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Seventh RowCanadaEp. 192. At the Place of Ghosts + Interview with writer-director Bretten Hannam On the podcast, Alex Heeney delves into how Bretten Hannam's At the Place of Ghosts uses genre to tell a story about two people healing from trauma who can't talk about it — and then talks to writer-director Hannam about

July 1

Seventh RowCanadaEp. 191. Why great TV asks for more than a binge On the podcast, Alex Heeney delves into what we miss about great TV when we binge — and how to reap those rewards on the first or second viewing, not ten years later.

July 1

Seventh RowCanadaQueer films are for kids, too: InsideOut 2026 Toronto's InsideOut Film Festival programs so many wonderful queer films — like Gugu's World and Black Burns Fast — about children for children, if only they could reach them.

May 27

Seventh RowCanadaCannes Review: Alexander Murphy’s Tin Castle lex Heeney reviews Alexander Murphy's observational documentary Tin Castle about a family of Irish Travellers. The film had its world premiere in the Cannes Critics' Week sidebar

May 18

Seventh RowCanadaCannes Review: Mahsa Karampour’s Into the Jaws of the Orge Mahsa Karampour's Cannes ACID documentary Into the Jaws of the Orge is a thoughtful story of exile and tentative reconnection.

May 18

Seventh RowCanadaReview: Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend Ildikó Enyedi's Silent Friend is one of the best films of the year.

May 15

Seventh RowCanadaHotDocs Review: Gregor Brändli’s Elephants and Squirrels Gregor Brändli's HotDocs documentary Elephants and Squirrels explores the repatriation of Sri Lankan artifacts from a Swiss museum — and how Sri Lankan artist Deneth Piumakshi Veda grapples with the issue in her work.

May 6

Seventh RowCanadaHotDocs Review: Let Our Mountains Live HotDocs documentary Let Our Mountains live shows injustice after injustice perpetrated by the Norwegian government in spite of the Supreme Court decisions.

May 6

Seventh RowCanadaEp. 190. Oslo, August 31st: Beginning and Ending On the podcast, Alex Heeney talks to Joachim Trier about the beginning of Oslo, August 31st and to Eskil Vogt about the ending of the film.

April 2

Cinepuuulse is a magazine, a radar and a diary about Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — read from Tokyo.

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku, the old word for the silver screen; it is the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. A magazine, because every week one film is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the region's screens are talking about — box office, festivals, directors, anime, streaming — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the local press in its own languages and bring it over in English: the Japanese film sites, the Korean trade papers, the Chinese culture desks, the Vietnamese and Thai entertainment pages. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Cinepuuulse will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If a film here made you want to buy a ticket, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。