Paying for It

Hi Boxers, Sook-Yin Lee here--director, co-writer, and co-music composer of Paying For It. The last few weeks have been a whirling blurrr since premiering PFI at #TIff2024. Thank you for your warm embrace. You know, you make something and you never know how it will be…

Sook-Yin Lee

I enjoyed seeing a movie that strongly conveyed what the 100-year-old houses in Kensington Market feel like. You New Yorkers get a lot of movies that do justice to your city - it’s rarer for us Torontonians. I think Chester’s arrangement with “Denise” is ridiculous, but…

Will Sloan

feels like eavesdropping on a couple's dispute in public transit. it's not my business but i'm glad they're choosing to have the conversation where i can hear it

adelaide

Dan Beirne is the only leading man I wanna see on the big screen. And Andrea Werhun! Wow. A star is born. Their scenes together are so magnetic. Thoughtful, 90s Toronto time capsule that really makes me cry at the end. A very soulful, personal movie by Sook-Yin Lee; a…

Chandler Levack

Some movies would try and convince you of a flattened, Hollywood-ized version of Toronto that hasn't existed at all for 20 years and barely existed even back then, but this movie correctly asserts that the Real Toronto Cinema™️ will always first and foremost be about…

Lily Kazimiera

It’s like they waited for all the kids who worshipped Scott Pilgrim to get old enough to appreciate this. Infuriating that this will ultimately get buried in the depths of CBC Gem & Crave. It’s the kind of Canadian cinema that’s gonna break our stigma. I screamed when they…

Jaeden

Imagine going home with a super cool MuchMusic VJ only to find out she keeps a critically acclaimed cartoonist in her basement while he draws biographical comics about controversial Canadians... y2k Toronto had it all

SlimeEva

Comic book-accurate “prayer” technique. Made me think about how much I love my friends and my cat

mdfmdf

huge fan of the DBCU (Dan Beirne Cinematic Universe)

carley :)