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The latest film from Bruce Sweeney is another comedic look at the ways relationships, family and neuroses often interlock. In Kingsway, Matt (Jeff Gladstone) is a professor who is prone to bouts ...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/09/10/tiff-2018-kingsway/

Marie-Claire (Brigitte Poupart) loves and is committed to her husband but has no interest in depriving herself of sexual pleasure. Her husband understands that she has affairs, however, he would ...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/09/08/tiff-2018-les-salopes-or-the-naturally-wanton-pleasure-of-sin/

The YPJ-Women’s Protection Unit, a division of the Kurdish resistance against ISIS, has been a key element in the war against terror since their inception five years ago. Unlike some of their m...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/04/28/hot-docs-2018-commander-arian-a-story-of-women-war-and-freedom/

Tim Wardle’s thrilling stranger-than-fiction documentary Three Identical Strangers starts off wearing the mask of a traditional feel good tale. In 1980s New York, three teenagers, Bobby, Eddy a...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/04/23/hot-docs-2018-three-identical-strangers/

After a lengthy run on the festival circuit, Dome Karukoski’s film Tom of Finland is getting a limited run in Toronto. The film explores the life and work of artist Touko Laaksonen, better know...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/02/24/tom-of-finland/

An enjoyable twist on the murder mystery genre, Game Night takes a simple premise and turns it into anything but. A small group of friends, shockingly, enjoy game nights. Of course, this particul...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/02/24/game-night/

Staying together for the kid is never a good idea. It is equally problematic when you are in the process of a divorce and have no clue what to do with the kid. This is the situation that Boris (A...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/02/23/loveless/

To call Black Panther a remarkable piece of filmmaking would be an understatement. It is unlike any other blockbuster, superhero or otherwise, to ever hit the big screen. Ryan Coogler’s film is...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/02/18/black-panther/

Shoe shiners: at the airport, a busy subway station, a kiosk in your local mall, even on the street corner. There they are, every day, providing a service to the people walking by. Yet this humbl...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/02/17/shiners/

The three Palestinian women in Maysaloun Hamoud’s feature debut In Between share a small apartment in Tel Aviv, but what confines them is the world at large. They are vastly different personali...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/02/16/in-between/

Poop. Everybody does it; polite people don’t talk about it. Poop Talk features very few polite people. Make no mistake, Poop Talk is a documentary but it will not enlighten you or educate you. ...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/02/15/poop-talk/

Darren Curtis’ solo directorial debut Boost is a thrilling piece of cinema from beginning to end. Crackling with energy and tension, the film weaves a stunning and intricate tableau of friendsh...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2018/02/14/tbff-2018-boost/