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Hot Docs 2025: 'The Track' Tracks Bosnia's Challenges to Rebuild

Directed by Ryan Sidhoo

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2025

During a scene in The Track set at Calgary's Junior Luge World Cup in 2018, the camera pauses briefly on a poster detailing the story of...

Hot Docs 2025: 'Agatha's Almanac' Aesthetically Captures Cottagecore Canadian

Directed by Amalie Atkins

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2025

It's nice to imagine a world where everyone is celebrated with a documentary like 'Agatha's Almanac' — a tender tribute to the humble life...

'Sinners' Goes Deeper Than Film

Directed by Ryan Coogler

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2025

Sinners is Ryan Coogler's first big studio film not based on any pre-existing IP, and the fact that the film features twin brothers who ret...

Nathan Fielder Has Been Rehearsing His Whole Career for 'The Rehearsal' Season 2

Created by Nathan Fielder

PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2025

For the past 15 or so years, Nathan Fielder has had one of the most captivating trajectories in comedy. From deadpan stints on...

Mount Eerie Came to Toronto to "Squash the Beef" Between the US and Canada, and to Remind Us That Countries Suck

The Concert Hall, April 15

PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2025

Phil Elverum has spent much of his career awestruck by the natural world, writing album after album about the soggy majesty of the Pacific...

caroline and Caroline Polachek's Questions Are the Answer on "Tell me I never knew that"

Exclaim! Staff Picks

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2025

Welcome to Carolineception. Perhaps inevitably, UK rock collective caroline have joined forces with the inimitable Caroline Polachek for...

'Black Mirror' Season 7 Is Some Tasty Slop from the Netflix Trough

Created By Charlie Brooker

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2025

Many of us assumed that 'Black Mirror' ending its sixth season with an episode surrounding a supernatural demon in 1979 marked the show's...

Julien Baker & TORRES Harness the Achy-Breaky Spirit of Country on 'Send a Prayer My Way'

PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2025

If you didn't know any better, you might assume TORRES (a.k.a. Mackenzie Scott) and Julien Baker's new album, 'Send a Prayer My Way,' was...