Ruby Winter ⁽⁸⁾

I recently learned that Vachon's 'Ah Caramel' cakes, my personal favorite of every grocery store snack food aisle, are Canadian. I then subsequently realized that they are, apparently, not found outside of Canada. So, having recently seen a limited edition maple flavour, I did the…

Though I've never seen any of the other Knives Out movies, Wake Up Dead Man was actually the entire reason I went to TIFF 2025. One of my dear friends is a big fan of the series, and because they live close enough to visit,…

It's been several months since I watched Scarlet, and I'm still not sure whether I like it or not. I don't know if I think it's a good movie. I don't know if I think it's a bad movie. Despite the fact that I have…

The saga of I and my companion actually getting to see Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein spans almost a consecutive twenty-seven hours. Tickets were impossible to get for Wake Up Dead Man and Frankenstein for any regular TIFF member (and even for several of the higher-ranking…

Like so many before me, and so many who will no doubt follow after, I spent most of my youth (and my teenage years in particular) depressed. For me it was this slow, quiet, all-consuming sense of despair. A sadness that I couldn't shake, even…