Peter Howell 🖊

Co-directors 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 (R, 🇨🇦) and 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗺 (L, 🇺🇸) dropped into a special screening of #YouCanSeeEverything, their Elizabeth Holmes exposé hit Thursday night at Cineplex Yonge-Eglinton Theatre. They still can’t believe they pulled off their all-access documentary approach to the tech fraudster and her family: “I think we started with the expectation that it wasn’t going to work,” Fielder said. It worked like gangbusters. The two also talked about the Canadian films and filmmakers who influenced them, among them Don Shebib’s “Goin’ Down the Road,” Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg” and Peter Lynch’s “Project Grizzly.” The film expands to more theatres this weekend.

Nerd alert: I can roll with the multiple linguistic anachronisms in Martin McDonagh’s spies-gone-wild comedy, set in 1973 on Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island). But I can’t countenance the references to the 1963 #JFK Assassination being lensed on Super 8 film, which wasn’t introduced until 1965. Zapruder used Double 8 (aka Standard 8) film for his famous footage. I still love the movie, though. #JFKAssassination

Windsor International Film Festival concludes its successful 2026 edition by naming Sean Menard’s “𝗥𝘂𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗥𝘂𝗻” winner of the LiUNA! People’s Choice Award. The film, now in general release, uses previously unseen footage to document Fox’s famous Marathon of Hope run for cancer relief in 1980. @WindsorFilmFest

VICTORIAN PSYCHO: “Barber of Seville” credits tune salutes Bugs Bunny but the wascally wabbit’s mischievous style of mayhem is evident long before that. Scream queen Maika Monroe plays wickedly against type as title maniac Winifred Notty, the unforgiving new governess for horrid 19th-century English family the Pounds, who make the vile Dursleys from Harry Potter tales seem positively pleasant. Macabre comedy is the aim and exuberant outcome for Monroe, director Zachary Wigon and screenwriter/novelist Virginia Feito, although there’s more blood than chuckles. Strangest thing of all, for heads not severed by an axe, is nodding in agreement to Notty’s assertion “I’m the sanest person I ever met.” #Cannes2026 📽️

ELSINORE: “All that lives must die,” Prince Hamlet is reminded in the tragedy titled for the Bard’s most celebrated character, acknowledgement of a universal truth. Yet acceptance doesn’t have to mean meek compliance, as Andrew Scott so masterfully demonstrates in a lead role, directed by Simon Stone, that demands best actor consideration. Scott plays Ian Charleson, the “Chariots of Fire” star who died of AIDS in 1990, not long after his commanding series of performances as Hamlet at Britain’s National Theatre. Scott summons immense strength, grace and a surprising amount of humor in a death-defying role that shines all the brighter next to such supporting stalwarts as Olivia Colman, Billie Pyper, Johnny Flynn and Monica Dolan. Great actors all and proof of the power of art to transcend mortal fears and concerns. 📽