Leaves fall, rain begins to freeze, and the Toronto International Film Festival rolls around once more. We’re here to give you a peek behind the curtain before the festival kicks things off this Thursday, so that you can know what to expect from this year’s slate.
Read MoreIn many ways, the last explosive moments of Spike Spiegal’s shoot out in ’Cowboy Bebop’ defines how life cannot exist without chaos. We examine how the show and Spike’s character reflects the weight of life we all often carry.
Read More‘Affliction’ tells the story of a mentally unstable local police officer, Wade Whitehouse played by Nick Nolte, who while in the midst of a divorce. Reexamining this lost work, we can study the effects of trauma, and how it is never easily overcome.
Read More‘The Counselor’, which was so written by Cormac McCarthy as a screenplay, explores a terrain through the arrogance of a person who thinks that they can fix all the damage that led them down a dark path. But much like other McCarthy works, there was no undoing the mistakes that sowed the seeds of their own demise.
Read MoreTo celebrate the at home digital release of ‘IF’, and courtesy of our friends at Paramount Canada, FilmSpeak is giving the chance to win an ‘IF’ PRIZE PACK, including a digital code of the film! Click now for contest details. Contest closes June 23rd 2024.
Read MoreSince its release, ‘No Country For Old Men’ has stood the test of time as one of the greatest films of all time. Even to this present day, it is cited as a master class of writing and impeccable characterization. It succeeds not only as a great thriller, but as an existential exploration into violence, the unrelenting uncertainty of it, and how we can learn to live with what we can’t exactly prepare for.
Read MoreAre you interested in Horror films like ‘The Watchers’? What about animated films like ‘Inside Out 2’ or ‘Despicable Me 4’? Or family movies like ‘IF’? This summer there are plenty of movies for everyone and these are just the tip of the iceberg. Let’s take a look at FilmSpeak’s list of 20 films that you need to see in theaters this Summer.
Read MoreIt’s been 12 years now since Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man dropped into theaters and downright disrupted the then-regulated flow of superhero movies. With the film returning to theaters this past week as the next one-up in a series of Spider-Movie re-releases, it seemed like a good opportunity to revisit the film.
Read MoreWhether you are a fan of Action in Ballerina, Drama in Flightrisk, Horror in A Quiet Place: Day One or Comedy in the reboot for The Naked Gun, 2024 and beyond is sure to give us plenty of more movies to look forward in watching at our nearest cinemas. Let’s take a look at what companies such as Warner Bros, Universal, Lionsgate, Focus Features, Paramount and Disney all provided for fans during CinemaCon 2024…
Read MoreLooking back, it’s easy to see why ‘Godzilla v Kong’ paid off, but it’ll always be special to revisit that era for the MonsterVerse and movies as a whole. Director Adam Wingard permanently altered the landscape for monster movies and continues to set a new blockbuster standard with every subsequent release, and it all goes back to Godzilla vs. Kong.
Read MoreThe Final Day of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival is here and what a journey it has been. On the final update to this festival diary we look at Turtles, Roleplay, The Idea Of You and my Top 5 films from this years festival. Continue for the final entry in our recap of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival.
Read MoreTo celebrate the at home digital release of the film, and courtesy of our friends at Paramount Canada, FilmSpeak is giving the chance to win a BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE PRIZE PACK, including a digital code of the film! Click now for contest details. Contest closes February 27th 2024.
Read MoreDay 7 of SXSW 2024 - consolidation of films and large crowds led me to one of my favorite films of the festival and what might be one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Continue for our Day 7 Recap of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival.
Read MoreDay 6 of SXSW 2024 - I’m barely holding on but managed to get a great documentary, the latest Alex Garland morality piece, and excessively bloody rocketship to hell. Continue for DAY 6 of our 2024 SXSW Film Festival Recap.
Read MoreA late start to Day 5 and I was still able to enjoy a family-friendly day complete with a seafood boil and some Live Action Role Play. Continue for a recap of Day 5 of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival.
Read MoreDay 4 of SXSW began with a good ol’ fashioned tear-jerker and ended with a good ol’ fashioned religious horror with some stunts and blunts in between. Continue for our Day 4 recap of the 2024 SXSW FIlm Festival
Read MoreDay 3 of SXSW 2024 consisted of a four movie marathon at the Paramount Theater and after this I can say that I have seen more interesting ways to present bodily fluids on camera than I would have like to in a lifetime. Continue for our Festival recap.
Read MoreThe winners were announced last night - some have shocked the world, some have upset the world and some were very much expected. Let’s take a look at the lucky and deserving Oscar winners from the past year of film.
Read MoreDay 2 at SXSW started with a buttery blessing in disguise followed by a tear-jerker, a mom comedy, and a teen comedy. Continue for our recap of Day 2 at the SXSW Film Festival.
Read MoreA brief recap of the highlights and films watched on Day 1 of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival including the movies Timestalker and Road House. Continue for our first Festival Diary of 2024.
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