Author: Caitlin Abe Gokool
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Rye Lane
How do you know if someone is “the one”? Not even “the one”, but how can you, in a split second judgement, tell what kind of person someone really is? For Yas in Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane (2023), she says that everyone falls into one of two categories: those who wave back at waving tourists…
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Daisy Jones & The Six
Daisy Jones & The Six is the recently released limited series that has captured BookTok, television, and music lovers alike, based on the 2019 novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising. Premiering over the month of March, audiences were captivated by the story of the fictional…
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Hamilton and Making your Musical Accessible
When Hamilton first graced the Broadway stage with its modern spin on the story of the fairly unknown founding father, the people loved it. The show won 11 Tony Awards in 2016 and is continually hailed as “revolutionary” and “a modern day masterpiece”. With this success, came an almost impossible task of getting tickets to…
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What Makes a Good Plane Movie?
The age-old question: what should I download for my *insert time here* long flight? Definitely not an age-old question, but still one that puzzles me every time I have the privilege of flying somewhere new. In an attempt to find the perfect formula for films to watch on the plane, here are some guidelines, namely…
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Infinity Pool
Branden Cronenberg is back with his latest feature Infinity Pool, and as expected, filled with almost every bodily fluid, blood, violence, and sex. In this latest film, Cronenberg tackles the latest seeming trend in media from last year, commentary on the lives and privileges of the ultra-rich. Infinity Pool follows couple James and Em Foster,…
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To Leslie
It is a shame that To Leslie will go down for most as “that film that Andrea Riseborough was undeservedly nominated for”. Known to may as the film with the most talked about Oscars campaign of 2023, To Leslie follows Leslie, played by Riseborough, 6 years after she has blown all the money she won…
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Pop culture references in film used initially for laughs and commentary can quickly and negatively date a film. Tying the film too strongly to an ever changing moment in time, or making a joke that in just a few short years, or even weeks, won’t be funny any more, it can be difficult to make…
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Brooklyn
This review was written as part of my course on Cinema & Migration, for an assignment to write a 500 word film review discussing how the formal techniques of a chosen film on migration create my impression of the film, and how these technical choices relate to the themes of the film, helping it to…
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I Like Movies
This March, Chandler Levack brings Canadian audiences her official TIFF selection, hilarious, and altogether heartwarming feature-length debut, I Like Movies. The film tells the coming-of-age story of Lawrence, played by Isaiah Lehtinen, a 17-year-old cinephile from Burlington, Ontario, who struggles in his final year of high school in 2003 to discover what his future will…
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Great Freedom
What if, for your whole life, you were told that who you are is wrong. That it is wrong for you to love the people you do. Now, what if you were told that this identity, who you truly are, is not just wrong, but illegal. This continues to be the real-life case for many…
After Screening Cinema 