
Centuries ago, the monks of the Cult of the Blood Symbol went searching for their “chosen one” whose blood, they believed, would make them immortal. Read More »
Tag Archives: Canada
The Claim (2000) Michael Winterbottom, Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Drama, Romance, Western

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Read More »
The Safety of Objects (2001) Rose Troche, Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Mary Kay Place, Drama

A series of overlapping stories about four suburban families dealing with different maladies. Read More »
So Faraway and Blue (2001) Roy Cross, Nicole Eliopoulos, Daniel Richard Giverin, Julie Ménard, Drama

Julie, our narrator and guide, is a young woman whose father left her when she was young and whose mother recently threw her out of the house because she reminded her too much of him. Read More »
The Trap (1966) Sidney Hayers, Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western

A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
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Varian’s War (2001) Lionel Chetwynd, William Hurt, Julia Ormond, Matt Craven, Drama, War

After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry Read More »
Liste noire / Black List (1995) Jean-Marc Vallée, Michel Côté, Geneviève Brouillette, Sylvie Bourque, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir

At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. Read More »
The Five Senses (1999) Jeremy Podeswa, Molly Parker, Gabrielle Rose, Elize Frances Stolk, Comedy, Drama, Music

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman Read More »
Death Weekend (1976) William Fruet, Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Horror, Thriller

Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. Read More »
Why We Fight (2005) Eugene Jarecki, Gore Vidal, John McCain, Ken Adelman, Documentary, History, War

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Read More »