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Category: Film Review

Seguridad: A Poignant Exploration of Cuban Memory and the Father Figure in Canadian Diasporic Cinema

October 9, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura In the tradition of Canadian diasporic first-person films, filmmakers often delve into their experiences of exile and…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Alucine, Canada, Cuba, documentary, Hudson Moura

Joker: Folie à Deux — A Dark Deception of Fantasy, Madness, and the Nature of Villainy

October 7, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura What has always struck me about the character in Joker (2019) is his unrelenting charisma in inspiring…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Hudson Moura
Soldier in a front of a tank

Russians at War by Anastasia Trofimova: Propaganda or Complex Portrait of Soldiers in Conflict?

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by Hudson Moura (Professor of Politics & Film at the Toronto Metropolitan University and Film Commentator for Radio Canada) The…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, TIFF-Toronto International Film Festival Filed under: Hudson Moura

The Substance by Coralie Fargeat: A Haunting Critique of Beauty and Aging through Horror

October 6, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura The Substance tells the story of Elizabeth Sparkle, a former TV star who rose to fame through her…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, TIFF-Toronto International Film Festival Filed under: Hudson Moura

Kinds of Kindness: Yorgos Lanthimos Explores Power and Human Complexity in a Striking Triptych

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by Hudson Moura Yorgos Lanthimos continues to push the boundaries of cinema with Kinds of Kindness, a strikingly original and thought-provoking…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Hudson Moura
Still from the film Monkey Man by Dev Patel

Dissonant Storytelling: Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ and Its Over-the-Top Turmoil

October 5, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Monkey Man, directed by and starring Dev Patel, is a film that seeks to meld the gritty…

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Posted in: Film Review, India Filed under: Hudson Moura
The poster for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire shows the main characters in red Ghostbusters uniforms, holding proton packs with energy beams. They stand above the Ecto-1 car, driving through an icy landscape with jagged ice formations. A stormy sky looms in the background, and the ghost Slimer appears among them. The poster suggests an action-packed, supernatural adventure.

Spirits of the Past: Unpacking ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’

March 21, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura *spoilers alert Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire emerges as a cinematic jewel, steeped in the nostalgia of the 1980s…

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Posted in: Film Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

Film Analysis: Emotion and Conflict

February 23, 2021 hudmoura

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Analysis, Film Review, Media & Politics, Philosophy & Film, Politics & Film, Reflections, Review Filed under: Film

Intermedias Review

October 9, 2019 hudmoura

Media, Art, and Culture ISSN 1918-4026 Intermedias Review is an independent publication based on reviews of art, media, and their interconnections. We…

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Posted in: Art Review, Book Review, Brazilian Cinema, Brazilian Literature, Brazilian Theatre, Essay, Film Review, Interview, Media & Politics, Philosophy & Film, Politics & Film, Portuguese Literature, Review, Screening & Debate

Getúlio Vargas and the man who killed him

October 14, 2015 hudmoura

by Kelsey Cunningham On December 3rd, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese will present a screening of the film Getúlio at the…

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Posted in: Book Review, Brazilian Cinema, Brazilian Literature, Film Review Filed under: Brazilian History, Brazilian Literature, Getúlio Vargas, Kelsey Cunningham

Sleepwalking Land: The liberating power of dreams and stories

October 14, 2014 hudmoura

by Kelsey Cunningham Sleepwalking Land directed by Teresa Prata (Terra Sonâmbula, Portugal/Mozambique, 2007), shows the viewer the necessity of stories and…

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Posted in: Book Review, Film Review, Luso-Africa Filed under: Kelsey Cunningham, Mia Couto, Teresa Prata

The Girl Under Glass

October 3, 2012 hudmoura

by Willis Wong Shot almost entirely in the vast expanses of the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Postcards follows the wandering…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

Survival of the Stylish

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By Willis Wong The 18th century island mansion in The Capsule is as much a character as are the women…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

Three Lives and One Murder in 300 Minutes

October 29, 2011 hudmoura

by Athena Wong What do you get when you watch three 90-minute features played back to back with two 15-minute…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Talk To The Hand

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by Willis Wong Despite a children’s puppet show being the premise of this mockumentary, this is definitely not one for…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

Kicks and Kink

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by Willis Wong With its bloody ultraviolence, sexual hijinks and saturated comic book palette, Bikini is a hentai (Japanese for…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

When Global Affects the Local

October 15, 2011 hudmoura

There Once was an Island: Te henua e nnoho is a beautifully shot documentary about the Takū people in Papua…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Wenders’ Pina Bausch in 3D

October 12, 2011 hudmoura

Using one form of art – film – to celebrate one’s achievements in another art form – dance, Pina 3D…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

The Kite Line That Binds

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Uttarayana is the day the sun travels north, indicating that summer would soon arrive. People in India celebrate by flying…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Sibling Rivalries

October 11, 2011 hudmoura

In the third film from director Carl Bessai’s series on familial relationships, Sisters & Brothers shares with us the confrontations…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Athena Wong

Animation Nation

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Curated based on the quality of submissions, the shorts are wonderfully varied in style and technique. Advanced Cybernetics (Steven Day,…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Review Filed under: Willis Wong

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What makes the film compelling is precisely this tonal balance. It never …

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April 3, 2026Fantasy Life: A Woody Allen Type for an Age of Anxiety
Fantasy Life is an imperfect but charming film, shaped by an appealing central …
March 31, 2026Zendaya and Pattinson in The Drama: Can Love Start Over?
What makes the film compelling is precisely this tonal balance. It never …
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