Martha Coolidge excavates her sexual assault in her creative nonfiction film Not a Pretty Picture, recently restored in 4K by Janus Films.
Gender and Sexuality
Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.
Film Review: Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers
Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is part ghost story and part romance, and it feels like a warm hug.
Review: Other People’s Children is Rebecca Zlotowski’s best film
Alex Heeney reviews Rebecca Zlotowski’s new film Other People’s Children, about a woman approaching forty, trying to figure out how to be a parent when she may no longer be able to be a biological one.
TIFF Review: The Swearing Jar is an existential crisis film with two romances
Lindsay Mackay’s second feature film, The Swearing Jar, is an existential crisis film with two romances.
Pray for Our Sinners: TIFF Film Review
Sinéad O’Shea’s Pray for Our Sinners is a heart-wrenching and important documentary about the quiet resistance to Catholic rule in Ireland.
Unruly Film Review: women battle patriarchy and eugenics in 1930s Denmark
Alex Heeney reviews Malou Reymann’s feature film debut, Unruly, which had its world premiere at TIFF 22. Set in 1930s Denmark, mostly on Sprøgo island, which housed an institution for “troubled” and “immoral women,” Unruly never uses the term “eugenics,” but that’s very much its subject