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.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Dr. Jules Koostachin’s Broken Angel, MisTik, and more at ImagineNative 2022
The 2022 ImagineNative Film Festival was a showcase for new talents: Dr. Jules Koostachin’s Broken Angel and MisTik, and Gail Maurice’s ROSIE.
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.
The 17 best films of TIFF 2022
Alex Heeney reflects back on the 17 best films at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 2022), including two short films.
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