The Order was one of the biggest surprises of AFF for me. I went into it with no expectations, not really knowing anything about it. What I got was one of the tightest crime dramas of the year so far. Of director Justin Kurzelās previous work, Iād only seen his gritty, brooding adaptation of Macbeth,…
The Beldham opens with a title card, informing us of the meaning of its title: āBeldhamā (alternatively spelled ābeldamā)āan old woman; a witch. It immediately clues us in to what kind of monster we may be dealing with in this indie horror gem. Directed by Angela Gulner in her feature debut, the movie follows Harper…
If you havenāt been checking in with us lately, weāve been covering the 28th Fantasia Film Festival here in Montreal! The festival ran from July 18th until August 4th, 2024 and included everything from screenings to workshops to book launches. Overall, there were more than 125 features and 200 shorts shown throughout the festival. In…
Well, it looks like Fantasia saved the best for last! We closed out the festival this year with Oddity, a new horror movie from writer-director Damian McCarthy (Caveat) that I’m hoping blows up as much as Longlegs did. It’s deserving of all the hype Longlegs had and then some. I havenāt felt this much palpable…
Azrael, directed by E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills) and written by Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest), is the most hard-hitting movie Iāve seen at Fantasia so far, and it was one of my most-anticipated, too, solely because I saw the words āpost-apocalypticā and āSamara Weavingā in its plot summary. I didnāt need to know anything…
If youāve read Sheaās roundup of Dune: Part Two in every format, you might have gathered that weāre not the biggest proponents of the more gimmicky formats offered by theatres these days over here at Screen Love Affair. Personally, I find most of them to be unnecessary and distracting. I actively dislike gimmicks like 3D,…
I went into Cuckoo with as little knowledge about it as possible, only really knowing that it starred Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, and what a wild ride it was! Cuckoo first premiered at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, but Shea and I were lucky enough to catch it for its…
Weāre kicking off the Fantasia International Film Festival with a self-described ātransgender holiday film,ā directed and co-written by Alice Maio Mackay. Thereās nothing like a good Christmas slasher in the middle of a humid Montreal July to offer a little bit of escapism. Carnage for Christmas is the first film in Fantasiaās āUndergroundā lineup in…
Sports have never really been my thing, but I’ve always loved tennis. Iāve been watching it since I was about 11 years old, and though I donāt follow it religiously these days, it still holds a special place in my heart. So when I heard that Luca Guadagnino was making a sexy tennis movie starring…
If youāre one of the few people, myself included, who watched and loved Rose Glassās debut, Saint Maud, then you might have some idea of what youāre walking into with her sophomore feature Love Lies Bleeding. But this is also a very different movie. For one, it isnāt a horror movie (or is it?). Itās…