Film Description: Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved trauma. This empowering documentary dares us to think beyond mainstream medicine and embrace Indigenous ways for overcoming mental health and addiction issues. Director Biography: Jack Major is an LGBTQ+ documentary filmmaker and writer. […]
In a year of many unexpected events, the drive-in theatre is making a comeback. Many of us have been missing a night out, live music, and movies on the big screen. A drive-in theatre can give you all three! And from the socially distanced safety of a car. As long as you’ve got access to […]
If you’re looking to expand your movie viewing while homebound during the pandemic, the NFB is sharing a new release called, Wasekun. Filmed in cinéma vérité style, this feature-length doc follows a group of incarcerated men with troubled pasts as they undergo treatment based on Indigenous philosophy at the Waseskun Healing Center. Director Steve […]
If you love going to the movies and you’re cooped up at home because of the coronavirus, Hollywood is offering an alternative.
Chocolates, Flowers and stuffed animals are all things you should worry about this Friday. Don’t worry about the movies though we got you. Surprise your significant other with our top picks. The first movie to consider is “Always Be My Maybe.” This movie is about childhood friends that stopped talking for 15 years, reconnected and […]
“ROCKET MAN” This is a tale of two Elton John’s. If you’re going to see “Rocket Man” for Elton’s music, you’re in luck. There’s plenty of that. If you’re going to see what Elton’s life and career were actually like…that’s a little more difficult. Elton has said: “My life has not been dull. What I […]
There is absolutely nothing “Little” about April’s 2019 movie releases. Except for the title of the Will Packer comedy film starring Regina Hall, Marsai Martin and Issa Rae—that is. We’ll need that humor to relieve some of the scare we’ll get from Stephen King’s new horror, Pet Sematary starring Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz. Best […]
THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE explores the way a young Cree woman’s disappearance triggers events in two worlds: in Moosonee, the remote Northern Ontario community she fled years ago, and Toronto, where she modelled before vanishing. When her twin sister heads south to retrace her sibling’s steps, her uncle is left to deal with the repercussions […]
The month of March promises a warmer follow up to February’s cold releases as it marks the commence of Spring. The stand-alone Marvel super her-o movie Captain Marvel; headlines the month with high-flying action starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson. Your dose of thriller can be found in half of March’s most anticipated titles. […]
February is the heartiest month of them all. So, it’s only right that it offers movie titles that you might love to see. February extends the frigidness of January‘s winter with a Cold Pursuit starring Liam Neeson. Perhaps you would rather warm up to the sight of on-fire movie star Gina Rodriguez in the foreground […]