Film Festivals

    The 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival begins a virtual program of movies this Sunday, October 4, continuing through Sunday, November 1. As the PR describes, “Access:Horror was founded by filmmaker and activist Ariel Baska to center disability advocacy through genre cinema. This year’s lineup features groundbreaking short films that utilize horror to dissect real-world medical racism,…

    At the fifth season wrap party for Son of a Critch, the CBC comedy based on comedian Mark Critch’s childhood in St. John’s, executive producer Andrew Barnsley found himself in conversation with Critch’s real-life brother. Watching a version of his own family on screen, he told Barnsley, is a strange feeling. The characters on TV,…