A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) (2016)

Koe no Katachi is a bit of dream project for me. I enjoyed the source material written and…

Your Name (2016)

Makoto Shinkai is the perhaps the standard bearer for the idea of the onenote director. His films all feature the same images and…

Get Out (2017)

Jordan Peele’s debut film caught me completely by surprised. Buoyed by the (at the time) unanimous positive reception of the film, I…

Fences (2016) and Moonlight (2016)

I watched these two films as a double bill more by accident than by design, but their thematic similarities lend to reviewing them together. Fences and Moonlight both portray men in periods of transition, as both Troy and Little/Chiron/Black try to negotiate the…

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Tower (2016)

It’s not often that a film challenges my preconceptions of the medium or genre. Certainly, an animated documentary about the first mass…

Call of Duty: WWII — War, War Never Changes

“Lest we forget” is a phrase that Canadians are asked to consider once a year, as…

Horizon: Zero Dawn (2017)

Horizon Zero Dawn is a game that came out of nowhere for me. Guerilla Games’ track record is a bit suspect at…

Hidden Figures (2016)

Broadly speaking, Hidden Figures is a great compliment to The Astronauts Wives Club a television miniseries from 2015…

Hot Docs 2017

I didn’t expect to watch as many films as I did during the festival, but the student pass certainly helped encourage watching films…