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"You're in the deep end now... I hope you can swim." 101 Films has revealed a new official US trailer for an indie film from Canada titled A Small Fortune. This originally premiered a few years ago and it already opened in Canada in the fall of 2021, but is only now getting its US release if anyone still wants to watch. From writer / director Adam Perry, adapting his award-winning short film A Blessing from the Sea (2017). When a desperate man finds a bag of lost money off the shores of Prince Edward Island, his decision to keep it secret turns his quaint fishing village into a growing crime scene. Everyone knows that finding a bag of money always leads to more problems and violence. The film stars Stephen Oates, Liane Balaban, Joel Thomas Hynes, Andrea Bang, and Matt Cook. This looks like it has solid production value, but will the...

"She ran away... Why didn't she take me with her?" Peccadillo Pictures from the UK has revealed a new official UK trailer for an indie film titled Wildhood from Canada, which is already out on VOD in the US. It's opening in the UK this September and we never posted the trailer for it, so why not feature this now - because it looks very good. This premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival last year. Two brothers – Link and Travis – embark on a journey to find their birth mother after their abusive father had lied for years about her whereabouts; along the way, they reconnect with their own Indigenous heritage and make a new friend. As a close bond begins to form between Link and Pasmay, Link learns to come to terms with his own complex heritage, identity and sexuality. Starring Phillip Lewitski, Joshua Odjick, Michael Greyeyes, Steve Lund, Joel Thomas Hynes,...

It’s a problem faced by mixed-race people all over the world, especially in youth: all of the racism, a lot less by way of community support. Link (Philip Lewitski) lives with his white father (Joel Thomas Hynes) and white half-brother Travis (Avery Winters-Anthony). his mother is long gone. his father beats him, and it’s getting worse because he’s finding it harder to hide the fact that he is two-spirit. When he and Travis are arrested for trying to scavenge scrap metal from an abandoned factory, he’s beaten unconscious by the police, and he knows that when he gets home, his father will add to the damage. Desperate, he searches through his father’s room for a means of resistance or escape, and finds, instead, a box of letters from his mother. His father has lied to him. She’s still alive, and has been writing to him all these years.

Network: The CW

Episodes: Six (hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: January 12, 2021 -- February 16, 2021

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Nathan Alexis, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice, and Georgina Lightning.

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A coming-of-age supernatural thriller series, the Trickster TV show is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson.

Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the story follows Jared (Oulette), an Indigenous teen who struggles to keep his dysfunctional family above water. Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side to support his separated parents -- partying mom Maggie (Crystle Lightning), who self-medicates an undiagnosed mental illness,...

The Trickster TV series originates on the CBC network in Canada and the show has already been renewed for a second season there. The show presumably costs The CW less to license than it would cost to produce an original series. Will season two of Trickster air in the United States? Stay tuned.   *Status Update Below.

A coming-of-age supernatural thriller series, the Trickster TV show is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson. The series stars Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Nathan Alexis, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice, and Georgina Lightning. Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the story follows Jared (Oulette), an Indigenous teen who struggles to keep his dysfunctional family above water. Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side to support his separated parents. But, when Jared starts seeing strange things,...

The Trickster TV show will have a shorter than expected lifespan. The drama series, which originates on CBC in Canada, is currently airing its first season on The CW. Trickster had already been renewed for a second season in Canada but now, those plans have been cancelled.

The Trickster TV show is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson. The series stars Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Nathan Alexis, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice, and Georgina Lightning. Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the story follows Jared (Oulette), an Indigenous teen who struggles to keep his dysfunctional family above water. Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side to support his separated parents. But, when Jared starts seeing strange things, his already chaotic life is turned upside down. At...

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Airing on CBC in Canada and on The CW in the United States, the Trickster TV show is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson. The series stars Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Nathan Alexis, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice, and Georgina Lightning. Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the...

With the Covid-19 pandemic having wreaked havoc on production, the CW’s “fall” season is being winterized. The strangest TV season in memory will continue in January and February with the network setting premiere dates for 11 returning series and three new ones: Walker, Superman & Lois and Canadian pickup Trickster.

The CW in May announced that its regular 2020-21 schedule will roll out in January and unveiled a fall 2020 lineup consisting of acquisitions and the final episodes of Supernatural.

The series are launching when they are ready based on staggered production start dates and length of post-production — especially the multiple superhero shows that require elaborate special effects.

The rollout begins Friday, January 8, with the season bows of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Both unscripted veterans originally were set to air on Mondays.

The new season continues with the Season 3 premiere of Two Sentence Horror Stories on Tuesday,...

As if to illustrate the hypothetical “So you think you’re having a bad day?,” Canadian thriller “Hammer” puts its characters through a Rube Goldbergian obstacle course of peril in the immediate hours after a hijacked drug deal. The pileup of disasters is such that this tale might easily have been spun as some kind of grotesque comedy. But .

The result isn’t a knockout, falling between the territories of crime meller and family drama without quite maximizing either element. But it works well enough in that middle ground, making for a succinct, well-crafted suspense exercise likely to satisfy most home viewers who find it via digital and VOD release as of June 5.

Will Patton’s usual authority is a big plus in the role of Stephen Davis, a working-class father who exudes a quietly firm if put-upon fortitude in a household it’s hinted has known too much strife.

It looks like things are going to get even more complicated in season four of Orphan Black. Will the show's growing mythology draw in new viewers or scare them away? Will this BBC America show be cancelled or renewed for a fifth season? Stay tuned.

On Orphan Black, a con-woman and orphan named Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany) discovers she is one of many clones that have been created by a scientific movement -- and are at the center of an assassination plot by a secret religious group. Others in the cast this season are Jordan Gavaris, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kristian Bruun, Kevin Hanchard, Skyler Wexler, Ari Millen, Josh Vokey, James Frain, Allison Steadman, Rosemary Dunsmore, and Joel Thomas Hynes.

Below are the show's TV ratings, typically the best way to tell if the series will be cancelled or renewed. In this case, the show's UK...

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Below, watch the Orphan Black TV series cast recap the first three seasons ahead of season four. The Clone Club returns for a fourth season on BBC America, Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:00pm Et/Pt. Orphan Black is co-created by writer Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett. Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier, and Kerry Appleyard executive produce.

Orphan Black stars Tatiana Maslany in multiple roles. The cast also includes Jordan Gavaris, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kristian Bruun, Kevin Hanchard, Skylar Wexler, Josh Vokey, Rosemary Dunsmore, Ari Millen, James Frain, Alison Steadman, Lauren Hammersley, Jessalyn Wanlim, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gord Rand, Ian Matthews, and Miranda Edwards.

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Sarah, reluctantly return home from her Icelandic hideout to track down an elusive and mysterious ally tied to the clone who started it all — Beth Childs. Sarah will follow Beth’s footsteps into a dangerous relationship with a potent new enemy, heading in a horrifying new direction. Under constant pressure to protect the sisterhood and keep everyone safe, Sarah’s old habits begin to resurface. As the close-knit sisters are pulled in disparate directions, Sarah finds herself estranged from the loving relationships that changed her for the better. Orphan Black features: Tatiana Maslany as Sarah Manning Tatiana Maslany as Alison Hendrix Tatiana Maslany as Cosima Niehaus Tatiana Maslany as Helena Manning Tatiana Maslany as Rachel Duncan Tatiana Maslany as Krystal Goderitch Tatiana Maslany as M.K. Tatiana Maslany as Various Others Jordan Gavaris as Felix Dawkins Kevin Hanchard as Detective Arthur Bell Maria Doyle Kennedy as Siobhan Sadler Skyler Wexler...

The first Orphan Black Season 4 spoilers have been unleashed, and here’s the major takeaway: A new adversary will send Sarah in a “horrifying” new direction — fracturing the “sisterhood” in the process.

VideosVideo: Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany Reveals Exactly One Season 4 Spoiler

Per a just-released BBC America press release…

Season 4 of the drama will see leader-of-the-pack, Sarah, reluctantly return home from her Icelandic hideout to track down an elusive and mysterious ally tied to the clone who started it all — Beth Childs. Sarah will follow Beth’s footsteps into a dangerous relationship with a potent new enemy, heading in a horrifying new direction.

If you're an enthusiast of heist flicks, the upcoming Canadian film The Con Artist should interest you. For that matter, the trailer of the film can be seen.

Vince (Rossif Sutherland) is an ex-con on parole after a five year stint in prison. Unable to go straight due to a vicious crime boss (Donald Sutherland) on his heels, Vince returns to stealing cars. But his luck begins to shift when Belinda (Rebecca Romijn), a sexy art dealer, discovers Vince has more to offer than just a tricky past.

The film also stars Sarah Roemer, Russell Peters, Mac Fyfe, Jed Rees, Mary Walsh, Deborah Theaker, Cory Lee, Terra Vnesa, Pedro Miguel Arce and Joel Hynes.

The story was penned by Michael Melski and Collin Friesen.

Finally, no release date has been announced for this film directed by Risa Bramon Garcia. However, the film is currently being showcased at the 2010 Cannes Film Market.

New York's Museum of Modern Arts (MoMA), in association with Telefilm Canada, will organize the seventh annual Canadian Front. This event will be held from March 17 to March 24, 2010. Moreover, New Yorkers will have the chance to see nine Canadian films.

Obviously, this event should help Canadian films to find a U.S. distributor and allow New Yorkers to see Canadian films that were completed over the last 18 months. As a matter of fact, it was the Canadian Front event that allowed Bruce McDonald's brilliant zombie film Pontypool to be distributed in the USA by IFC Films for instance.

This year, the Canadian Front has in store two comedies, two dramas, two coming-of-age stories, two documentaries and an old classic. Speaking about that classic, the film in question was directed by Allan King, a Canadian director who left us in June 2009 and whose work was the subject of a MoMA retrospective in 2007. So,...

This is the second film I see at the Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (Fnc). Once we get past the first half of Crackie, we get the feeling that it's interesting. In fact, Crackie is one of those rare films that deals with the inherent difficulties linked to life in a small town. Although the film might not win the Genie Award for best script, it would be a scandal if the cast's performance - especially Meghan Greeley's - is unnoticed.

Mitsy (Meghan Greeley), a girl from a small town of Newfoundland and Labrador, lives with her well-intentioned and oppressive grandmother, Bride (Mary Walsh), who earns a living as a whore. After all, ever since her childhood, Mitsy has been abandoned by her mom, Gwenny (Cheryl Wells), who only cares about drinking and sex. Besides, to top it all, Mitsy's mom lives in Alberta, a province from the Prairies.

The least we can say is that Down to the Dirt is one of the few films that rightfully bears its title. In fact, the title could certainly refer to where I'd have liked to throw it. However, since I borrowed it from my local library, I couldn't do it because I didn't want to have a librarian on my back.

Keith (Joel Thomas Hynes), a young man from a small town of Newfoundland and Labrador, is jobless and wastes his time. When he meets Natasha (Mylène Savoie) his life changes. In fact, they both decide to move to move to St-John's, Newfoundland's biggest city. However, since Keith doesn't look like someone who can get a job and smarten up, Natasha decides to leave him and to take a flight to Halifax, Nova Scotia. From this moment, Keith will do everything to win her love back.

Before you watch this film,...

More for Vanguard, Real to Reel, Special Presentations, Galas, Short cuts, and Contemporary World Cinema which includes the World premier of Reginald Harkema's latest, Leslie, My Name is Evil. That link has the 2nd promo trailer (we used to have two) but we were asked by Reggie to remove the first. We also have Sook-Yin Lee's Year of the Carnivore which I've been keeping an eye on for some time. Also playing is The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

Check out the full list of added films after the break!

Canada First!

Year of the Carnivore Sook-Yin Lee, BC

World Premiere

Year of the Carnivore is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience.'

All Fall Down Philip Hoffman, On

North American Premiere

Local legend Philip Hoffman's formally adventurous...