Windsor Film Festival Marks 20 Years of Celebrating Canadian Film
Highlights at the 2024 Windsor International Film Festival, WIFF, included Canadian films Shepherds, Universal Language, and Sharp Corner.
Jason Buxton
Sharp Corner: TIFF 2024 Review
The line between preparedness and obsession is a fine one in Jason Buxton’s Sharp Corner, starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders. The Nova Scotia-shot drama watches a family man's very ordinary and mundane life crumble before him as his obsession about car accidents in his front yard take over his life.
Blackbird Review
The award winning Canadian drama Blackbird is a successful and thoughtful look at how one high schooler's possibly idle threats can get blown out of proportion in our digital age with heavy consequences.
Interview: Jason Buxton
We talk with award winning first time feature filmmaker Jason Buxton about his drama Blackbird, his research into the lives of at risk youth, his struggles to make the film with his own vision in mind, and the sometimes frustrating casting process.
TIFF 2012 Reviews: Part 3
With opening day of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival now upon us, Dork Shelf's coverage rolls on with looks at Stories We Tell, On the Road, The Hunt, Peddlers, Tower, Lore, 90 Minutes, and Blackbird.
