Charli XCX wasn't kidding about how much she fucks with The Shrouds. Drops a video starring Vincent Cassel and then closes out her album with Cronenberg.
Radheyan Simonpillai
@justsayrad.bsky.social
Film Critic at CTV's Your Morning. Pop Culture Columnist at CBC Radio. Contributor: The Guardian, The Globe & Mail and more.
This was a really fun, enlightening chat about The Odyssey with @elamin.bsky.social @davidehrlich.bsky.social and Hanna Flint. youtu.be/-jon0DvXJFw?...
Weekly Wrap: Is The Odyssey Nolan's best film ever?
YouTube video by Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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The Odyssey (Round 2): I'll just stand by what I wrote here.
Radheyan Simonpillai@justsayrad.bsky.social · last mo.As someone who has always been more reserved in my praise for Christopher Nolan, I'm suprised to say how much I enjoyed The Odyssey and really felt the melancholy of it. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...
As someone who has always been more reserved in my praise for Christopher Nolan, I'm suprised to say how much I enjoyed The Odyssey and really felt the melancholy of it. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...
The Odyssey is an awe-inspiring spectacle
The making of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey aspires to be as monumental as the story being told
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Here's @kvanaren.bsky.social and @johnniejae.bsky.social with some beautiful insight on the new Little House On The Prairie. youtu.be/V8NndYr5z_k?...
Little House on the Prairie confronts its racist past
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here, have a nice time laughing at exactly the moment I lose control of my faculties and the several following seconds where I attempt to claw them back www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbHt...
Did The Bear land its finale?
YouTube video by Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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pls keep an eye out for today's episode of commotion on cbc when it goes online; you can enjoy @justsayrad.bsky.social accidentally calling eps of The Bear bottle episodes live on the radio, immediately regretting it, and my brain fully shorting out about what constitutes an appropriate reaction
I liked The Invite. It goes places in terms of relationship woes that I've only seen in real life. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...
The Invite is a bitterly funny marriage comedy that tries a bit too hard
The sharp marriage comedy is surprisingly perceptive on issues that plague modern marriage
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So that couple that scaled the Empire State Building have a Netflix doc I actually found mildly compelling. www.theguardian.com/film/article...
Skywalkers: A Love Story review – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary
A daredevil Russian couple who climb to the tops of skyscrapers make for both frustrating and thrilling protagonists in this hit-and-miss documentary
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"The move bucks the trend of studios getting ahead of professional reviews by inviting fan-site bloggers and influencers to see major releases in advance and then letting them post (often highly enthusiastic) mini reviews on social media." www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ to Skip Social Media Influencer Screenings
Universal is going straight to professional critic screenings rather than having the usual "word-of-mouth screenings" for social media.
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Supergirl: An impotent and incoherent attempt at bringing George Miller’s grimy diesel-and-rust aesthetic to James Gunn's house-style. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...
Almost everything about Supergirl feels tossed in or tossed aside
The adaptation of the Woman of Tomorrow comic book series is a mess
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Twenty five years ago today, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS hit theatres. If that quarter-century mark sounds crazy, that's because it genuinely is. So much so that I wrote a whole book about it, which I may have mentioned here once or twice. Happy 25, F&F. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/barry...
The rug that really tied the room together in The Big Lebowski is up for auction. Starting bid is $15,000 USD. entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv...
The angle we didn't see in the official FIFA broadcast. Elyanna and Jessie Reyez throwing it down with the keffiyehs during the opening ceremony in Toronto.
Reviewed Scary Movie and pondered what this franchise has to say in a post-Get Out world. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Scary Movie reheats old gags while celebrating Black horror with love and appreciation
Wayans brothers resurrect their franchise and pack it with over a decades’ worth of commentary and parody
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"I want to thank Scarborough for teaching me the three Fs. When to fight, when to be funny and when to flee." - Mike Myers at the Canadian Screen Awards
One Battle After Another Steelbook just landed.
The Yogurt Shop Murders was a probing docuseries about the shadow of a terrible unsolved crime that shook a community for decades. Then, just as it aired, the crime was finally solved. So Margaret Brown went back for an unexpected finale.
A Brilliant HBO Documentary Explored the Effects of an Unsolved Murder. Now, in Its Surprise Final Episode, the Case Is Solved.
The director of The Yogurt Shop Murders on its surprise final episode—and why the story still isn’t over.
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Tatiana Maslany challenges the idea that Canadians are peaceful in our interview for CBC Arts. www.cbc.ca/arts/maximum...
Left #Cannes too soon to catch La Bola Negra. So here's a write up on the festival I experienced before that: the early feelings of a hollowed out fest, the solidarity with Palestinians, my blindspots and faves. www.cbc.ca/arts/as-holl...
As Hollywood retreats, auteurs are back on top at Cannes | CBC Arts
At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, critic Rad Simonpillai sees a notable lack of Hollywood stars. What is present, however, is great filmmaking, glamorous parties, and actors and directors unafraid to ...
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Here's Leah Nelson, Lauren Miller Rogen and Seth Rogen on their "love letter to caregivers" and bringing their personal experiences with Alzheimer's to Tangles. www.cbc.ca/arts/the-can...
The Canadian animated film that has Cannes in tears | CBC Arts
Produced by Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen, Tangles is a star-studded movie about caring for a parent with Alzheimers that premiered in Cannes this week
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Taking a break from Cannes coverage to share my review of I Love Boosters, which feels like Boots Riley's cartoonish Bay area spin on Tout Va Bien. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
I Love Boosters review – Boots Riley’s absurdist shoplifting comedy is a mixed bag
The Sorry to Bother You director’s brash and outrageously funny new film, led by Keke Palmer, can be a little too scattershot to make an impact
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Late post: my CBC pop culture column on the Canadians and the star power (or lack thereof) at Cannes. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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My first print piece out of Cannes 2026. Spoke to Asia Argento and Jorge Thielen Armand about their haunting surrealist thriller about the history of violence in Venezuela, which they shot while Trump was sending warships to the coast. #cannes www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
‘It deals with my own blood, my inheritance’: Asia Argento on historical trauma in Death Has No Master
Cannes film festival: The actor’s role in Jorge Thielen Armand’s Venezuela-set surrealist thriller explores deep-rooted tensions of ownership and colonialism
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Tatiana Maslany on Canada's complicity in ongoing genocide.
Radheyan Simonpillai@justsayrad.bsky.social · 3mo agoI had such a blast watching Tatiana Maslany in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and talking to her about the show, and the last 10 years since her Emmy win, and Mark Carney talking about both sides of his mouth while sending weapons abroad. www.cbc.ca/arts/maximum...
I had such a blast watching Tatiana Maslany in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and talking to her about the show, and the last 10 years since her Emmy win, and Mark Carney talking about both sides of his mouth while sending weapons abroad. www.cbc.ca/arts/maximum...
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed star Tatiana Maslany dances between whimsy and the weight of the world | CBC Arts
The Canadian actor discusses surveillance, paranoia and Canadian hypocrisy on the world stage
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I had such a blast watching Tatiana Maslany in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and talking to her about the show, and the last 10 years since her Emmy win, and Mark Carney talking about both sides of his mouth while sending weapons abroad. www.cbc.ca/arts/maximum...
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed star Tatiana Maslany dances between whimsy and the weight of the world | CBC Arts
The Canadian actor discusses surveillance, paranoia and Canadian hypocrisy on the world stage
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Love how Ben Platt is here collaborating with Rachel Zegler, as if defying his family after they tried dragging her name through the mud for saying Free Palestine. deadline.com/2026/05/rach...
Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler & Ben Platt To Star In 'Last Dance' Movie
Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt will lead Karim Aïnouz's 'Last Dance,' a father-daughter story is produced by Lynette Howell Taylor.
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