Jason Filiatrault

@feelcanadian.com

Occasionally award-winning filmmaker and curious oddball. http://www.feelcanadian.com https://letterboxd.com/jfiliatrault/

New Spider-Man is occasionally incredible and visually so far above the other Holland entries. But... oof, it has a real villain problem at the core, a complete lack of drive and narrative focus, and seems to get randomly bored by the very ideas it offers up.

10 DAYS (!!!) until my movie "ALL NIGHT WRONG" hits some theatres somewhere and digital across the US and Canada. If you can go see it on a big screen, please do, it's fun. If you can't, please watch it at home. If you can't watch it at home, please rent it and then lie about watching it.

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Westjet is why you should try to choose an airline based on how well they treat their employees. Do they respect the union? Good, then you probably won't get stranded while the company shows it's whole ass.

Was talking yesterday about the definitive Canadian films from specific Canadian cities. Last Night for Toronto? My Winnipeg for… Obviously. Waydowntown for Calgary. But we couldn’t think of one for Edmonton. Any thoughts?

Trying a cool new thing where I only post about my failures. Got rejected for development funding because jury felt I didn't know how long it took to write a script or get a film into development.

Gonna rage/vague post for a second - but literally nothing you do will ever be enough to get respect from cool kids who think they are better than you. The only thing that will change their minds is you succeeding without them. And by then you won't care.

<me, watching lit critics and translators argue with film nerds and everyone trying to deep dive into poetic epics in an effort to remain part of the discourse> "This is the future liberals want."

Told my 5 year old daughter about the Samantha Morton scene in The Odyssey and she laughed about it and I said "it's not funny. what if that happened to you?" and she said it would never happen to her because she "would be the witch" and I'm very proud.

Sharing good news is fun, but it's important to also share that yesterday I got super-duper rejected for development funding on a couple projects I really love and that sucks. But we carry on because what else can we do.