March 28, 2025

WIFF’S WEEKEND WATCH LIST — 3/28

Check out our recommendations of what to watch this weekend.

if you want are loving parker posey on the white lotus

the house of yes

Vincent Georgie: The buzzy series’ wild 3^rd season has offered a veritable buffet of fun performances. Many are rejoicing over the hysterically neurotic comedic stylings of Parker Posey. A fixture of the 90s American indie scene, take a look at her highly original work as a Jackie-0 obsessed young woman. The dark comedic tone here should appeal to Posey’s fans.

Synopsis: A man (Josh Hamilton) and his fiancee (Tori Spelling) visit his warped clan, complete with dark mansion and incestuous twin sister (Parker Posey).

Available on Amazon Prime.

if you want a good popcorn movie

last breath

Vincent Georgie: This is a great choice for a suspenseful, entertaining Friday night watch. It never bores and certainly earns the chills that it provides. A fun one.

Synopsis: The true story of seasoned deep-sea divers who battle the raging elements to rescue a crewmate who’s trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface.

Available on YouTube.

if you want an oldie but a goodie

the color of money

Vincent Georgie: An Oscar-winning turn by Paul Newman, an ever-appealing Tom Cruise, a sharp script, and Martin Scorsese brilliantly directing a film everyone has forgotten he directed, this title is a great choice if you want to revisit an old friend of a film.

Synopsis: Former pool hustler “Fast Eddie” Felson (Paul Newman) decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise) and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent’s showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.

Available on Apple TV, Disney+, YouTube, and Amazon Prime.

DOUBLE FEATURE

canadian films on the world’s stage

Vincent Georgie: With a love of Canada particularly on our collective minds, let’s look at two films that shone very brightly not just at home but all over the world. The first film by the illustrious Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan received the Grand Prix at Cannes and went on to receive 2 Oscar nominations for Egoyan later that year. It’s one of the greatest Canadian films ever made. The second film is the exciting, innovative, high-energy masterwork in the prodigiously talented Xavier Dolan’s filmography. It took the Jury Prize at Cannes that year, in addition to heaps of awards around the world. Both of these films represent universally acknowledged Canadian excellence.

the sweet hereafter

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer (Ian Holm) arrives to help the survivors’ and victims’ families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident (Sarah Polley) has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

Available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and The Criterion Channel.

mommy

A peculiar neighbour (Suzanne Clément) offers hope to a recent widow (Anne Dorval) who is struggling to raise a teenager (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.