The 2024 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is less than two weeks away. This morning, tickets went on sale for this year's selection of films. As such, I thought I would li… Read More

Physical media has mostly exited the mainstream, with many going as far to declare it dead. However, there is still a dedicated group of cinephiles and collectors, who know the value of DVD… Read More

If taken at face value, the opening weekend of the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival proceeded as it normally would. First-year president Marie Nelson would introduce… Read More

With the news of the mass exodus of ten programming team members still fresh on everyone's might, and later updated to include news of the departure of Artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy… Read More

A new Kickstarter campaign has launched for a new film reboot of the 1983 sword and sorcery epic Deathstalker. The film will be directed by Steven Kostanski (Manborg, The Void, PG – Ps… Read More

2024 marks twenty years of me writing this site. While the actual anniversary isn’t until the end of August, I thought that one of the ways that I would mark this occasion is that I wo… Read More

Many media outlets rush to release their year-end lists at the end of a given year. In the cinema sphere, this often includes releasing films of the “Top Ten Best Films” or the m… Read More

The line-up and schedule have been announced for the 2023 Toronto After Dark Film Festival. The 17th edition of the festival will be taking place from October 18-22 at the Scotiabank Theatr… Read More

I consider myself to be a film critic in the loosest sense of the word. My reviews rarely get more than a few hundred views and except for what I get from advertising (not much) and Patreon… Read More

In addition to being the primary writer, editor, and publisher of Sean Kelly on Movies, as the operator of a sole proprietorship, I am also the primary social media marketer. This is arguabl… Read More

The horror documentary It’s Coming had its world premiere as part of the Nightvision program as part of the 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival. Shot, directed, produced… Read More

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to visit Stranger Things: The Experience, the interactive exhibition presented by Netflix and Fever. The experience is happening from now through Jun… Read More

With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in the cancellation of the 2020 edition and the relegation of the 2021 edition online, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival will return to the Scotiabank… Read More

After spending the 2020 and 2021 editions forced to cover the festival virtually, this year saw me return to Montreal to attend the Fantasia Film Festival for the first time since 2019. Othe… Read More

Fresh off its recent screening as part of the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival, we have five Blu-ray copies of the Japanese action-comedy Baby Assassins to give away, courtesy of our friends at W… Read More

Poster for Verified Last year, actress Ali Chappel (Necropolis: Legion, Girl with a Straight Razor) made the transition into filmmaking by writing and directing her debut short film Verif… Read More

Row 19 Giveaway Rules Giveaway open only to residents of Canada and the United States, 18 years of age or olderEntries are accepted until 11:59 PM on May 27, 2022Winners will be no… Read More

¡VIVA MAESTRO! Giveaway Rules Open to residents of Toronto or those who will be in Toronto to attend the screeningEntries expire at midnight on April 7, 2022Winners will be… Read More

The Long Night Giveaway Rules Giveaway open only to residents of Canada and the United StatesEntries at midnight on April 2, 2022Winners will be notified by e-mail and must provide… Read More

I spent a lot of time over the years writing about my love of the Humber Cinema and even started a failed petition to save the cinema from demolition, arguing that it should be a historic la… Read More

Welcome to the year 2022! In theory, this is supposed to be a big year for me, since I will be turning 40 in just a few months’ time. However, the year is really getting off on the wro… Read More

After having merely a taste last year, TIFF21 saw me returning to the in-person film festival experience for the first time since 2019. Despite continued concerns about COVID-19 and the Del… Read More

While Fantasia made a partial return to in-person screenings this year, I once again covered the festival virtually from home. I’m looking forward to a possible return to Montreal nex… Read More

This morning, many in the Toronto film community were shocked when Bar Volo unexpectedly tweeted the following announcement: New Location: Bottega Volo (608 College St.) The Volo team… Read More

This was the second virtual edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival and I do have to make note of how much of a challenge it is to cover a film festival remotely. While I do hope that Hot Doc… Read More

The 93rd annual edition of the Academy Awards occurred last night, while most of the world was still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike the Emmys and Golden Globes, which had most… Read More

Admittedly, there is a lot more guesswork for me when it comes to this year’s Oscar predictions. However, I am still going to try my best. Best Picture – Nomadland Long bef… Read More

The Oscars are tonight and it is time for my annual list of review links for the nominated films. Stay tuned later today, as I will be posting my official predictions. Best Picture Nomine… Read More

UPDATE (1/23/2021) – DUE TO UNFORSEEN CONFLICTS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN INDEFINITELY POSTPONED We are kicking off 2021 with the official launch of the SK on Movies Zoom Movie Club, whi… Read More

We are kicking off 2021 with the official launch of the SK on Movies Zoom Movie Club, which will be a semi-regular paid Zoom conversation about a film of my choosing… Read More

Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones presents this satirical look at the previous year in Death to 2020. The year 2020 started with the threat of… Read More

The near-death experience of a musician results in him reevaluating the purpose of his life in Soul. Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) is an aspiring jazz pianist, who consid… Read More

A group of friends perform an experiment about how consuming alcohol can be beneficial to their lives in Another Round. Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), Tommy (Thomas Bo Lar… Read More

A teenage girl finds herself body-swapped with a serial killer in Freaky. Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) is a bullied high school student, whose only true confidant… Read More

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The events that lead to the writing of the screenplay for Citizen Kane are dramatized in Mank. Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) is a washed-up, alcoholic screenwri… Read More

A heavy metal drummer struggles with the fact that he is going deaf in Sound of Metal. Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and Lou (Olivia Cooke) are a couple who tour together as par… Read More

This review was original published as part of my coverage of Fantasia 2020 A teenager gets more than she bargains for when she participates in a sleep study in Co… Read More

A detective investigates a murder at a tech company in Parallel Minds. Margo Elson (Tommie-Amber Pirie) and Elise Perrott (Michelle Thrush) are two techs working on… Read More

A young man returns home after the mysterious death of his father, only to discover it occupied by a supernatural presence in The Return. Following the sudden death… Read More

A singer-songwriter is encouraged by her new producer to give in to her primal instincts in Bloodthirsty. Grey (Lauren Beatty) is a popular singer, who is preparing… Read More

A mother and her young daughter try to escape a viral outbreak at a hotel in Hall. Val (Carolina Bartczak) is a woman in a troubled marriage to her husband Branden (… Read More

This review was original published as part of my coverage of Fantasia 2020 A nurse and a vengeful father try to survive a Halloween night home invasion in For the… Read More

This review was original published as part of my coverage of Fantasia 2020 The cult fandom of the Evil Dead franchise is explored in Hail to the Deadites. In the… Read More

This review was original published as part of my coverage of Fantasia 2020 A young woman develops suspicions about her friend during a trip to a cabin in Bleed wi… Read More

Trigger Warning: This review comments on a scene of sexual abuse in this film, which will also include some SPOILERS A troubled teenage girl communicates with the… Read More

Today is supposed to be Canadian Thanksgiving, but we are also at the start of the so-called “Second Wave” of the COVID-19 pandemic, which will dampen many plans for families to… Read More

Possessor is the sophomore feature film from writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, who is of course the son of legendary Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg. With both Possessor and its predec… Read More

A few weeks ago, I lamented about how this will likely be the first time since 2003 I don’t see any films as part of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. However, now that the… Read More

Like many film festivals in 2020, Fantasia decided to go virtual this year. I would say that they were successful in this regard with its VOD and “live” screenings via the Shift7… Read More

It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that for the first time since I started going to the festival in 2003, I will not be seeing any films at the Toronto International Film Festi… Read More

The virtual DC FanDome convention happened this weekend, which included the debut of trailers for a number of DC film productions, including The Suicide Squad and the “Zack Snyder Cut… Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an increase in live-tweeting screening events, in an effort to regain some of the communal experience lost from seeing films in the theatre. After a very quick… Read More

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A Toronto artist recreates the titular character's bedroom from Ferris Bueller's Day Off in Ferris's Room. For an exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto artist Sarah Keenlyside… Read More

Italian director Luca Guadagnino follows the award winning success of last year's Call Me by Your Name with this remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria. This new version stars Dak… Read More

A country priest has a crisis of faith in First Reformed. Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke) is the pastor of the First Reformed parish, a historic yet poorly attended Dutch Reform church. T… Read More

For this week's Tuesday trailer, we have Disney's new live action look at the adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It has been more than fifty year's since the first Disney animated short based on… Read More

A photographer returns home to her Orthodox Jewish community and rekindles a forbidden romance in Disobedience. Ronit Krushka (Rachel Weisz) is a New York based photographer, who return… Read More

This month I watched Ken Russell's 1975 film based on the rock opera by The Who. Tommy (Roger Daltrey) has been supposedly death, dumb, and blind since witnessing as a kid his stepfathe… Read More

The origins of Han Solo are told in Solo: A Star Wars Story. After escaping from a life of servitude on the planet Corellia, Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) finds himself a member of the Im… Read More

On this edition of Sean Kelly Reviews, we will be talking about Deadpool 2 and Tully. 00:17 - Introduction 01:26 - Clip - Deadpool 2 trailer (Course Language) 03:56 - Review… Read More

Last week, a trailer dropped for a new R-rated buddy cop film (with puppets) directed by Brian Henson (the son of Jim). The film is the first feature from "Henson Alternative," which is a su… Read More

The merc with the mouth returns to the big screen in Deadpool 2. Following the loss of his love Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), fall into a suicidal fun… Read More

The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary festival has come and gone. The general theme this year seemed to women's rights, with half the selection being directed b… Read More

At the conclusion of the 25th edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, it was reported that Michael Del Monte's Transformer was the winner of both the&n… Read More

The music and politics of international popstar M.I.A. are told in Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.. Matangi Arulpragasm, aka Maya to her friends and M.I.A. to most of the world, moved in 1985 with… Read More

A slam poetry team prepares for nationals in Don't Be Nice. Coached by Lauren Whitehead and Jon Sands, the Bowery Poetry Slam team of Ashley August, Timothy DuWhite, … Read More

The sociopolitical situation in Venezuela is shown from the point of view of five women in Women of the Venezuelan Chaos. Despite the top suppliers of oil, Venezuela has become a very i… Read More

Twelve New York City police officers join a class action lawsuit against corruption in the NYPD in Crime + Punishment. Within the NYPD, a number of Black and Latino officers are encouraged b… Read More

Brothers and sisters separated by the foster care system reunite at a special summer camp in Siblings. 11 year old Liberty and 18 year old Brandi are two young women separated from their nat… Read More

Social media celebrities are profiled in The American Meme. Since the rise of social media, there have been those who have the platform as the route cult celebrity. This include includes inf… Read More

The people behind "save our show" campaigns are profiled in United We Fan. Over the years, fans of low-rated, but beloved television series have banded together to save the shows from cancel… Read More

The development of a video game is followed from start to finish in Playing Hard. Jason Vandenberghe has worked in the video game industry for two decades. In 2013, Vandenberghe go… Read More

Mattel sets out to do a complete overhaul of its signature Barbie dolls in Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie. Introduced in 1959 by Ruth and Elliot Handler, Barbie is one of the most recogni… Read More

The story of Trump's election is told entirely through Russian propaganda in Our New President. Compiled from material from Russia's stations Russia-1, Russia TV, and NTV, the media empire o… Read More

A Singapore filmmaker revisits a film she made in her youth in Shirkers. When she was 18 years old, Sandi Tan set out to shoot Singapore's first road movie with her friends Jasmine Ng and So… Read More

A rape victim goes through the process of bringing her sexual assault to trial in Slut or Nut: The Diary of a Rape Trial. In 2015, Mandi Gray was sexually assaulted by a union leader she was… Read More

A stressed out mother of three hires a night nanny in Tully. Marlo (Charlize Theron) is a woman on the verge of giving birth to her third child, who already has a stressful time raising… Read More

Chef Albert Adrià hopes to step out from his more famous brother's shadow in Constructing Albert. With his restaurant elBulli, Ferran Adrià redefined the world o… Read More

Social media plays a major role in the case of a teenager girl raped in a small town in Ohio in Roll Red Roll. Steubenville is a town in Ohio best known for the local high school footba… Read More

The sequence of events leading to Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US Presidential election is broken down in Active Measures. It has been alleged that Russia utilized active measur… Read More

The life and career of Canadian musician Randy Bachman is told in Bachman. Developing a love for music very early on growing up in Winnipeg, Bachman joined Chad Allen & The Expressions i… Read More

The president of the island nation of Kiribati fights for the survival of his people in Anote's Ark. Kiribati is a low-lying nation in the Pacific, which has been severely affected… Read More

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds organizes a music festival in support of LGBTs in the Morman community in Believer. Raised as part of the Morman church, Dan Reynolds begins to have a m… Read More

Outsourced content moderators decide what content is appropriate for the major social networks in The Cleaners. Companies such as Google and Facebook outsource content moderation to foreign… Read More

Bill Murray's habit of randomly interacting with random people is explored in The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man. All over, there are stories of people running… Read More

The stories of people in the mountains of British Columbia are told in This Mountain Life. 75% of made up of mountain ranges, yet few people are able to properly experience them. Martin… Read More

A former member of the IRA gives her first-hand account of The Troubles in I, Dolours. In 2010, Dolours Price gave an interview recounting her time as a member of the Irish Republican Army… Read More

Female victims of online harassment fight back in Netizens. Digital mediums have made it easier for women to be harassed and law enforcement is not equipped to do anything about it. As such… Read More

This history of the alternative right is told in Alt-Right: Age of Rage. In 2008, white supremacist Richard Spenser coined the name "Alt-Right" as the name of his blog. Over the next decade… Read More

The life and career of Gilda Radner is told in her own words in Love, Gilda. Growing up in Detroit, Gilda Radner quickly became a star for The Second City in Toronto and later as one of the… Read More

The story of the life an career of Mr. Rogers is told in Won't You Be My Neighbor. In the late 1960s, Fred Rogers started the children's television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, as a w… Read More

The advances in artificial intelligence are explored in More Human Than Human. Machines are developing at a rapid pace and they are expected to replace traditional jobs by the year 2030. Wit… Read More

The systematic abuse of the elderly in the Las Vegas area is investigated in The Guardians. Elderly couples such as Rudy and Rennie North find themselves appointed to legal guardians without… Read More

The obsessive fans of boybands are profiled in I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story. Every sine the rise of The Beatles in the 1960s, there have been all-male musical acts that have… Read More

Three men discover that they are triplets separated at birth in Three Identical Strangers. In 1980, Robert Shafran, Eddy Galland, and David Kellman discovery by accident that… Read More

The heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe face their biggest challenge in Avengers: Infinity War. As The Avengers remain divided, following the events of Captain America: Civil War, the in… Read More

A writer for The Late Show with David Letterman talks about his obsession with industrial musicals in Bathtubs Over Broadway. While collecting weird records to showcase on David Letterm… Read More