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  • Review: The Breadwinner

    By Adriana Fiorante The Breadwinner (2017) is an animated co-production between Canada, Ireland and Luxembourg about a young girl, Parvana (Saara Chaudry), surviving the Taliban’s seizing of her hometown,…

  • 5 Canadian films to get you in the holiday spirit

    By Nadia Brophy It’s that time of year again – the one that gets you seated by a warm fireplace, curled up in a blanket with hot cocoa in…

  • Student Creatives: The Filmmaking Journey

    By: Nadia Brophy Across all creative industries, there is a journey artists must take to establish themselves, meet their personal goals and create content they are proud of. Three…

  • Review: The Mandy Experience at Revue Cinema

    By: Ben Cohen Grade: A Mandy (2018) is an unforgettable orgy of laughter and gore. In it, Italian-Canadian director Panos Cosmatos flings an apoplectic Nicholas Cage into a psychedelic…

  • The Witching Hour at imagineNATIVE Film Festival

    (Karly Cywink/CanCulture) By: Karly Cywink Walking into the screening, you can feel the atmosphere of Indigenous culture all around you; jokes, greetings, and the overall lightheartedness of the people.…

  • The Evolution of YouTube Comedy at Buffer Festival 2018

    By: Severina Chu With the tastes, stars and expectations on YouTube constantly evolving, comedy content creators are looking to assert their place on the platform. At this year’s Buffer…

  • Buffer Festival 2018: LGBTQ+ Creators Challenge Expectations and Prioritize Creative Freedom

    Stef Sanjati (StefSanjati) (CanCulture/Nina Jeffery) By: Tess Stuber The Buffer Festival 2018 LGBTQ+ screening offered creators a chance to share new content that branches out from their regular work.…

  • Meet the 6th Annual Buffer Festival Content Creators

    By: Nina Jeffery Joey Richter, Brian Rosenthal, and Corey Lubowich (Team Starkid). Team StarKid, a musical theatre ensemble, began in 2009 when a group of friends from the University…

  • TIFF Review: Clara – Manic Pixie Dream Girls IN SPACE

    By: Ben Cohen Grade: C The typical penultimate chapter – right before the reboot – in many franchises and genres is the port over to outer space. It’s a…

  • TIFF 2018 Review: Firecrackers

    By: Andrea Josic Grade: A- At surface level, Firecrackers seems to explore everything that young adults in quiet, rural Ontario towns dream about: a way out. Far from a…

  • TIFF 2018 Review: Edge of the Knife

    By: Isabelle Kirkwood Grade: A Edge of the Knife is a 2018 Canadian drama film co-directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown. It is the first feature film spoken…

  • TIFF 2018 Review: Giant Little Ones

    Grade: B- By Julianna Perkins Giant Little Ones, a new film from Canadian director Keith Behrman, successfully completed its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.  Giant…