Close to You, 2024. Directed by Dominic Savage. Starring Elliot Page, Hillary Baack, Wendy Crewson, Peter Outerbridge, Janet Porter, Alex Paxton-Beesley, Daniel Maslany, Sook-Yin Lee, Andrew Bushell, David Reale, Jim Watson, and Amanda Richer. SYNOPSIS: Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Inception) stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown […]
Movie Review – Backspot (2024)
Backspot, 2024. Directed by D.W. Waterson. Starring Devery Jacobs, Kudakwashe Rutendo, Shannyn Sossamon, Wendy Crewson, Oluniké Adeliyi, Thomas Antony Olajide, Evan Rachel Wood, Noa DiBerto, Emmerly Tinglin, Marlee Sansom, Adrianna Di Liello, Bria Grace Mitchell, and Madison Seguin. SYNOPSIS: Riley is given the chance to cheer with the all-star squad, Thunderhawks. With a competition looming, […]
Antiviral (2012) – October Horrors 2022
Antiviral, 2012. Directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith, Joe Pingue, Nicholas Campbell, Sheila McCarthy, Wendy Crewson and Malcolm McDowell. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, corporations make fortunes by selling celebrity sicknesses to obsessed fans. Seeking to profit for himself, an employee soon stumbles upon a sinister mystery involving his […]
Movie Review – The Kid Detective (2020)
The Kid Detective, 2020. Written and Directed by Evan Morgan. Starring Adam Brody, Peter MacNeill, Maurice Dean Wint, Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Sarah Sutherland, Wendy Crewson, Jonathan Whittaker, Sophie Nélisse, Tzi Ma, Amalia Williamson, Jesse Noah Gruman, Marcus Zane, Lisa Truong, Sharon Crandall, Sophia Webster, Kira Gelineau, Dallas Edwards, Avery Esteves, and Bethanie Ho. SYNOPSIS: A once-celebrated […]
Netflix sets its cast for October Faction TV series
Earlier this month it was announced that Netflix has placed a series order for a TV adaptation of Steve Niles’ comic book series October Faction, and now comes word that the series has set its cast. As per THR, Tamara Taylor (Bones) and J.C. MacKenzie (Murder One) have signed on to portray the globetrotting monster hunter […]
51st Chicago International Film Festival Review – Room (2015)
Room, 2015. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson Starring Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Tom McCamus, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson and William H. Macy SYNOPSIS: Love knows no boundaries Room is a harrowing piece of filmmaking where a mother and five-year-old son are confined to the titular claustrophobic space. The life that Ma/Joy (Brie Larson) is able […]
