Greetings programs! Our favourite time of year is back; the Vancouver International Film Festival is on now! The 2024 edition features a ton of great films, and we're here to talk about two of them: Gillian McKercher's family drama Lucky Star and Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front follow-up Conclave. It's a good discussion about two films we liked, so join us!

BONUS CONTENT:
To celebrate the festival, in this week's bonus episode, we talk about some of our favourite films from past festivals. Listen in to hear us rave about Special Actors, Columbus, The Lobster, Another Round, and more! Support starts at $2 CAD per months, a bargain!
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PAST VIFF COVERAGE:

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Greetings programs! That's right, it's a double-episode day! On this episode of the show we're taking a look at two new movies. First Zoë Kravitz directorial debut Blink Twice starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum, and then the upcoming biopic of World War II war photographer Lee Miller Lee starring Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg.

Join us!

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The bonus episode for this week has Matthew asking about our favourite Jimmy Stewart movies and Simon asking about our favourite cops-hunting-serial-killers movies, and there's some fun discussion there! To listen you can join the Patreon for as little as 2$ CAD per month or unlock this one post for 5$ CAD!
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Greetings, programs! This week on the show, we're talking about Seeds, Kaniehtiio Horn's directorial debut, which premiered at TIFF. Following that, we look at Azazel Phillip's latest, His Three Daughters, which is now on Netflix. This episode was supposed to debut last week, but circumstances prevented that, so you're getting it today! Double episode day, woo!

We hope you enjoy it.

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