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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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00:24:37

Lesbian Space Princess | Interview: Emma Hough Hobbs...

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2025/11/01

Lesbian Space Princess is a 2025 Australian adult animated science fiction comedy film written and directed by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese in their directorial debut. It features the voices of Shabana Azeez, Bernie Van Tiel, Gemma Chua-Tran, Richard Roxburgh, Kween Kong, and comedy troupe Aunty Donna.The story, inspired by the filmmakers' own lives, includes themes that relate to LGBTQI people, and themes include the importance of self-worth and self-love, feeling free to take up space, and

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00:04:11

Shelby Oaks | Interview with: Chris Stuckmann

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2025/10/20

Shelby Oaks is a 2024 American supernatural horror mystery film produced, written, and directed by Chris Stuckmann in his feature directorial debut, with Mike Flanagan as an executive producer. A continuation of an online series of fictional found footage videos about a paranormal investigative team named the Paranormal Paranoids, which also starred Durn, the film follows a woman determined to find her sister, who went missing while investigating the mysterious abandoned town of Shelby Oaks.Chris

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00:20:38

Modern Whore | Interview : Andrea Werhun & Nicole Bazuin

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2025/10/12

Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin challenge toxic misconceptions about sex work and sex workers with great audacity and high style.An impassioned and insightful rebuttal to the assumptions, misconceptions, and faulty representations that surround sex work and sex workers, Modern Whore may also be the most audacious and engaging movie ever made about the oldest profession.Successfully expanding on their 2020 short film and book of the same name, director Nicole Bazuin and subject and co-writer Andrea

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00:11:51

100 Sunset | Interview with Kunsang Kyirong

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2025/10/05

In this mesmerizing film by Kunsang Kyirong, the deepening bond between two young women threatens to have repercussions throughout a community of Tibetan immigrants living in an apartment complex in west Toronto.Indeed, one of the most impressive aspects of this fully realized first feature is Kyirong’s ability to combine a detailed portrait of this wider network of intersecting lives with a similarly specific and empathetic look at two people resisting the roles they’ve been assigned.

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00:23:21

Akashi | Interview: Mayumi Yoshida

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2025/10/04

Ten years after moving to Vancouver, struggling visual artist Kana Yamamoto (Mayumi Yoshida) returns to Tokyo to attend the funeral of her beloved grandmother. Arriving in Japan, she rekindles a tentative flame with her bashful ex-boyfriend, Hiro (Ryo Tajima), an aspiring thespian who vanished from her life a decade prior. As Kana digs deeper into her grandmother’s past, she uncovers a family secret that prompts her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about love, duty, and belonging.A

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00:16:24

Interview: The Last One For The Road

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2025/10/02

Francesco Sossai’s latest is an effortlessly charming and utterly delightful romp through the Italian countryside from the POV of a passenger in a car with two old-timers reliving their long-gone glory days.Loosely pulling from their own experiences, co-writers Francesco Sossai and Adriano Candiago brilliantly revive the beloved Commedia all’italiana style. Impeccably shot on film stock by director of photography Massimiliano Kuveiller (who also shot Diciannove, TIFF ’24), The Last One for the Road

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00:09:44

Whitetail | Interview with: Nanouk Leopold & Natasha...

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2025/09/23

Dutch director Nanouk Leopold’s seventh feature provides uncommonly vivid views of southern Irish scenery and the driven, haunted woman (Natasha O’Keeffe) at the story’s core.A slow-burn thriller about reckoning with trauma and containing the furies that threaten to reduce everything to ashes, Whitetail is rife with the same tightly coiled tension that exists deep within its protagonist. It’s just as remarkable for its vivid portrayal of its Irish setting, which director Leopold captures with great

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00:13:47

40 Acres | Interview: R.T Thorne

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2025/07/07

40 Acres is a 2024 Canadian post-apocalyptic thriller film written and directed by R. T. Thorne (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Danielle Deadwyler as a matriarch of descendants of African American farmers who settled in 1875 in rural Canada after the first Civil War. Two hundred years later, they are trying to survive in a decimated future.In a post-apocalyptic future where food is scarce, the last descendants of a Black family of farmers who settled in Canada after the American

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00:13:47

Please, After You | Interview: Neema Naz

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2025/05/22

Ali's life in Canada as a young immigrant turns upside down when his naïve cousin Omid arrives from overseas under mysterious circumstances to live with him in a newcomers settlement house. On the cusp of achieving his goal to settle in Toronto, a tide of misadventures derails Ali's plans, costing him his job opportunity and romance, which ultimately drives him to his wits’ end.Neema Naz is an Iranian-Canadian stand up comedian, actor, and content creator. During the fall of 2014 he launched his

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00:14:15

Egghead & Twinkie | Interview

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2025/05/20

Egghead & Twinkie is a colorful teen road movie directed by Sarah Kambe Holland and starring Sabrina Jie-A-Fa and Louis Tomeo. Known as the first feature to successfully crowdfund on TikTok, this indie production has taken the film festival circuit by storm.Available now on VOD in North America

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00:12:51

Sharp Corner | Interview: Jason Buxton

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2025/05/09

On the night they move from the city into a sprawling suburban home, parents Josh (Ben Foster, Finestkind, TIFF ’23) and Rachel (Cobie Smulders, High School, TIFF ’22) are jolted by a car crashing into the tree on their front lawn, killing the driver and injuring his passengers. And once Josh discovers the accidents are a regular occurrence due to the design of the road, he becomes obsessed with being ready to save the next victims... to the exclusion of everything else.Writer and Director, Jason

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00:10:52

Kryptic | Interview: Director, Kourtney Roy

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2025/05/08

Kryptic is a Canadian horror thriller film, directed by Kourtney Roy and released in 2024. The film stars Chloe Pirrie in a dual role as Barb Valentine, a cryptid hunter who has disappeared while hunting for the Sooka, a mysterious forest creature, and Kay, a woman who herself encounters the Sooka while searching for Barb, and abandons her life to embark on a new quest for meaning and identity after the encounter eliminates all her memories of who she used to be.Director, Kourtney Roy Joins the

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00:24:30

My Dead Friend Zoe | Interview with Kyle Hausmann-Stokes

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2025/04/27

My Dead Friend Zoe is a 2024 American comedy-drama film written by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes and A. J. Bermudez, directed by Hausmann-Stokes and starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Gloria Reuben, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Morgan Freeman, and Ed Harris.It premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2024, and was theatrically released in the United States on February 28, 2025.Kyle is an award-winning director and writer based in Los Angeles. Like all filmmakers, he got his start as a paratrooper in the

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00:08:46

Kaiju no. 8 Mission Recon | Interview: Landon McDonald

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2025/04/11

In a Kaiju-filled Japan, Kafka Hibino works in monster disposal. After reuniting with his childhood friend Mina Ashiro, a rising star in the anti-Kaiju Defense Force, hedecides to pursue his abandoned dream of joining the Force... when he suddenly transforms into the powerful "Kaiju No. 8." With help from his junior colleague Reno Ichikawa, Kafka hideshis identity while striving towards his life-long dream of passing the Defense Force exam and standing at Mina's side. But when mysterious intelligent

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00:10:41

The Luckiest Man in America | Interview: Samir Oliveros

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2025/04/02

Film synopsis:May 1984. An unemployed ice cream truck driver steps onto the game show Press Your Luck harboring a secret: the key to endless money. But his winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives uncover his real motivations.Director , Samir Oliveros joins the podcast this week to discuss the film and its upcoming theatrical release April 4th.#podcast #interview #paulwalterhouser

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00:09:30

His Father’s Son | Interview: Director, Meelad Moaphi

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2025/03/24

Film Synopsis: A determined aspiring chef, AMIR struggles to carve out a path for himself and gratify the expectations of his parents, FARHAD and AREZOU – while his younger, Canadian-born brother, MAHYAR, appears to cruise through life effortlessly. When Amir’s parents receive news that a family friend from Iran has died and left his inheritance solely to Mahyar, the unexpected bequest triggers a chain of revelations that reshape the brothers’ dynamic and unravel truths about the family’s hidden

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00:15:38

Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants | Interview: Fern...

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2025/03/18

LUCY: THE STOLEN LIVES OF ELEPHANTS is the first documentary film which reveals the plight of elephants in captivity and investigates the lies that zoos tell an unknowing public under the guise of wildlife conservation and education. At the heart of the film is Lucy, Edmonton Valley Zoo’s lone and ailing 48-year-old elephant and the people fighting to send her to a sanctuary in California where she can live for the first time in decades with the company of other elephants. Lucy’s roots are traced

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00:11:00

Can I Get A Witness? | Interview: Keira Jang & Ann...

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2025/03/12

Synopsis In a not so distant future, there is a reality where in order to save the planet, "death is everyone's job," with 50-year-olds taking the sacrifice, while teenage artists need to document it.Eight years since her last feature, filmmaker, writer, and visual artist Ann Marie Fleming brings her gentle, introspective touch to the timely genre of environmental science fiction.Can I Get A Witness? Is in theatres in Canada March 14#movie #podcast

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00:41:42

The 2025 Golden Slice Awards

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2025/03/02

Presented by ‪@filmtoppings‬ & ‪@1streviews‬ The 2025 Golden Slice awards honours the best in film this year with a large array of awards. You casted your vote on social media and here we are to present the winners! Thank you to everyone who submitted votes and thank you to all of the presenters:

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00:09:07

Allegiance Season 2 | cast Interview

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2025/01/14

Season 2 premieres Wednesday, January 15 (9 p.m.) on CBC and CBC Gem. ALLEGIANCE is a high-octane police procedural drama uniquely set in Surrey, BC. The CBC Original series from Lark Productions in association with Universal International Studios stars Supinder Wraich (Sort Of) as Sabrina Sohal and Enrico Colantoni (English Teacher) as Vince Brambilla. The series focuses on identity and belonging, policing and politics, and finding truth within the heart of a flawed justice system. Season 2 sees

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