From the first incendiary moments to its unflinchingly raucous end, The Nun II is fearless. Directed by Michael Chaves, the film takes a no-...
A few months ago, with hot tears stinging my eyes, I told a person I loved in a hungry sort of way that I hated them for destroying me. "I h...
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There's something about Edmonton-born and Toronto-based songwriter Ella Coyes's voice that feels like a flag in an ardent breeze. On their l...
As Canadian director Rama Rau's camera hovers above the green vastness of, in turn, Scotland and Romania — as hesitantly sweeping drone shot...
Valentina Cicogna and Mattia Colombo's Pure Unknown begins with the rushing of water, swift and almost glowing, throwing off a soft light th...
Folk horror has always had its thorny roots turning and winding around the sharp fear that ancient beliefs are, actually, well-founded. What...
We often describe women who survive terrible things as "brave." It's a swift designation that seems to reward one's bearing the violence of...
There is a scene in John Wick: Chapter 2 that is pivotal in John Wick's (Keanu Reeves) crusade against the seedy and sprawling underworld co...
In the beginning of Riceboy Sleeps, a lavender-orange sun blankets South Korea like a burning god over water that looks unmoving, uncaring....
There is a photograph of journalist and newspaper editor Agness "Aggie" Underwood, one of the first women to hold the editorship role at a d...
What is a song? For Hiroshima-born, Montreal-based musician Jonah Yano, it's something tangible, to be thumbed through like a collection of...
By the time Slow Pulp finished their set and left the stage to make way for Alvvays, a warm familiarity had set over the crowd at History on...
It's a sweet mercy that Spoiler Alert begins at the end, at the weeping-heart-and-tear-soaked-pillow-case stage. At the final gasp, before t...
For photographer and activist Nan Goldin, photographs function as witnesses to the past, serving reliably where the mind tends to confabulat...
While initially hopeful, it's difficult to stay dancing to much of Hunting's You've Got Love (But It Even Tears You Apart) — what begins as...
It's a rare but precious thing to glimpse the nitty gritty of what it looks like for women to create art — and it's doubly precious and impo...
Near the end of the penultimate track of their third album Lemons, Fake Palms' mastermind Michael le Riche croons "I do exist, do exist, do...
Reservation Dogs is billed as a comedy, but the pivotal scene of Season 1 was a moment of intense tragedy: in the penultimate episode of the...
Toronto's Nutrients strike a magical sort of balance on their sophomore full-length Different Bridges, managing to be both cool as Paul Newm...
