Canada has quietly produced some of cinema's most unsettling work, with directors like David Cronenberg redefining body horror from Toronto outward. His 1979 film The Brood is a fine example of that distinctly Canadian unease sitting beneath a genre surface. See what Macca made of that and more below.
Rating: 2.0★
The "stranded together" romantic comedy has been a reliable staple of popular entertainment for decades, from classic screwball pictures right through to the wave of made-for-television romances that now dominate streaming schedules at the weekend. Lost in Paradise (2026) slots neatly into that tradition: a fashion
Rating: 3.0★
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel has had a longer life on screen than almost any other work of fiction. From James Whale's definitive 1931 Universal production through to Kenneth Branagh's sodden, overwrought 1994 version, Frankenstein has been pulled in just about every conceivable direction: camp,
Rating: 3.5★
Canada and Pakistan make for an unusual co-production pairing, but The Queen of My Dreams (2023) earns that combination honestly. The film sits at the crossroads of a Pakistani immigrant experience and a rural Canadian coming-of-age story, using the sudden death of a father as the catalyst
Rating: 2.5★
There is something genuinely bittersweet about the video rental shop as a cultural relic. For anyone who grew up in Britain or Ireland during the 1980s and early 1990s, the local video store was a kind of temple, its back shelves lined with lurid VHS covers promising monsters, mayhem, and
Rating: 2.0★
The zombie film has always been something of a canvas for social commentary, from George Romero's consumerist malls to the viral-panic anxieties that coursed through the early 2000s wave of fast-infected pictures. By 2025, the genre has been thoroughly charted: audiences know the beats, the archetypes,
Genre Animation
★★ — History of the World in Three Minutes Flat (1980)
Genre Action
★★ — Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Genre Action
★★★ — Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Genre Action
★ — Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Genre Horror
★★★ — Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Genre Horror
★★★ — The Brood (1979)
Genre Documentary
★★★ — S4: The Bob Lazar Story (2026)
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