Category Archives: Canadian

Carbon Arc Reviews: The Winter/Spring 2016 Season

Regular readers will know that for most of the past year I've been working at Halifax's Independent Cinema, Carbon Arc. At the beginning of 2016, I took on the role of Writer-in-Residence, writing on the site blog about the films we were watching and describing audience reactions. Reaching out to a growing community of cinephiles. At…Read More

Born To Be Blue review — The thrill is gone

Written and directed by Robert Budreau | 97 min. | ▲▲△△△ I've come to the end of my patience with the conventional musical biopic. It takes some directorial imagination to upend the cliches and do something fresh in the genre, as Bill Pohlad did last year with a dual narrative in the Brian Wilson picture Love & Mercy.…Read More

Beeba Boys review — The Suits Are Magic

Written and directed by Deepa Mehta | 103 min  Jeet Johar (Randeep Hooda) is a bit of a folk hero and leader in the Vancouver Indo-Canadian community. He's also a gangster, with a posse of five well-groomed, well-dressed henchmen rolling for him, killing people who encroach on his territory. Keen to join the crew is Nep…Read More