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1 week ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL
Probably the first Airdrop horror movie, Drop takes place almost exclusively in an upscale restaurant located in a Chicago high-rise. After suffering intimate partner violence that resulted in the death of her ex-husband, Violet (Meghann Fahy) is finally ready to get out and date again. Reluctantly, she leaves her young son with her sister and heads out to meet a charming moustached photographer she’s been talking to for months on a dating app.
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2 weeks ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL |Matthew Renfrew
The Amateur, the latest murdered-wife revenge thriller, reimagines the genre by asking the question, “What if the husband wasn’t a cold-blooded killer?” Hardly innovative but occasionally refreshing, the film often finds itself pulled between two worlds: an introspective examination of grief and the big boom clichés of contemporary action cinema.
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3 weeks ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Matthew Renfrew
One of the strangest films of the past year, Miséricorde has a probing tone. The latest film from the great French filmmaker Alain Guirandie follows the return of Jérémie to his hometown for an old friend’s funeral. The town is damp and wet, overflowing with odd characters. What was supposed to be a brief stay is continually extended as Jérémie finds himself lost in the slow, sensual rhythms of grief and small-town living.
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3 weeks ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL |Matthew Renfrew
One of our greatest working filmmakers, Portugal’s Miguel Gomes, captures a sense of dreaming in his films. With his latest, Grand Tour, which won him the Best Director prize at the Cannes film festival, he tells an epic love story that spans the Asian continent. Blurring the line between eras, locales and documentary, he creates a hybrid account of an absurdist love story turned tragedy.
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1 month ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL |Clay Sandhu
In 2011, Chester Brown released Paying for It, a memoir-manifesto about sex work. Told from his perspective, the film follows his non-traditional relationship with sex and relationships following a breakup with his long-term girlfriend Sook-Yin Lee. After two years of celibacy, he turned to sex workers and found both intimacy and solace.
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1 month ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL |Matthew Renfrew
The challenge in adapting popular Disney animated films into “live-action” spectacles is two-fold: how do you bring to life the unlimited possibilities and artistry of animation to the real world and, at least in the case of Snow White, how do you update a nearly century old film for a new audience. Despite what some unhealthily invested adults may want you to believe, let’s not forget these movies are fundamentally intended for children.
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1 month ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL
There’s an innate pleasure to diving into a Steven Soderbergh film. Prolific and unpredictable, Soderbergh remains the last true experimenter working within the mainstream American system. In just a few short months, he’s able to deliver a ghost story told from the point of view of the phantom with Presence, and also a spy thriller that doubles as a metaphor for marriage with Black Bag. Black Bag stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as a married couple who both work for a British spy agency.
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1 month ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL |Matthew Renfrew
The thrill of F1 racing has only grown in popularity in the past decade. Thanks to stars like Lewis Hamilton and the popular Netflix series Drive to Survive, Formula One racing has found an all new audience that transcends class and age. Director Joseph Kosinski — who helped save cinema from the effects of the pandemic with Top Gun: Maverick in 2022 — has been tasked with bringing the thrill and intrigue of the sport to the big screen with the upcoming film F1.
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1 month ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL |Matthew Renfrew
No one works harder than Steven Soderbergh, who is already releasing his second film of 2025 with Black Bag (March 14). Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star in this spy thriller about an intelligence agent forced to choose between his wife and his country. The film is based on a screenplay from blockbuster maverick David Koepp, best known for penning Spider-Man (2002), Jurassic Park, the first Mission: Impossible and recent Soderbergh films Presence and Kimi.
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1 month ago | 
cultmtl.com | Justine Smith |Carb Queen |Cult MTL
If last year’s hand-wringing over Jonathan Glazer’s mild condemnation of the genocide in Palestine proved anything, it was that a little goes a long way in terms of political activism at the Academy Awards.
