Justine Peres Smith

Today, Montreal recorded the earliest -20 of the winter season since 2008 Montreal broke a winter-cold record today with the winter season's earliest temperature reading of -20 degrees since 2008.

Today, Montreal recorded the earliest -20 of the winter season since 2008

Last year, the temperature in Montreal didn’t reach the -20 mark all winter.

Rachel Kushner coming for some of you

The Secret Agent applies spy tropes and magic realism to the story of a resistance to dictatorship An interview with actor Wagner Moura and director Kleber Mendonça Filho about their work on The Secret Agent, one of the best films of 2025.

For @cultmtl.com I spoke with Wagner Moura and Kleber Mendonça Filho about one of my favourite films of the year, The Secret Agent cultmtl.com/2025/12/the-...

The memory of the mass femicide at Polytechnique is still painful.

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, where 14 women — students at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique — lost their lives in a mass shooting motivated by misogyny.

#December6

Reading poetry regularly has been maybe the only positive thing to happen to me in 2025

Always Trying to Get Beyond the Veil: An Interview with Abel Ferrara Abel Ferrara recently spoke with Bright Wall/Dark Room from Rome about his new memoir, Scene, his films, and his life as an artist.

Always Trying to Get Beyond the Veil: An Interview with Abel Ferrara

It's actually really tough to build a new online following as I've now "matured" enough not to fully crash out on social media.

it's really striking, and I do find it has such a remarkable lingering effect. I wasn't sure as I was watching what I thought of it, but I appreciate it more and more with each passing day

Best first time watches November 2025

Silvestre
Act of Violence
Nostos: The Return
Voci nel tempo
Face/Off
My favourite Wife
Ganja & Hess
King Lear
Yearning
Baise Moi

The Secret Agent applies spy tropes and magic realism to the story of a resistance to dictatorship An interview with actor Wagner Moura and director Kleber Mendonça Filho about their work on The Secret Agent, one of the best films of 2025.

For @cultmtl.com I spoke with Wagner Moura and Kleber Mendonça Filho about one of my favourite films of the year, The Secret Agent cultmtl.com/2025/12/the-...

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I happy

Our December issue features Canadian art-pop/darkwave/electronic artist Austra, who works out heartbreak on the dancefloor on her acclaimed new album Chin Up Buttercup.

Explore the complete issue in print and online.

cultmtl.com/magazine/

Hey NYC, A Grand Mockery is playing next week at Spectacle. One of my favourite discoveries of the year and one of the co-directors, Adam C. Briggs will be there to present. A truly unnerving work of underground cinema with a lot of humour. Shot on 8mm. www.spectacletheater.com/a-grand-mock...

Hey NYC, A Grand Mockery is playing next week at Spectacle. One of my favourite discoveries of the year and one of the co-directors, Adam C. Briggs will be there to present. A truly unnerving work of underground cinema with a lot of humour. Shot on 8mm. www.spectacletheater.com/a-grand-mock...

Quebec unions file legal challenge against Legault government over labour law to end strikes Five Quebec unions joined forces to file a legal challenge against the Legault government over its new labour law to end strikes.

Quebec unions file legal challenge against Legault government over labour law to end strikes

#polqc

A Portuguese evening

Best Mac and Cheese in Montreal As voted by our readers in the 2025 Best of MTL readers poll, the best mac and cheese in Montreal can be found at Nouveau Palais, Burgundy Lion, Taverne Sur Le Square, Jukebox Burgers and Nouveau Pala...

Best Mac and Cheese in Montreal ♥️

Chloé Zhao's Hamnet is filled with passion, beauty and melodrama that leaves audiences weeping Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet is a fictionalized telling of the inspiration behind William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, starring Paul Mescal & Jessie Buckley.

#Hamnet is filled with passion, beauty & melodrama that leaves audiences weeping

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5 | @redroomrantings.bsky.social

"Chloé Zhao’s talent as a filmmaker reflects the legacy of great Hollywood cinema — finding power in every word, in every glance, and in the wind moving through the trees."

I received some really nice feedback for this interview with Fran Rubel Kuzui earlier this year. If you’re interested in checking out TOKYO POP, it’s among the many great titles considerably reduced in @terracottadist.bsky.social’s Black Friday sale until 1 Dec

www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/f...

Gaza photojournalist Fatma Hassona was bombed by Israel following news of this film The documentary that had its world premiere at Cannes tells a personal story of resilience and horror in Gaza

"Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is an essential document, showcasing an artist and telling a story of resilience and horror."

⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5 | @redroomrantings.bsky.social

Gaza photojournalist Fatma Hassona was bombed by Israel following news of this film

#PutYourSoulOnYourHandAndWalk

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Portugal outside and inside

Devoting my time love and attention to watching good cinema

Montreal's Le Violon, Pasta Pooks named among top 10 best new restaurants in Canada Air Canada has released a top 10 list of the best new restaurants in Canada, and it includes Montreal's Le Violon and Pasta Pooks.

Montreal’s Le Violon, Pasta Pooks named among top 10 best new restaurants in Canada

Director Sofia Bohdanowicz on her new film Measures for a Funeral, partly made in Montreal An interview with Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz about her new film Measures for a Funeral, partly shot in Montreal.

Director Sofia Bohdanowicz on her new film Measures for a Funeral, partly made in Montreal

Forever and ever

Cheese really is the most beautiful thing humanity ever created

I actually don’t mind, it’s a powerfully inspiring pain. I hear the rain