A businessman (Donald Sutherland) has a hotshot young new partner (William McNamara). What he doesn’t realise is that his new partner is the son of his second wife, adopted into an abusive family at birth and now a raving psychopath out to murder his natural mother for whom he blames the miseries of his lifetime.Read More »
Curtains is a 1983 Canadian cult horror film directed by Richard Ciupka, and starring John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson and Lynne Griffin. The plot tells the story of a group of actresses targeted by a masked killer at a prestigious director’s remote mansion where they are auditioning for a role in a movie.
After having a markedly troubled production that included reshoots spanning two years, the film became a staple of late night television, only to later receive attention through word of mouth among genre fans, many of whom cite the Lesleh Donaldson’s ‘ice skating’ murder scene as the memorable highlight.Read More »
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A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.Read More »
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Jean-François, Ronald, Alexis, Cédric, Benoit and Maxim are gladiators of modern times. From the strongman to the top-class bodybuilder, to the veteran who has become a trainer, they all share the same definition and obsession with overcoming their limitations. They are waiting for the next competition, working hard in the gym and following extreme diets.Read More »
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A young widow’s pain and grief finally fades after meeting a charming and handsome man who helps her to forget her past. But everything begins to go terribly wrong when it’s discovered that Mr Right hides a deadly secret from his own past.
Immediately after her whirlwind romance culminates in marriage Kevin Massie, Susan Brice (Natassja Kinski 😉 ) becomes the object of a stalker. What at first appears to be nothing more than a voyeur, frighteningly becomes an obsessed psychopath bent on murder. Susan’s nightmare begins with ominous phone messages and petty vandalism, but quickly escalates into life threatening situations.Read More »
A Canadian independent road film written and directed by Bob Gale, in his directorial debut, and starring James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Amy Smart, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Cooper and Kurt Russell, with a cameo by Michael J. Fox.
PLOT: Neal Oliver, a very confused young man and an artist, takes a journey of a lifetime on a highway I60 that doesn’t exist on any of the maps, going to the places he never even heard of, searching for an answer and his dreamgirl.Read More »
In the course of a few months in 2017, the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh became the most populated in the world. Out of sight, nearly 700,000 people from the Rohingya Muslim minority fled their country, Myanmar (formerly Burma), to escape genocide and seek asylum in this refugee camp. Wandering, a Rohingya Story plunges us into the merciless reality of life in this gigantic camp. A documentary that is both deeply captivating and poetic, where drama meets light, where poetry and words of Rohingya refugee Kala Miya (Kalam) guide and enlighten us on the intricacies of this place that appears to have been frozen in time.Read More »
A young girl, Annie Nolan comes to the police to confess to a murder, but runs away before saying anything. Later, she visits the police psychologist Gayle Bennett, and in flashback, her story of how she fell in love with the older policeman Craig Mitchell and was used by him in his plot to murder his wife unfolds.Read More »
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An open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest – a state of repose whose quality defies definition.Read More »