Tuner: Movie Review

Capitalism and consumerism, trauma and redemption, and Leo Woodall in a career-best performance.

Tuner is a smash hit. And I hope that sentence remains true in the box office sense, it deserves to and has the potential to bring audiences to the theater. With an original story and thoroughly entertaining (and unique) characters, Tuner quietly (and sometimes very loudly) packs a punch. It touches on capitalism and consumerism, trauma and redemption, and it doesn’t need to go deeper because it has a full plot and confidence in its complete approach.		2025 Directed by: Daniel Roher Screenplay by: Daniel Roher, Robert Ramsey Starring: Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, and Havana Rose Liu

At the Place of Ghosts: Movie Review

Real trauma, supernatural beliefs, beautifully realized.

Fantasy horror movies can be a tough sell, mostly because it’s nonsense by definition, but each now and then one comes along because it makes it about something else. The fantasy elements are rooted in real beliefs, and the horror elements are just how it’s presented, leaving you with a rather compelling story steeped in atmosphere and indigenous mythology.		2025 Directed by: Bretten Hannam Screenplay by: Bretten Hannam Starring: Blake Alec Miranda, Forrest Goodluck

Middle Life: Movie Review

A loud, brash, bizarre rom-com.

Middle Life is a mid-life crisis rom-com from Canadian filmmaker Pavan Moondi. Andie (Leah Fay Goldstein) is in her mid-30s, married, has a baby at home and is struggling to get back to work as a wedding planner. She doesn’t like work much anymore but that’s because she’s not busy after having taken off more than a year to have and raise her baby. She doesn’t like her husband much anymore since the baby didn’t seem to disrupt his life the way it did hers. She’s not happy so she’s just going to sit around a complain instead of changing anything.		2025 Directed by: Pavan Moondi Screenplay by: Pavan Moondi Starring: Leah Fay Goldstein, Peter Dreimanis