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1st Reviews

We love movies! The 1st Reviews team is dedicated to the casual moviegoers and film enthusiasts alike, with our mix of candid and fun approach to analyzing movies and all things happening in the film industry. We are focused on providing film reviews, movie news, interviews, and coverage of many film related events to an international movie loving audience.

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00:11:06

North of North | Interview: Anna Lambe, Stacey Aglok...

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2025/01/08

North of North Premieres today Tuesday, January 7 on CBC and CBC Gem.Siaja (Anna Lambe, True Detective: Night Country, Trickster) is a young Inuk mother who dreams of reinventing herself in her tiny Arctic community of Ice Cove, a town where everybody knows your business. After a spontaneous — and extremely public — exit from her marriage, Siaja finds herself navigating the unpredictable, and often hilarious, highs and lows that come with relationships, motherhood, a new job, and finding your way. A

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00:43:28

Nosferatu | Spoiler discussion

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2025/01/06

Stefano, Ben and Gal from the 1st team discuss the newest addition to Robert Eggers every growing catalogue. Nosferatu is a remake of F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent film Nosferatu, itself inspired by Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. The film stars Bill Skarsgård as the titular character and Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp as the married Hutter couple, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe in supporting roles.In the 1830s, estate agent Thomas Hutter

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00:15:07

Saint-Pierre | Interview: Allan Hawco & Josephine Jobert

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2025/01/03

The 1st Reviews team had the pleasure of chatting with Allan Hawco and Josephine Jobert about starring in the new procedural drama, Saint-Pierre.Synopsis :After Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Inspector Donny “Fitz” Fitzpatrick digs too deeply into a local politician’s nefarious activity, he is exiled to work in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon (the French Territory nestled in the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Newfoundland). Fitz’s arrival disrupts the life of Deputy Chief Geneviève “Arch”

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00:10:50

Solo Leveling Reawakening | Interview: Aleks Le

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2024/12/06

Solo Leveling Follows the adventures Sung Jinwoo in a world that is constantly threatened by monsters and the evil forces. In his battles Sung transforms himself from weakest hunter of all mankind to one of the strongest hunters in existence.Reawakening is a great jump start for new fans into the series as the film recaps season 1 and gives a great sneak peek into season 2 that begins January 2025.Aleks Le joins the pod this week to discuss anime and his time voicing the main character Sung Jinwoo

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00:14:48

The Heirloom | Interview: Ben Petrie

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2024/11/29

Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, a desperate filmmaker agrees to rescue a traumatized dog with his girlfriend. Part rescue dog rom-com, part auto-fiction psychodrama, and part family scrapbook, this debut feature displays a disquieting amount of emotional authenticity, capturing what it means to be human.Director and writer, Ben Petrie joins the podcast this episode to talk about the film and its upcoming theatrical release in Toronto. Check your local

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00:16:50

Pins & Needles | Interview: Director, James Villeneuve

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2024/11/20

Movie synopsis: What should have been an uneventful ride back to campus unexpectedly becomes a nightmare as MAX, a diabetic, biology grad student, is entrapped in a diabolical new-age wellness experiment. With her insulin supply dwindling, Max is forced into a deadly game of cat and mouse where she must escape at all costs or risk becoming the next test subject to extend the lives of the rich and privileged.Pins and Needles makes its world premiere at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival and will be

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00:13:38

LEVELS | Interview: Director, Adam Stern

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2024/11/02

Ash (Cara Gee) and Joe (Peter Mooney) meet at the bookstore that he owns. They begin seeing each other and find themselves falling in love.That all changes when Ash and Joe are enjoying coffee at an outdoor café and a man walks by with a gun and shoots Ash — then disappears into thin air.Grieving, Joe contemplates suicide, but soon discovers that his reality isn't quite what it seems to be. He discovers Ash is alive in another dimension and he has to try to connect with her.Written and Directed by

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00:20:52

Passage: Unknown 9 | Interview with: Karl Janisse

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2024/10/27

In this interview, Stefano from the 1st team talks with director, Karl Janisse about his newest mini series, Passage. Part of the Unknown 9 video game series, Passage is a 7 part web series available now for streaming. Synopsis: It’s 1914, and the crew of the SS Talaria descends into a puzzling charade of madness after departing the docks of Cairo. Emilia Duprey, a lone stowaway stealing passage to America, now finds herself entangled in a 100,000-year-old secret fueled by a mysterious entity

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00:09:51

Triumph | Interview: Petar Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva

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2024/10/06

Triumph is a 2024 Bulgarian-Greek black comedy film directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. It will star Maria Bakalova, Julian Kostov, Julian Vergov and Margita Gosheva.After the Fall of Communism in the early 1990s, a classified task force of high-rank Bulgarian Army officers led by a psychic channeler starts digging a hole in search of a mysterious artifact which will bring about the ultimate triumph.Triumph premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival

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00:03:50

The Rings of Power | Interview: Robert Aramayo &...

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2024/10/06

The second season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings. Set thousands of years before the novel in the Second Age of Middle-earth, the season depicts the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron and the creation of more Rings of Power. Season 2 of The Rings of Power is available now on Prime Video #interview #toronto #lotr

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00:03:37

The Rings of Power | Interview: Charlie Vickers

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2024/10/02

The second season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings. Set thousands of years before the novel in the Second Age of Middle-earth, the season depicts the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron and the creation of more Rings of Power.Charlie Vickers stars as Sauron in The Rings of Power. In this interview, Charlie discusses his approach

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00:04:45

The Rings of Power: Interview with Markella Kavenagh...

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2024/09/29

television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings.Season 2 of Rings of Power centers on the return of Sauron. He is rebuilding his strength and overseeing the creation of the Rings of Power. These rings are meant to bind the peoples of Middle-earth to his will.In this interview, Stefano speaks with Markella Kavenagh, who plays Nori and Cynthia Addai-Robinson who

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00:12:23

The Swedish Torpedo interview with Frida Kempff

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2024/09/09

This beautifully textured period drama from director Frida Kempff tells the story of Sally Bauer, a Swedish mother who pursues her dream of swimming the English Channel before the Second World War envelops Europe.

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00:09:53

Interview with: Sarah Gadon | You Godda Believe

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2024/09/06

You Godda Believe:After dedicating the season to a teammate's ailing father, a group of underdog youth baseball players makes it all the way to the 2002 Little League World Series, culminating in a record-breaking showdown.Sarah Gadon is a Canadian actor who began her career at the age of 11. She has appeared in more than 35 feature films and 42 television shows. Her newest film, You Godda Believe is in theatres now.

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00:09:05

Balestra: Interview with director, Nicole Dorsey

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2024/08/09

A competitive fencer agrees to test an experimental device that lets her train within lucid dreams in which she meets a mysterious stranger who will upend her marriage, her psyche, and her path to Olympic gold.In theatres now

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