VIFF 2026 is officially over! Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as they share some thoughts about this year’s festival, count down our top 5 festival favourites and also check-in on some recent releases. While she was unable to join us, Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) also shares her top 5 favourites of the fest.

Steve’s Top 5

5. Fjord
4. Possible Love
3. The Debut
2. Wicker
1. Behemoth!

Marina’s Top 5

5. The Liberation
4. Queen at Sea
3. The History of Concrete
2. Rose
1. Tangles

Bill’s Top 5

5. Club Kid
4. Wicker
3. Every Time
2. Tangles
1. All of a Sudden

Melissa’s Top 5

5. Rose
4. Smudge the Blades
3. Possible Love
2. Seventeen
1. Tangles

We’ve also been watching…

• The Stunt Driver
• Digger
• The Social Reckoning
• Other Mommy
• Heart of the Beast
• Avengers: Endgame
• Animals
• The Uprising
• Unabomber
• Primetime
• Boorman and the Devil
• The Love Hypothesis
• Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
• Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?
• “VisionQuest“
• “Carrie“

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00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
03:28 – VIFF thoughts
17:22 – VIFF Top 5s
48:14 – What we’ve been watching
01:34:19 – Coming soon
01:44:25 – Closing thoughts & credits

From first to last…. once again coming at you from the lobby of the Vancouver Playhouse, crammed between screenings, we bring you the last of this year’s VIFF dispatches. Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) check in on the final day of the festival with some quick thoughts on a selection of titles.

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Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) and Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website) found themselves on a Vancouver talking about some of the highlights of Steve’s festival so far including thoughts on Tender Loving Care, Paper Tiger and one of Steve’s favourite movies of the year so far, The Debut.

VIFF continues until October 11. Schedule and tickets at viff.org.

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The second dispatch of VIFF is coming at you from a patio on Granville Island on day 4 of the festival. Today,  Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) check in on a plethora of new titles including The Liberation.

VIFF continues until October 11. Schedule and tickets at viff.org.

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From the lobby of the Vancouver Playhouse, crammed between screenings, we bring you the first of this year’s VIFF dispatch. Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) check in on day 3 of the festival with some quick thoughts on a selection of titles including a pair of festival faves: Fjord and Fatherland.

VIFF continues until October 11. Schedule and tickets at viff.org.

We can also be contacted via email – info@atcpod.ca

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We’re probably a bit too excited over this week’s movie but then, the team loves a good bit of horror and Zach Cregger is pretty good at these! Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as they delve into Resident Evil before digging into a bit of discussion about the Vancouver International Film Festival which kicks off on October 1st.

Also mentioned this episode is Zack Snyder’s head-to-head movie ranking which you can see here. You’re warned though, it’s not great.

• Resident Evil

Steve’s VIFF Picks

• The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
• The Debut
• Tender Loving Care
• Fatherland

Marina’s VIFF Picks

• Freaks Part II
• Nobody’s Violence
• Pocket Mirror
• Queen at Sea
• Paper Tiger

Bill’s VIFF Picks

• La Bola Negra
• Run Terry Run / Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story
• All of a Sudden
• Club Kid
• Fjord

Melissa’s VIFF Picks

• Reclaim My Skin
• Whatcha Want
• Possible Love
• Seventeen
• Tangles

We can also be contacted via email – info@atcpod.ca

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00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
03:09 – Resident Evil
17:22 – VIFF
01:08:12 – Closing thoughts & credits

While we didn’t come to a consensus on a movie this week, we all ended up watching the same one… and it wasn’t even the good one!

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as they delve into Ridley Scott’s latest release, the marvel that is Coyote vs. Acme and a batch of other new and recent releases.

• The Dog Stars
• Coyote vs. Acme
• Insidious: The Red Door
• Insidious: Out of the Further
• Buddy
• By Any Means
• Late Fame
• Teenage Wasteland
• Suze
• Mayday
• One of Them Days
• You’re Dating a Narcissist!
• Motor City
• The Whisper Man
• Finding Emily
• Onslaught
• Control
• The Wrong Girls
• I Want Your Sex
• “Silo“
• “Furious“
• “Lanterns“

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00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
04:16 – Tony
19:50 – What we’ve been watching
01:00:20 – Coming Soon
01:12:07 – Closing thoughts & credits

It’s been a quiet few weeks on the movie front but trust the team to find something great to talk about!

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) as they dig into Matt Johnson’s latest release Tony, while Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) joins with her one film (but it’s a great one!).

• Tony
• Don’t Say Good Luck
• In the Grey
• The End of Oak Street
• Forbidden Fruits
• It Ends
• Ella McCay
• The Fast and the Furious
• The Wrong Girls
• The Rivals of Amziah King
• Mutiny
• Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
• “Lanters“
• “The Hawk“

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00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
04:16 – Tony
19:50 – What we’ve been watching
01:00:20 – Coming Soon
01:12:07 – Closing thoughts & credits

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as the team assembles for a deep dive into the continued Tom Holland/Zendaya summer take-over, this time Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

• Spider-Man: Brand New Day
• One Night Only
• The Invite
• Super Troopers 3
• The Last House
• The Wrong Girls
• Supergirl
• Power Ballad
• Leviticus
• Evil Dead Burn
• I Want Your Sex
• Soulm8te
• “Industry“

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00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
01:25 – Spider-Man: Brand New Day
22:14 – What we’ve been watching
01:04:00 – Coming Soon
01:20:28 – Closing thoughts & credits

2026 is proving to be a summer movie desert with big tentpoles being few and far between but this week, we took in the biggest of the summer movies.

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as we talk The Odyssey and a few other titles.

• The Odyssey
• André is an Idiot
• 72 Hours
• Vulcanizadora
• Face/Off
• Zodiac
• Supergirl
• Jackasss: Best and Last
• Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
• The Invite
• Evil Dead Burn
• The Furious
• Camp
• Corporate Retreat
• Wasteman
• Her Private Hell
• Two Prosecutors
• I Love Boosters
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• AntiDiva: The Carole Pope Confessions
• Ladies First
• A Toxic Love Story
• Over Your Dead Body
• Apex
• “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed“

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00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
01:12 – The Odyssey
24:27 – What we’ve been watching
34:41 – Coming Soon
01:34:18 Closing thoughts & credits