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During the Sengoku period of Japan, Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) finds himself trapped inside his own castle as his enemies close in around him. With his forces surrounded and his chances of survival becoming increasingly slim, Murashige turns to an unlikely source for help: a prisoner named Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda), a brilliant strategist who has been captured and imprisoned within the castle. Despite being his captive, Kanbei possesses an understanding of war that co

"I think that our neighborhood...our house...our whole street has moved." It's been a while since we got a movie from David Robert Mitchell, director of It Follows. The last time he had a movie in theaters was back in 2019 when Under the Silver Lake graced our silver screens. The film garnered mixed responses and was a box-office flop but has since gained a cult following. I, myself, recalled it was a bit too long but found the journey to be an interesting experience to say t

Imagine you live in a country where your government has banned premarital sex, except for one night of the year when everyone can go crazy. Well, One Night Only just hit theatres on Friday, and it is one of the wildest movie premises I’ve heard of in a long time. Starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro, I was personally excited for the film as it has been marketed as a classic romantic comedy. I am a sucker for romance, so I am always looking for one that brings me back to

Bryan Bruton lands in prison after an unfortunate accident, where he discovers that through hard work, he can find a way to escape. This happened in real life, and Bruton does a great job serving as a biopic that gives us the full scale of the story. Prison break stories can feel a little been there done that, but being a true story adds a level of intrigue that still makes the story exciting. The film does a good job with the set up, letting us get an inside look at who Brya

I need to tell you about the rain. In The Last House, a Netflix thriller that cost considerably more money than it had any right to, the rain is sentient. The rain seals your doors shut. The rain makes your windows unbreakable. The rain, and I cannot stress this enough, knows how to lock your garage door. This is a film in which hostile precipitation has developed a working understanding of residential architecture and has chosen to use that knowledge against us. I watched al

Tom Holland comes swinging back into movie theatres with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the 4th instalment of his Spider-Man franchise from Sony Pictures and Disney’s Marvel. After almost 5 years without Peter Parker gracing our screens, the fans were ready to sit back and watch their favourite friendly crime-fighting superhero. As someone who has grown up with all the iterations of Spider-Man: Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Shameik Moore, I've always had an attachment to H

Back in 1987, Carl Reiner made a teen comedy called Summer School, starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley. It remains one of the more underrated gems of the entire 1980s teen comedy wave, and I still hold it fondly to this day. Buried inside that movie is a storyline involving two students, Dave and Chainsaw, who are so obsessed with horror movies that they dedicate their entire summer to recreating their favorite horror moments with fake blood and latex, all while running a

The year is 2026 and a 66 year old man has crawled out of a twelve year retirement to make a film begging young people to take their clothes off and be honest with each other. This is where we are. This is I Want Your Sex. Gregg Araki looked at the cultural moment, at the right wing influencers proudly announcing their celibacy like it is a personality trait, at an entire generation too anxious and too online to admit they want anything, and decided that someone needed to say

Let me be honest with you about Motor City. It is exactly the kind of film I wanted to love. A dialogue free crime thriller set in 1977 Detroit, all needle drops and muscle cars and Alan Ritchson being enormous in slow motion. On paper this is everything. In practice it is a film that keeps reminding you of better films while failing to become one itself. The premise is pure pulp. Ritchson plays John Miller, an ex-con with a beautiful girlfriend and a very bad enemy in the fo

The eight-time Tony winning musical Hadestown is the newest musical to get the theatrically released proshot treatment. The five principal members of the original Broadway cast joined the ensemble from the currently running West End production in London to film the show for the big screen. The musical, written by Anaïs Mitchell, reimagines the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice as well as Hades and Persephone. While the point of a proshot like this is to ultimately make a version

We are back for the final instalment of the Heartstopper series. Based on the graphic novel series by Alice Oseman, Heartstopper has been loved around the world for celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. With three seasons, Netflix decided to close out one of its beloved series with a two-hour film rather than giving it a fourth and final season. In Heartstopper Forever, we are reunited with Charlie (Joe Locke), Nick (Kit Connor), and all of their friends for one last adventure. A

Ten years after his victory in Troy, Odysseus (Matt Damon) has yet to return to his kingdom of Ithaca. In his absence, dozens of suitors have overrun his palace, each hoping to win the hand of his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway). Unknown to them, Odysseus is still alive, enduring a perilous voyage where monsters, gods and unimaginable dangers await at every turn. Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest and most influential stories ever told. For nearly three thousand years, it ha

The Fantasia International Film Festival turns 30 this year, running July 16 through August 2 in Montreal. That's over 125 features and more than 200 shorts crammed into eighteen days. If you have never paid attention to Fantasia, here is the pitch: it is the largest genre festival in North America, and it operates almost entirely outside the machinery that dominates the fall circuit. No campaign consultants. No Telluride-to-Toronto handoff. Just horror, sci-fi, animation, ku

A small fishing village is in quite a slump. Thirty years ago, their livelihood depended on a fishing vessel called Rose of Nevada, and a storm took out the ship and its crew. One morning, the ship mysteriously returns into the harbor. Local businessman and owner of the boat Mike (Edward Rowe) is stunned, but sees this as an opportunity. Nick (George MacKay) is a husband and father, struggling to make ends meet. While trying to fix the roof of his home, it collapses in on him

"Cheers! To your perfect family." We've finally made it to the most anticipated film of 2026 for sickos. And the film I'm referring to is Evil Dead Burn! I don't know about anyone else, but I've been pretty hyped to see this entry ever since they showed off a teaser trailer in front of Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Despite not being a big horror aficionado like my colleagues, I've slowly become a fan of these grotesque films. In fact, I made an attempt to revisit some of the earlie

As of this writing, it's July 1st. Coming into today, I had seen 56 movies released in 2026. Not quite the pace I was on last year, but not a bad one by any stretch. With most of the days of the year in the backend, I'm likely easily going to crush 100 new releases in the calendar year. And that's got me excited. So how has 2026 been so far on the cinematic front? Pretty good! After having just one 4.5 out of 5 movie and no 5 out of 5 offerings in 2025, I've already got one p

Hayley Kiyoko has spent eleven years being called Lesbian Jesus by a generation of women who found themselves in a four minute music video, and Girls Like Girls the feature film is, more than anything, an act of devotion to those people. It is a love letter to a fandom rather than a fully realized film, and once you understand that, almost everything about it makes sense. The bones of the original video are all here. Sun soaked Oregon, a yellow bike with butterfly handles, sh

The highly acclaimed FX series The Bear returned to fans' screens on Thursday night, heightening anticipation for its final season. In the series' tradition, all eight episodes were dropped for binge-watching. Straying from the series organic flow of travelling to new food scenes across Chicago and the globe, season 5 boldly chooses to take on its own rendition of a chamber piece. Rather than travelling outside of the restaurant, the majority of the season takes place either

Many people who are going to see Supergirl have seen an endless amount of superhero movies. We know the formula, the tropes, the way villains function. We've seen it all many times before. As these movies continue to be made, they really have to find ways to rise above that and stand out from the pack. Supergirl doesn't even try. The film follows Supergirl herself, Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock), as she goes on a journey to find the antidote to a poison dart in order to save her

Leviticus follows two gay teens, unaccepted for who they are by the people around them, as they see an entity that's trying to harm them after being subjected to a religious conversion ritual. The entity takes the shape of the person they're most into, in this case each other. Only they can see it, making it impossible to prove to anyone else around them. The two main performances are where this movie shines. Joe Bird plays the protagonist, Naim, and we follow him through a w