Around The Loop: Hooking the Leg on 2025
BBP’s wrestling groupchat gets together to wrap up 2025!
Author: Sachin Hingoo
Sachin Hingoo is a Toronto-based writer whose work currently appears on Biff Bam Pop! and The Cultural Gutter. You can find all his writing at https://authory.com/shingoo
Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Must-Have Criterion Releases and Unique Gifts From A24 and Uncommon Goods
Sachin Hingoo picks out some off-the-wall gift selections for film fans!
Saturday At The Movies: Expect The Unexpected in Osgood Perkins’ ‘Keeper’
Osgood Perkins’ latest, ‘Keeper’ feels like a couple of decent performances, mostly-cheap scares, and decent but confusing VFX in search of a story.
Saturday at the Movies: Reflections of a Reflection in Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s ‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ (Toronto After Dark Film Festival)
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s ‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ favours style over substance. But it might be better for it.
31 Days of Horror 2025: It’s Gonna Be May (2002)
Discover why Lucky McKee’s ‘May’ (2002) is one of Sachin Hingoo’s perennial favourites and a Spooky Season mainstay.
31 Days of Horror Trailer Time: ‘Scream 7’ and a New Generation of Ghostfaces
Trailer Time: ‘Scream 7’ takes the franchise back to its roots with a returning Kevin Williamson, Neve Campbell, and Courteney Cox!
31 Days of Horror 2025: Izzy Lee’s ‘House of Ashes’ is a Gripping, Timely Nightmare
Izzy Lee’s feature debut ‘House of Ashes’ is a compelling treatise on bodily autonomy and grief while delivering some disturbing imagery that may be natural, supernatural, or some combination of the two.
31 Days of Horror 2025: Rod Blackhurst’s ‘Dolly’ and the Comfort of the Extreme (Fantastic Fest, 2025)
Rod Blackhurst’s ‘Dolly’ treads familiar French Extremity ground on the way to delivering a dark and depraved tale that’ll stick to your disembodied ribs.
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Redefines the Master
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ is a funny, brilliant, surgical satire of authoritarian fascism and one of the year’s best.
TIFF 2025 Day Six: ‘Dust Bunny’, ‘Frankenstein’, ‘Train Dreams’, ‘The Ugly’
All the highlights from Day Six of #TIFF50 !
TIFF 2025 Day Five: ‘Good Boy’, ‘Orwell 2+2=5’, ‘Exit 8’, ‘The Smashing Machine’
All the highlights from Day Five of #TIFF50 !
TIFF 2025 Day Four: ‘The Napa Boys’, ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’, ‘Sacrifice’, and ‘Normal’
All the highlights from Day Four of #TIFF50 !