Film/TV
By Prabhjot Bains
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Jidaigeki puzzle box melds Agatha Christie and Shakespeare to craft a powerhouse of mood, atmosphere, and character.
By Prabhjot Bains
From a samurai-set mystery to a queer slasher deconstruction, here is what to watch in August.
By Maggie McPhee
Unpacking the intimacies and intricacies of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
By Prabhjot Bains
Gregg Araki’s long-awaited return is a raucous, hyper-stylized skewering of Gen Z puritanism.
By Melissa Brassard
From avant electronica to orchestral film scores and live reinterpretations of cult classics, VIFF Live is pushing cinema beyond the screen.
By Prabhjot Bains
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation succeeds less as a self-serious prestige epic and more as an unintentional, gloriously oversized B-movie.
By Prabhjot Bains
David Wain’s Wizard of Oz riff recalls the unabashedly silly, proudly low-brow fare that once occupied a key part of the pop-cultural fabric.
By Prabhjot Bains
From Greg Arakki’s long-awaited return to Nolan’s mythically gargantuan Greek epic, here is what to watch in July.
By Prabhjot Bains
Olivia Wilde’s crackling comedy of manners feels more emotionally expansive than the grandest of studio epics.
By Prabhjot Bains
Adrian Chiarella’s queer horror reflects painful social realities.
