Tag: horror
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The Darkness of Girlhood in Dust Bunny and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS Dust Bunny and Little Amélie both privilege the full, and often messy, experience of early girlhood, be that trying to determine if you have conjured up a real man-eating monster out of your own rampant imagination, or slowly learning the painful lesson that you are not a Goddess among mere…
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Nothing is Sacred Under Capitalism in Egghead Republic and A Useful Ghost
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS While we live in increasingly weighty and hopeless times, one of cinema’s greatest powers in times like these is to offer moments of hope, of originality, of curiosity, and to remind us of the ongoing potential for change that capitalism works overtime to distract us from. A Useful Ghost and…
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Good Boy(s), Bad Apples, and a Pedagogy of Violence
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS As disturbing as both of these films might be, perhaps it is the very discomfort of seeing the extreme end results of our failing educational system literalized that might compel us to hold our political systems responsible for how they continue to fail the next generation of children. By Tamar…
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The Sixties Scoop and Intergenerational Trauma in Meadowlarks & Blood Lines
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS Meadowlarks and Blood Lines are two deeply personal, intimate examinations of individual and intergenerational traumas stemming from the Sixties Scoop, and are particularly prescient in a cultural moment in which far too many seek to tick off Truth and Reconciliation as a completed project on Canada’s to-do list. By Tamar…
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