The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Jul 25, 2004Kitsch Surrealism
The best budgeted of Guy Maddin's films, a renaissance of his familiar kitsch surrealism and silent movie homages
Ontario Creates
Random Acts of Violence (2019)
Aug 21, 2020Comic-Book Artist Imitated by a Serial Killer
Actor Jay Baruchel directs a film in which a comic-book artist bases a graphic novel on a true-life serial killer only to find that the killer has returned and is imitating his work
Code 8 (2019)
Sep 13, 2021Superpowered Heist Film
One of the few original, non-comic book based superhero films of the 2010s set in a world where those with powers are treated as a minority. This is essentially a heist film but with the addition of super-powers
Anything for Jackson (2020)
Feb 18, 2022Elderly Devil Worshippers Imprison a Pregnant Woman
Unexpectedly excellent film where an elderly Satanist couple abduct a pregnant woman in order to incarnate their grandson in her unborn child. This deflates the cliches in a series of alternately funny and wild twists
Crimes of the Future (2022)
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.
Simulant (2023)
Apr 28, 2024Rogue Androids
Another in the spate of recent A.I. films of the 2010s/20s. Here one can buy android replacements for one’s late spouse but someone is hacking and causing them to go rogue
Humane (2024)
May 10, 2024Future Euthanasia
David Cronenberg’s daughter Caitlin makes her directorial debut with a film set around a family dinner in a future where the world has decided to euthanize the world population by twenty percent
The Shrouds (2024)
Jun 21, 2025Grave Camera Technology
At age 81, David Cronenberg is still on great form with this perversely fascinating work about the development of a technology that places cameras inside graves to observe corpses as they decay
The Invisibles (2024)
Jan 18, 2026Man Fades Away
This has an intriguingly original concept where milquetoast Tim Blake Nelson wakes up to find he has faded away and become invisible to other people - and then finds a secret world of other similar Invisibles
Deathstalker (2025)
Jan 2, 2026Sword and Sorcery
A remake of the popular 1980s sword and sorcery film that was originally produced by Roger Corman. This version is directed by makeup effects artist Steven Kostanski who fills it with an amazing range of creature effects
The Dogs (2025)
Apr 20, 2026Ghost Story
Canadian actress Valerie Buhagiar directs a film about a mother and son fleeing an abusive relationship. The surprise is beyond the film’s arthouse ambitions is that it is a regular ghost story