After much teasing — and offering a portion of this list to radio listeners, as well as my collection of honourable mentions, and the Top 10 documentaries — here’s my picks for the best films of 2024.
Stumbled over some shots that never did see the light of day from March of this year. After the Allison Russell show at the Lighthouse Arts Centre, I headed to the basement of the Shoe Shop to catch ...
In the 14 years I’ve been producing this blog I’ve never made a Top 10 documentary list. In the past I’ve either felt under-qualified or under-prepared, I never saw enough docs to feel comfortable ...
The marketing of this film has leaned heavily on it being an erotic thriller, the likes of which were popular among adult audiences in the 1980s and 1990s, directed by men like Adrian Lyne and Paul ...
Juror #2 is a comfortingly old-school American courtroom drama, complete with a first act of lawyers, witnesses, and jurors, and a second act of deliberation. The thing that’s wowing critics is these ...
On Friday I chatted with fill-in host Preston Mulligan on CBC Information Morning about some of my favourite films of the year — but not all of them. I just don’t think I can be comprehensive until ...