BGM Episode 153: Fire Island
Said Atabaki joins Bil to discuss Fire Island!
Fire Island Review: Read Me to Filth, Please!
With Fire Island Andrew Anh and Joel Kim Booster deliver a hot, witty, and inclusive gay update of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
The King of Staten Island Review: Apatow Gets Inked
The King of Staten Island isn’t Judd Apatow’s funniest film to date, but it’s arguably his most heartfelt and endearing.
Cinema of Fire: The Top 5 Films of Director Ringo Lam
Colin Geddes provides a truly personal look at a titan of Hong Kong cinema.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Review
With a director more accustomed to shooting good looking and well handled action sequences, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is just a slight notch better than its predecessor, but nearly every other positive and negative from the first film remains exactly the same.
King of Devil’s Island Review
King of Devil’s Island, depicting a harsh Norwegian juvenile detention centre, isn’t too different from other juvie based films, but it’s an undeniably affecting and gut-wrenching addition to the subgenre.
Problemista Review: To Slay the Dragon
Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton star in Problemista, a zany farce about the fallibility of the American dream.
Our Top 10 Favorite Fictional Tauruses in Film and TV
Celebrate Taurus season throughout May with our list of the 10 best fictional Tauruses across film and television.
The Best Films of 2022: A Year in Review
The best films of 2022 include Top Gun: Maverick, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Women Talking, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, The Banshees of Inisherin, and Brother
TIFF 2022: Bros Review
Billy Eichner’ and Nicholas Stoller’s unabashedly gay rom com Bros is a sharp, funny, and spot-on portrait of gay life.
The Best Films of 2022 So Far: Marvels vs. the Mavericks
Surveying the best films of 2022 offers a mixed state of the union. Movie theatres, after nearly two years of COVID-19 closures in Toronto, are open and full of flicks. However, nearly every multiplex in town is screening the same few films. That rarely happened in 2019. COVID-19-related disruptions are obviously far from over. A […]
TIFF Wish List: 10 Films We Hope to See at the 2024 Festival
Films we hope to see at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival include The Last Showgirl, Nosferatu, and Maria.
The Classics Shelf: Anjelica Huston
That Shelf salutes the career of Anjelica Huston by surveying her films like The Dead, The Grifters, Prizzi’s Honor, The Addams Family, and Enemies, A Love Story.
The Classics Shelf: Cannes ’82
Revisiting the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where Missing and Yol shared the Palme d’Or, but only one of them has stood the test of time.
Oscar Predictions and Picks: Awards Season and the O-Bomb
Oscar predictions and picks for Hollywood’s biggest night! Will Oppenheimer hit the Academy Awards like a nuclear bomb? Or will Barbie, The Zone of Interest, or Poor Things upset?
