, it gets a passing 69% on the Tomatometer.
Second is last week's decisive champ DUNE: PART TWO, with a strong $44 million in its second weekend, taking it to $154.7 million for Warner Bros.
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#FIRSTLOOK: FAULTY TOWERS: THE DINING EXPERIENCE TORONTO
We will be honest - we know very little about FAWLTY TOWERS, the iconic BBC Sitcom which ran in the '70s! Sorry, we're young and can't help it! FAULTY TOWERS: THE DINING EXPERIENCE, presented by Starvox Entertainment, is back for the first time in the City since 2015 and tickets are going fast. The dinner-and-a-show takes place at One Yonge Street's Lighthouse ArtSpace through April 14, 2024 (or longer!).
The Experience immersive takes you right into the world of the Series that inspired ...
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#SXSW: “AN ARMY OF WOMEN” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
This emotional Documentary follows a group of women on a criminal justice crusade in Texas. The group filed a groundbreaking federal class-action lawsuit, the first to argue that sexual assault isn’t prosecuted because it’s a crime that predominantly affects women. The group is determined to hold police and prosecutors accountable for their inaction, but their resilience is tested as they face setbacks from the system they hope to change.
The heartbeat of An Army of ...
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#SPOTTED: CAST OF “FRENCH GIRL” IN TORONTO
I honestly am so pleasantly delighted by this Film! Rom-Coms have received such a bad rap but James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright's Quebec City-set story is very much what we need right now! The Co-Writers and Co-Directors pay tribute to their hometown and their own mixed Anglo-French families in this delightful flick starring Zac Braff, Vanessa Hudgens and our v. own Evelyne Brochu!
The Film centers on Gordon (Braff), who joins his girlfriend Sophie (Brochu) on a trip back to her hometown ...
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#SPOTTED: CAST OF “GANGNAM PROJECT” IN TORONTO
This was such a blast! We love that CBC is embracing the K-Pop phenomenom with brand-new ten episode series GANGNAM PROJECT! We got to attend a fun celebration for the Series with most of the Cast in attendance. There were Korean drinks and snacks, plus an intro the Cast. We hear lead Julia Kim Caldwell was busy with studies and unable to make it! Why is this so ironic, considering she plays a tutor who finds herself unexpectedly on the path to stardom? This streams now on CBC Gem!
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#SXSW: SXSW 2024 PREVIEW
SXSW '24 kicks off tomorrow, running March 8 through 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas! This Film and TV Festival is comprised of 115 features including 89 World Premieres, 3 International Premieres, 6 North American Premieres, 4 U.S. Premieres, 13 Texas Premieres + 80 Short Films including 19 Music Videos. The TV program includes 7 TV Premieres, 8 TV Spotlight World Premieres and 6 Independent TV Pilots. The XR Experience program ...
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