Someone Else's Movie

With her new movie Nika and Madison making its world premiere at TIFF on Sunday, writer-director Eva Thomas is here to pay tribute to the tender soul and gigantic heart of Barry Jenkins’ 2016 Oscar-w…

Before his first feature Little Lorraine has its world premiere at TIFF this Friday, writer-director Andy Hines stops by to celebrate Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 breakout Sexy Beast, still the only motion…

Her new documentary Larry (they/them) is streaming free across Canada on CBC Gem, so director and editor Catherine Legault is here to discuss Zachary Heinzerling’s prizewinning 2013 doc Cutie and the…

Her unsettling first feature Inedia is now available on digital and on demand across Canada, so writer-director Liz Cairns is here to celebrate the fraught drama and boundless compassion of Jean-Pier…

With her new drama Sweet Angel Baby opening in select Canadian cities this Friday, August 15th, writer-director Melanie Oates is here to talk about the clarifying heartbreak of Derek Cianfrance’s sha…

With his delightful feature debut Sketch opening across the US and Canada tomorrow, writer-director Seth Worley gets geared up by dissecting the sci-fi surprises of Barry Sonnenfeld’s box-office cham…

With her first feature Foreigner having its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia festival this week, director Ava Maria Safai is here to talk about Mohammad Rasoulof’s recent allegorical Iran drama …

Having just premiered their first feature Lucid at Montreal’s Fantasia festival, filmmakers Ramsey Fendall and Deanna Milligan dive into Daughters of Darkness, Harry Kumel’s 1971 cult classic about n…

With his new documentary Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance streaming on NFB.ca and opening in Winnipeg on July 30th, filmmaker Noam Gonick takes a moment to celebrate Uli Edel’s 1989 adaptati…

With his timely new thriller 40 Acres now playing in theaters across the US and Canada, writer-director RT Thorne takes a moment to throw some love at Blood Simple, the bravura neo-noir that introduc…

It’s Canada Day, so writer-director Nik Sexton – whose new East Coast drama Skeet is heading to the Galway International Film Festival on July 11th – stops in to talk about Incendies, the Oscar-nomin…

With her splendid first feature Do I Know You from Somewhere? arriving on VOD this Friday, New Brunswick director Arianna Martinez steps up for Gore Verbinski’s Gothic creeper A Cure for Wellness – t…

With his darkly comic Self Driver now available on digital and on demand, writer-director Michael Pierro is here to celebrate Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterwork The Conversation – and pay tribute…

Director Rob Michaels – whose charming Canadian culture-clash comedy Please, After You is now available on digital and on demand – is here to share his favorite comedy: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the…

This week, director Chloe Robichaud – whose charming, spiky new comedy Two Women is now playing in Toronto and Montreal, and expandng to Vancouver on Friday – celebrates Jean-Marc Vallee’s 2011 maste…

This week, director Kourtney Roy – whose creepy first feature Kryptic is now available on digital and on demand – shares her thoughts on District 9, Neill Blomkamp’s breakout 2009 sci-fi action socia…

This week, director Daniel Robbins – whose new comedy Bad Shabbos is now playing in the US and opening this Thursday in Toronto and Vancouver – steps up for Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be, the p…

This week, actor Keeya King – currently starring in the new thriller Guess Who, on Hollywood Suite in Canada and Tubi in the US – shares her love for Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut Lady Bird, …

This week, Sharp Corner writer-director Jason Buxton steps up for the aching sadness of The Ice Storm, Ang Lee’s all-star 1997 adaptation of Rick Moody’s novel about parents and children struggling w…

This week, writer-directors Austin Andrews and Andrew Holmes – whose new film The Island Between Tides is playing at the Carlton Cinemas in Toronto and the Mayfair in Ottawa through May 1st – are her…