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Another year, another “best of” list. These are the movies that hit me hardest in 2025 — the ones that will stick, formally and emotionally, long into 2026.
I had the chance to sit down with Alexander (Sandy) Carson to talk about Alberta Number One, and it quickly became clear that he is most comfortable marching to the beat of his own drum.
Screening at CUFF.Docs in Calgary this week, Hearse Chasing follows singer-songwriter Cassidy Waring as she comes back to the city she grew up in to unpack a childhood marked by addiction, loss, and unanswered questions.
Lynne Ramsay has long been a major figure in contemporary cinema, and with her latest film, Die My Love, she constructs an intensely subjective portrait of creative and maternal collapse, rendered through a fiercely controlled visual language.
The Tale of Silyan is the latest feature from Tamara Kotevska, whose breakout with Honeyland announced a filmmaker with a rare eye for intimate, lived-in portraits.
Bugonia finds Yorgos Lanthimos doubling down on composition and, in tandem with Director of Photography Robbie Ryan, breaks certain cinematic "rules" to help externalize psychic unease.
Modern Whore is an 80-minute hybrid documentary directed by Nicole Bazuin, which is the latest in a lengthy collaborative relationship with Andrea Werhun, including Modern Whore: A Memoir and two short films.
Rob Grant on This Too Shall Pass: ’80s Vibes, Narration, and Film Influences I sat down with Rob Grant to discuss his latest film, This Too Shall Pass. We chatted about the…
I sat down with Chris ahead of the theatrical release on October 24, 2025, to chat about NEON coming on board, reshoots, VFX, the importance of family, and how the film was shaped by his childhood as a Jehovah’s Witness.
It Was Just an Accident grew directly out of conversations Panahi had with fellow prisoners between 2022 and 2023, and as a result, the film is grounded in both his experience and that of many others held under the Iranian regime.