Don McKellar Archives

Highway 61 (1991)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 18, 2000Gonzo Road Movie/Pursuit By The Devil

Director Bruce McDonald and writer/star Don McKellar make an hilariously eccentric road movie as McKellar takes a trip down the title route with a dead body while pursued by The Devil

Director: Bruce McDonald

Actors: Don McKellar, Valerie Buhagiar, Earl Pastko, Art Bergmann, …

Category: Fantasy

18 April 20001 November 2025 by Roog

Last Night (1998)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 28, 1999The End of the World

Excellent Canadian-made End of the World film where actor/director Don McKellar eschews lavish big-budget spectacle for a wry, often haunting series of characters studies about how people meet the end

Director: Don McKellar

Actors: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, David Cronenberg, Callum Keith Rennie, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 June 199921 June 2026 by Roog

The Red Violin (1998)

Rating: ★★

Jul 19, 2000Stories of a Cursed Violin

A reasonable arthouse hit, this tells the story of a cursed violin through five different periods of history

Director: Francois Girard

Actors: Jason Flemyng, Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, Greta Scacchi, …

Category: Fantasy

19 July 20006 December 2024 by Roog

eXistenZ (1999)

Rating: ★★½

May 22, 1999Virtual Reality

David Cronenberg tackles Virtual Reality themes in an interestingly mind-bending work. Cronenberg has some interesting takes but this ended up being overshadowed by the phenomenon that was The Matrix the same year

Director: David Cronenberg

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 May 199931 January 2026 by Roog

Blindness (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 17, 2010Plague of Blindness

A hugely underrated film that depicts the brutal collapse of society that occurs when the entire world is affected by a plague that causes blindness. Directed in strong and powerful images

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 April 201025 August 2020 by Roog

Leslie, My Name is Evil (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 18, 2010Manson Family Killings

A film about the Manson Family killings told through the eyes of one of Manson Girls Leslie Van Houten. This becomes a savage and biting indictment of 1960s social morality

Director: Reginald Harkema

Actors: Kristen Hager, Gregory Smith, Ryan Robbins, Tiio Horn, …

Category: Horror

18 April 20103 June 2026 by Roog

Zoom (2015)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 9, 2017Series of Nested Meta-Fictional Tales

This nominally tells three slice-of-life tales but in each the principal character is creating a book or film about one of the other characters. This becomes a meta-fiction of considerable cleverness as we see how the problems of one character end up reflected in the other character's story

Director: Pedro Morelli

Actors: Alison Pill, Gael Garcia Bernal, Tyler Labine, Michael Eklund, …

Category: Fantasy

9 December 201731 August 2020 by Roog

Crimes of the Future (2022)

Rating: ★★★★★

Jul 2, 2022Future Surgical Experiments

A 79 year-old David Cronenberg returns with one of his best films, a synthesis of his major themes in an extraordinary and perverse look at a future where surgery has become performance art. This site's best film of 2022.

Director: David Cronenberg

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 July 20223 October 2025 by Roog