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Daniel Kraus, author of the book Whalefall published in 2023, co-wrote the screenplay for the new film adaptation with director Brian Duffield. The film follows Jay (Austin Abrams), a college student who takes a dive, determined to find the remains of his father, Mitt (Josh Brolin), a year after Mitt's death. The dive goes haywire when he gets trapped inside a whale and must figure out how to escape. The visuals are the film's greatest strength, thanks to striking visual effe

"When all else fails, you hit 'em with the truth. Ya know the hard truth. Just bang, bang, bang! Whoo! Whoo!" Digger was touted as the first film in a while in which we witnessed Tom Cruise giving this dramatic performance. When the news came out that he'd be working with 4-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Alejandro González Iñárritu, more eyes were on this satirical black comedy. Going into this I was given fair warning that this would divide people, and boy has it! I'v

The newest movie from DreamWorks Animation, Forgotten Island, explores the power of friendship and memories. When Jo and Raissa, best friends through their school years, are about to split apart and live in different countries, they finally find the portal to the island of Nakali, a mythical forgotten island they've been trying to find their entire childhood. After losing their memories of their first night there, their friendship is tested as they figure out how to get home.

A primary school teacher kidnaps her most disruptive student, chains him to her basement wall with a harness she found by googling "how to live with an 800lb gorilla," and the film then has the audacity to make you sit with the fact that you kind of understand why she did it. This is Bad Apples. It is not for everyone. It is absolutely for me. Saoirse Ronan plays Maria, known only as Ms. to the children at an aggressively posh British school that talks endlessly about its stu

"I'm in, like, a messed-up situation right now..." Over this past weekend, I finally got caught up on Zach Cregger's latest horror adaptation of the video game IP known as Resident Evil. Truth be told, I've never played any of the video games before nor have I watched any of the films. I don't have any intentions on doing the latter, especially when I don't want to support a filmmaker that allowed a stunt gone wrong where someone lost an arm. As for this film, I came in with

The 51st Annual Toronto International Film Festival is set to begin on September 10th, 2026 and run until September 20th, 2o26. The third major fall film festival to kick off the season, Toronto has always been known as the people's festival. With 293 titles playing at this year's festival, TIFF shares the best of Canadian and International film with its fans. The festival works hard to provide early access to the year's most notable titles in film. A place where all cinephil

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

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

"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

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

The fifth film in the Toy Story franchise deals with the transition from kids playing with toys to having tech to waste their time on instead. Bonnie, the young girl who Andy gave his toys to at the end of Toy Story 3, is gifted a Lilypad by her parents, partially in hopes that it will help her connect with and make friends with other kids who also play on this device. The feeling that the toys are being left behind in favor of this new gaming device brings up a lot of feelin

Office Romance is about, as you may have guessed, an office romance. Jackie Cruz (Jennifer Lopez) is the President and CEO of an airline, dealing with a lawsuit. Daniel Blanchflower (Brett Goldstein) is her new lawyer. Everyone can see where this is going. Jennifer Lopez has such a natural screen presence that I always enjoy regardless of the quality of the movie. Mediocre movies that involve her are still worth watching to some extent. That was no different here as she plays

Nate Wilcox (Nate Bargatze) is left to take care of his three daughters by himself when his wife Katie (Mandy Moore) has to go out of town for a business related trip. The premise alone is already very been there, done that. The concept that the dad has no idea how to parent because the mom does all the hard work is a stereotype that has been played to death. That wouldn't matter as much if we got one of the best versions of that trope or even a movie that's actually really f

No one has ever made a film about weather forecasting before, and somehow, inexplicably, it is one of the most tense things I have watched this year. With Pressure, Anthony Maras has taken a story about a Scottish meteorologist arguing with an American meteorologist over whether it will rain on June 5th, 1944, and turned it into something that had me actually leaning forward in my seat. The fate of the entire Allied invasion of Europe rests on a man reading cloud formations c

With I Love Boosters, Boots Riley has made another film that feels like it was conceived at 2am by someone who read three books on Marxist theory, watched every heist movie ever made, and then ate something they probably should not have eaten. I mean this as a compliment. Mostly. Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, and Taylour Paige play three working class Bay Area women who steal luxury goods and resell them on the street at prices normal humans can actually afford. They are not crim

Betrayal, espionage, and a whole lot of cigarette smoking, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War picks up where the Prime Series left off. Our titular leading man, Jack Ryan (John Krasinski), is back, but rather than the abrasive CIA agent we know and love him to be, this time he is a civilian. At the end of season 4, Jack had testified before the Senate, exposing high levels of government corruption. Leaving him to be a regular man. That is, until Ghost War ropes Jack back into

There are certain pop rock songs that you pretend you don't know. John Carney has built a career out of making people like you feel okay about liking those songs. He has done just that with Power Ballad, his first feature in almost 20 years. The film caught me by surprise on an otherwise unimportant day. In the film, Paul Rudd plays the titular character who is a wedding singer in Ireland. He had the potential to make it big in the pop music world. He missed the chance, made