Alex Heeney reviews Alice Douard’s debut feature Love Letters, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a queer woman in 2014 whose partner is pregnant with their child, and the paperwork involved with becoming her daughter’s legal parent.
Essays
HotDocs Review: Reid Davenport’s Life After
Alex Heeney reviews Reid Davenport’s new film, Life After, which tackles the troubling trend toward assisted dying for disabled people, including Canada’s own MAiD program.
What to see at MOMI’s 2025 First Look Festival
The 2025 First Look Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image celebrates adventurous cinema, both fiction and nonfiction. This year’s highlights include the documentaries Elementary and Tata, as well as the docufiction When the Phone Rang.
Film Review: Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish
Charles Burnett’s delightful 1999 screwball comedy The Annihilation of Fish has been restored in 4K and is screening across North America.
What to see (and skip) at the 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
The 2025 Rendez-vous with French Cinema features many small gems of the festival circuit, like This Life of Mine, When Fall is Coming, Winter in Sokcho, and Foreign Language.
Theatre Review: HONEY I’M HOME at Factory Theatre
Alex Heeney reviews Lester Trips’ inventive and invigorating production of HONEY I’M HOME, part of the Factory Theatre’s season of shows about AI and technology.