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Finding Emily is a light-hearted rom-com with little else to sink your teeth into

Owen (Spike Feam) is a bit of a sad sack romantic perpetually being dumped by his “true love”. With hearts still in his eyes and an ever hopeful view of love, he’s struck dumb by a woman at a club one night and after a heady time talking about nothing and flirting their hearts out, he got her phone number. He barely catches her first name (Emily of course) and that she goes to Manchester U as friends dragged her off into the night. He tried calling the next day, but the number was one digit short and so began the search for Emily. Desperate to find any clue to her identity after many failed attempts, he finds psychology major Emily (Angourie Rice) who is not the one he seeks but vows to help him none the less while hiding an agenda of her own.

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So was it worth the fuss to create a live action Moana?

If you haven’t seen the animated version of the film, watching the live action remake wouldn’t be the worst way to introduce yourself to the story, but renting the animated version would probably get you about the same amount of joy. That being said, if this is your story, if they’re portraying your ancestors or if you feel connected to the people on the screen, then the live action film has a stronger sense of that simply because it uses human actors. You do feel more of a connection as a human to the story simply because of that fact.

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SIFF 2026: Deadline

In this near-future drama children in an upper crust private school are feeling the pressures of impending final exams, but this isn’t like what we went through. The pressure is beyond ruthless with school, parents and future all looming like a monster overhead. An anonymous “suicide” note litters the school grounds and while teachers try to find its origin, students are succumbing to the stress of it all and may actually make the contents of the note a reality.

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Exit 8 gives us all existential (and real) dread

Imagine being stuck in an endless loop through a subway station hallway. If you aren’t meticulous enough to notice any little detail that alters from the “original”, you start all over again. It seems simple enough, right? I mean you just memorize all the minute details about every aspect in the hallway, but make a mistake and you start over… but the stakes start to rise, your secret innermost fears are brought to light and you could even start losing your mind. Not so simple.

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Tow tries to shame corporate bullies but stops short

Amanda Ogle (Rose Byrne) is more like the average American that we want to admit. She has been living out of her car in the painfully expensive city of Seattle for more than six months and just as she finds a job that could pull her out of the mire, someone steals her car. With a hefty tow bill, caused by the thief, between her and the car throws her world into chaos. She fights back to reign it back in, but it’s no simple task.

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The Bride! was engrossing, unnerving and surprising

Long after her death, Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) takes a lead role in the story of The Bride! Together with a bored, free-spirited, but troubled young woman (also Jessie Buckley) she intends to dispense chaos in order to relieve her spirit of a story that she deems must be told. In a world where she not only wrote about Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, but they were real beings (manifested by her words or created in reality? We’ll never know) she burns to continue the tale that has yet to conclude in her mind.

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Hoppers proves Pixar still hasn’t run out of good ideas

Unsurprisingly the studio has come up with a creative, silly, and emotional way to broach a complex subject once again. It’s not the first time they’ve laid their heavy hand on us about the environment, but this one might be the most direct discussion of what humans continue to do to the planet despite the plethora of warning signs it’s been giving us.