Freeze Frame film festival highlights youth cinema
Freeze Frame International Film Festival for Kids of All Ages, an annual festival in Winnipeg, is about to mark its 30th anniversary. Taking place at…
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A coming-of-age story, but about a mother
Parents always want the best for their children, but they may not always know what their children need — this is the lesson of The…
Isiah Medina’s Gangsterism to be screened in Winnipeg
Gangsterism, Winnipeg-born filmmaker Isiah Medina’s fifth feature film, is hitting the screen this week at the Dave Barber Cinematheque. The film follows Clem, a filmmaker…
Performing masculinity on a vintage talk show stage
Gislina Patterson and Dasha Plett are the two self-described transsexual artists behind We Quit Theatre, a performance collaboration based in Winnipeg. On Feb. 6, 13…
A review of 100 Nights of Hero
Director Julia Jackman’s 2025 film 100 Nights of Hero was released in Canada last month. It follows the newlywed Cherry and her close housemaid, Hero,…
Bees, brainwashing, Bugonia
When I walked into the theatre on a Tuesday afternoon to see Bugonia, I was not sure if I was going into a science fiction…
Goodbye, Hawkins
It has been nine years since the first season of Stranger Things turned the world upside down in 2016. Now the series is finally coming…
The feelings films leave behind
For Brenda Austin-Smith, a professor in the department of English, theatre, film & media at the U of M, the power of cinema has always…
A review of Hal Harley’s The Unbelievable Truth
Last week, Dave Barber Cinematheque screened the 1989 dark romantic comedy The Unbelievable Truth, directed by American filmmaker Hal Hartley. The first film in Hartley’s…
The Long Walk as gut-wrenching on screen as on paper
After languishing in development hell since 1988, Stephen King’s 1979 dystopian novel The Long Walk has finally made it to the big screen – and…