The Canadian Academy announced this year’s nominees for the 9th annual Canadian Screen Awards. In television, Schitt’s Creek leads with the most nominations with 21. Trickster and Cardinal: Into the Night follow close behind with 15 nods each. APTN is up for six awards, including Best News Anchor, National for Melissa Ridgen and Dennis Ward, Best News or Information […]
The 93rd Academy Awards are coming up soon and, what better way to gear up then by watching this year’s biggest flicks. Here’s how to watch some of the most-anticipated movies of award’s season. Mank (David Fincher), 10 nominations Mank transports you back to 1930s Hollywood, following the story of troubled screenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz as he […]
Despite a global pandemic, the film industry was able to put out a diverse range of flicks in 2020. The 93rd Oscars nominees were announced Monday morning by Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Nick Jonas! Here’s what you need to know. David Fincher’s, Mank, came out ahead with the most nominations at ten. These included Best Picture, Director, Actor […]
The Kingston Canadian Film Festival is powering through the pandemic with an online offering of feature length and short films from Indigenous and Canadian filmmakers from now until March 7, 2021. I decided to pick up a pass and check out a selection of films. I’ll review them throughout the week! Shiva Baby (2020) First up […]
A new study from Ryerson University called “Examining Children’s Animated Television in Canada” has shone a light on the representation of people of colour in this medium in 2018-2019. In the findings, 51% of human characters were white, while 49% were people of colour. Representation has increased though, as the previous study revealed 74% of characters were white. However, […]
This movie sucked. There. You have your TLDR, decision making sentence that may save you the precious 95 minutes of your life that could be spent doing something more productive. Like staring at a wall, or perhaps laying on the cold bare floor. Now, if you only came to read this to find that out, […]
This week Premier Ford introduced new pandemic restriction ‘levels’ and at midnight Ottawa moved into the ‘orange level’. This allows restaurants, bars, gyms and fitness centres to open under restrictions. It also allows movie theaters to open, but most in Ottawa are choosing not to do so. Cineplex and Landmark cinemas have announced they will remain closed despite having the option to reopen under restrictions. According to […]
The National Film Board (NFB) recently introduced a new online feature on their website called The Curve. It’s a collection of approximately 30 projects by more than 40 Canadian artists aimed at telling stories about social distancing across different communities – from East to West and all the way to the North. The projects cover […]
On September 29th, imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts went on Facebook live to share the lineup of Indigenous artists being showcased at the upcoming festival which takes place October 20-25, 2020. For the 21st annual festival, the Executive Director of ImagineNATIVE, Naomi Johnson, has said that the organizers have set out to continue “to present the best in Indigenous stories with the […]
The Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival kicks off Wednesday, September 16th at 5 PM. The opening night will be live-streamed on the Asinabka Festival’s Facebook page. The festival will feature a number of music performances by Handsome Savages on opening night and Brand Henry, Anachnid and Brian Wallin on the following nights. Now in […]