SCREEN | 'His Three Daughters' Get Along on Netflix

"It's good that there are three of you."

High Frequency Entertainment

His Three Daughters, New York filmmaker Azazel Jacobs' powerful single-location sibling drama, is an astounding piece of character work set within the confines of a compact Manhattan apartment. Starring Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen as estranged sisters, who struggle to get along, staying together in their dying father's home as they await his imminent death from cancer.

VIFF 2024 | 10 Most Anticipated Films (You Should See)

"VIFF is an overflowing, multidimensional, full-tilt celebration of film and film culture."

Image | Zak Design Studio

VIFF 2024—(August 28, 2024) Embrace the movies for the city's eleven-day arthouse cinematic celebration when the 43rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival starts at the end of the month. Plan ahead for VIFF's smörgåsbord of multimedia entertainment offerings as hundreds of films from across the continent and world are screened in recognition of contemporary cinema.

SCREEN | Living Hilariously 'Rent Free' x VQFF 2024

"The plan is simple. We stay out of people’s hair and do favours for them if they ask."

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Rent Free, Austin-based filmmaker Fernando Andrés' lo-fi observational comedy, has the perfect indie movie premise of two twentysomething down-on-their-luck friends (one gay, one straight) couch surfing at various friends' homes for as long as they'll have them to save up money and avoid growing up or transitioning to the next phases of post-college adulthood.

VIFF 2024 | Redesigning 'Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story'

"Too often people think design is the superficial details."

Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF 2024—Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker Jason Cohn explores the legacy of the famed industrial designer behind the corporate ideals of the mid-century modern movement in Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story. As a result of delving into the life and work of the influential architect, the film explains the post-war birth and historical context of contemporary American branding.

SCREEN | Watching the 'Watchmen: Chapter I' in Animation

"We're society's only protection!"

Warner Bros. Animation / DC Studios

DC's latest animated Watchmen adaptation, based on the groundbreaking 1986 graphic novel, takes its time faithfully translating another deconstruction of superhero storytelling nearly forty years after its initial publication. Watchmen: Chapter I, the first installment of a two-part release, features plenty of moody animation directed by veteran animator Brandon Vietti, who fleshes out the central murder mystery stylishly.

SCREEN | Jason Schwartzman Worships 'Between the Temples'

"Can we have a shotgun bar mitzvah?"

Sony Pictures Classics / Mongrel Media

New York filmmaker Nathan Silver directs the fun lo-fi Jewish indie comedy, Between the Temples, about two widowers of different life stages who find themselves strangely drawn to each other through their connection to their temple. It stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane as Ben and Carla, a cantor amid a personal crisis of faith of his own while haphazardly navigating the dating scene and his new adult bat mitzvah student who also happens to be his childhood music teacher.

GENRE | Don't 'Blink Twice' – Channing Tatum Seduces

"Blink twice if I'm in danger."

Amazon MGM Studios / Warner Bros. Pictures

Talented actress Zoë Kravitz, daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, makes her ambitious directorial debut in the sinister psychological thriller, Blink Twice (originally titled Pussy Island), doubling as a disorienting contemporary "eat the rich" critique of abusive power in the vein of recent genre films like The Menu or Get Out meets Glass Onion. Exploring issues of sexual violence against women and the performative nature of cancel culture, her single-location film wraps itself in atmospheric horror genre conventions to express some dark material about the casual evil of men.

SCREEN | Camping Out – 'Good One' Unpacks Drama

"Do you want me to try?"

Metrograph Pictures / LevelFilm

Good One, first-time writer/director India Donaldson's gripping debut feature film, unpacks a quietly harrowing father/daughter indie drama set on a tense backpacking camping trip in the Catskills alongside the parent's troublesome best friend. It balances a complex lead performance by transfixing newcomer Lily Collias, who is sensational, with an effortless sense of discomfort of transitional power to engage viewers.

REEL | After the Boy of Summer Has Gone – 'Dìdi' Kickflips Out

"You're pretty cute for an Asian boy."

Focus Features / Antigravity Academy

Set in the recent past of the summer of 2008 in the Bay Area, Oscar-nominated Taiwanese-American first-time feature filmmaker Sean Wang takes his own experiences growing up to tell a tender coming-of-age story in Dìdi (弟弟, aka "little brother" in Mandarin). His small-scale, semi-autobiographical indie drama is rich with details of its time period featuring juvenile humour about friendship, crushes, and fitting as the son of an immigrant mother.