Previewing Hot Docs! What's new/ what's good.

Carole Pope's Rough Ride - POV Magazine Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions explores the life, music, and legacy of the Rough Trade rocker who blew open doors for queer representation.

Carole Pope's Rough Ride: In our new cover story, Susan G. Cole looks at @hotdocs.bsky.social opener ANTIDIVA: THE CAROLE POPE CONFESSIONS, which explores the life and music of the Rough Trade rocker who blew open doors for queer representation. #HotDocs26 povmagazine.com/carole-popes...

The new Line 5 is really being a struggle bus. At Mount Pleasant Station, wait time for next train to Eglinton was 16 minutes this morning. The walk time between stations takes... less than 8 minutes. Get those steps in! 🚶‍♂️

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And with that, Drag Race jumps the shark.

TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for April 17 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Mile End Kicks, The Christophers, Little Lorraine, Roommates, Lorne, Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Amrum, and more!

This week in movies!

On MILE END KICKS 🕶️

"the vibe of those alt-weekly scenes feels eerily authentic" - @glennsumi.bsky.social

"Levack nails the look and feel of the place" - @peterhowellfilm.bsky.social

"realistic and effective" - Gilbert Seah
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All the Hot Docs 2026 Films We've Seen So Far: A Rundown from the Circuit - POV Magazine Hot Docs highlights: festival circuit favourites coming to Toronto include To Hold a Mountain, Jaripeo, Barbara Forever, Birds of War, and Time and Water.

Embargoed up the wazoo, but here are 15 or so festival circuit hits (and misses!) we already covered that are coming to Hot Docs. Esp. worth a look are Time and Water, Jaripeo, American Doctor, Barbara Forever, To Hold a Mountain, Black Zombie, and more! povmagazine.com/all-the-hot-...

It's that time of year! Seeking new Miranda Girl for POV. Fetch that Starbucks while it's piping hot.

Full line-up is out for this year's Blue Mountain Film + Media Fest! So excited for you guys to see what we have in store.

Big Mistakes is madcap fun.

about a month, it seems.

Made a pretty wild discovery today that there's a 'POV Europe'. This is not authorized or affiliated with us in any way. Does anyone have contact info for folks on this board of directors, if they even exist? (please send to pat[at]povmagazine.com] povmagazine.org/governance

Speechless Review: The Conversation that Nobody Wants to Have - POV Magazine Speechless review: Ric Esther Bienstock observes the fight for free speech on campuses and a microcosm of America's culture wars.

School campuses serve as battlegrounds amid the culture wars in #Speechless, a potent documentary that invites all parties into the conversation. povmagazine.com/speechless-r...

TFCA Friday: Movie Reviews for April 3 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for The Drama, Super Mario Bros Galaxy, M0y Undesirable Friends, Agatha's Almanac, The Blue Trail, Silver Screamers, and more.

This week in movies!

On THE DRAMA 💒

"worth pondering and discussing" - @peterhowellfilm.bsky.social

"marvellously squishy and unnerving" - Kim Hughes

"incredibly interesting and subversive" - @jacksonweaver.bsky.social
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Speechless. It was really good!

Nothing like the time honoured tradition of being the only person in a theatre for a Canadian film in opening weekend. 🇨🇦

Five and a half hours in one 10-minute hit: chatting My Undesirable Friends with Julia Lotkev! Good streaming for the long weekend.

I liked The Drama! You'll learn a lot about your friends while discussing it.

Silver Screamers Review - Meet 2026's Biggest Scare: Film Financing - POV Magazine Silver Screamers review: a group of senior citizens gamely takes on the challenge of making a horror movie in this age-defying tale of Final Girls and Guys.

Sometimes you have to make a horror movie to fund a documentary: Silver Screamers embraces the darkly comedic elements of its origins as a kind of Frankenstein’s monster of documentary filmmaking. povmagazine.com/silver-screa...

So much cream the printer won't know what to do with it.

What does it say about the state of documentary distribution when this week's theatrical releases are Tough Old Broads, Agatha's Almanac, and Silver Screamers? (No shade to those movies or the elderly. It's just curious when every other doc screens in Toronto, like, once and then disappears...)

Chatting with Canada's Oscar contender, Alireza Khatami, on The Things You Kill. Which you can now finally see in Canada after it played seemingly everywhere else.

Next issue coming soon. What a month.

I would like to know what folks love about Myki Meeks that inspires the histrionic psychosis. Don't see it. She's a one-note Drew Barrymore impersonator. No shade to DB but that's a limited schtick. The "looks", the "comedy", the "range"... this is the most bullshit Drag Race frontrunner yet

Go see Blue Heron this weekend, Toronto!

Getting some words from Mr. Rosi on BELOW THE CLOUDS!

Stop! That! Train! | Official Teaser | Bleecker Street YouTube video by Bleecker Street

Stop! That! Train! trailer: Start your engines, and let the Oscar race...begin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O9Z...

Coming Soon: POV Issue #125! - POV Magazine Subscribe today to receive POV #125 (Spring Summer 2026) and be among the first to read our stories covering the documentary beat.

Coming Soon: POV issue #125. Subscribe today to be among the first to read it! 📬 povmagazine.com/coming-soon-...

How The AI Doc Brings a Human Touch to an Existential Crisis - POV Magazine An interview with Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell on The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist about confronting the new reality of AI.

"Just go outside and touch grass."

Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell join us to talk about THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST and confronting the existential crisis posed by AI. povmagazine.com/how-the-ai-d...

Here we go again!

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Been snowed under with grant writing and had to laugh so hard when I realized they removed the component of the application for print magazines that assess...the actual print magazine. Even they prefer to read it on the web!