Cam Maitland

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

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We just came back from the Yukon, where we attended the Yukon Film Society's Available Light Film Festival! Check out our recap for a peek at the films, guests and toe-tally wild parties. 🏔️🍿

A real unique one based on the Giller Prize nominated novel. Fans of SAFE (1995) will want to check this out

Notions of a film being good or bad are largely uninteresting to me when a director reaches the point in their career that an artist like Spike Lee has. When a filmmaker has made this many films it’s usually more prudent to quantify the way he does and doesn’t fit into the cultural landscape, and how he is, or is not, evolving alongside it, or rebelling against it. Lee is one of the most important American artists of his generation, and he’s still on his own wavelength, against the wind, but his centrality within his own aesthetic is worth celebrating. As is his distinct point-of-view, his personality, the way he repeats his prized images, or modifies them only slightly. A Patrick Ewing Jersey has transformed into a Jalen Brunson one, and Larry Bird is still the enemy. Lee remains true to the integrity of what he wants to communicate, even if his communication surrounding certain trends can be read as cringy. In his Akira Kurosawa remix Highest 2 Lowest, he approaches the material with an old-man’s paranoia at what he’s seeing in the modern world, but that anxiety breeds fruitful results of personalization within the text. Denzel Washington plays Y2K-era record producer David King, and the glory days of his Stackin’ Hits record label are behind him. They want him to sell the company to a venture capitalist who sees A.I. as the future, and King gets riled up at the thought, “Hits with no soul! No voice!”, and he’s right to be angry sitting in his office with portraits of geniuses of the craft like Curtis Mayfield, James Brown and Run D.M.C. resting behind him like saints in his church of sound. The money he’s made in the decades since making it big has made his golden ears ring, and he can’t find the hits anymore, and everyone is telling him that the only way forward is liquidation. One last sum of money for all his work, transferred in exchange for the dream he made true. He could ride off into the sunset and listen to the old songs, but something nags at him

a still image from HIGHEST 2 LOWEST of Denzel Washington in a subway car in New York. He's dressed all in black and wearing a yankees cap, diamond stud earring, and black hoodie and black sunglasses

I'm catching up with some films that I didn't review last year. I liked HIGHEST 2 LOWEST & I'm always eager to see Spike Lee add to his canvas

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[shoving yeats into a locker] how’s the gyre fuckass

Calling all Catholics, excommunicated Catholics, lovers of coming-of-age films, and Rosalind Russell fans! ‼️ 😇

The Trouble with Angels (1966) premieres at 9pm ET. Watch On Demand now. hollywoodsuite.ca/whats-on/sch...

God is the original Job creator. One for the Bible fans.

"I know I'll miss him forever" 🤍

We, like so many film lovers, are devastated to hear about the passing of the great Rob Reiner. Thank you for decades of movies that made us laugh and cry, often at the same time.

I'm in this one! And remember, when I call Richard E. Grant "a dessicated scarecrow" in WITHNAIL & I, that's a compliment of the highest order.

More tv directed by lil ol me. Check out A Year in Film's 7th season - imminently on Hollywood Suite.

We're back with a new decade in tow!

A fun one. Whoop whoop

A second McDonald's has hit Spadina

Important gay lore

Kathie from Kids in the Hall wearing a 90s Toronto Blue Jays sweater

If Ohtani tries to give Toronto a bad time just give him one of these.

Wayne & Garth, or Kermit & Fozzie?
YOU DECIDE!! 👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼🐸🐻

Vote for your fave TV-to-movie adaptation now at hollywoodsuite.ca/movie-madness. The winner will be screened (for just $5!!!) at Toronto's Revue Cinema, Charlottetown's Tivoli Cinema and Kamloops Film Society's Paramount Theatre.

A yearly tradition that means so much to me. And on my birthday weekend where all I gotta do is cook squash 🎂🎉

The... Boys?

Can I get a hell yeah?

If you want a great way to set the tone for a spooky day of Halloween crafting I recommend getting an UnExPeCtEd HaNd DeLiVeReD LeTtEr from a lawyer at noon 👻☠️🎃🦇

As a child I was so afraid of the Evil Dead 2 skull I'd run past it at the video store.
As an adult, I can't help but see that this skull has exceptionally kind eyes. Pleading, even? This skeleton needs help and lacks the facial muscles to express it.

Celebrate Indigenous filmmakers like Alanis Obomsawin’s Incident at Restigouche (1984), comedies like The Great Salish Heist (2024), horrors like Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), and coming-of-age stories like Myriam Verreault’s Kuessipan (2019). hollywoodsuite.ca/schedule

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, see the broadcast premiere of Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin’s feature film Angela’s Shadow (2023). 🧡

Watch the award-winning thriller following APTN’s Remembering the Children: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at 7:30pm ET.

Very proud of this episode. Lots of classics and international Cinema to discover

Alejandro Amenábar's Tesis was my original sin when it comes to loving Spanish Cinema, and 29 years later he's at #TIFF50 with El Cautivo (The Captive). It's Big, Classical filmmaking but Amenábar is a Scheherazade worthy of this adventurous slice of Miguel de Cervantes' life.