Bruce McDonald's Weirdos (2016) is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi. It is showing from June 23 - July 23, 2018 in the United States.Bruce McDonald’s Weirdos is a beautiful and poignant lament to the loss of adolescence. Set in Nova Scotia in 1976, shot in crisp black and white, and apportioning much of its screen time to meditative close-ups on characters’ faces, Weirdos is a coming-of-age road movie that delicately explores the lives of its teenage protagonists, Kit (Dylan Authors) and Alice (Julia Sarah Stone), over the course of a single weekend. Kit, played by the boyishly awkward and sparkling Authors, decides to leave his unconventional family home where he lives with his single father (Allan Hawco) and matriarchal grandmother (Cathy Jones), to hitchhike with his girlfriend Alice to Sydney, in the hopes of reuniting with his absent but deified mother (Molly Parker). Kit packs a small suitcase, but is intent on a permanent move.
- 6/23/2018
- MUBI
Author: Steven Neish
It’s the summer of 1976, and in small-town Nova Scotia Kit (Dylan Authors) is looking to run away from home with his girlfriend Alice (Julia Sarah Stone) in order to reunite with his estranged mother Laurie (Molly Parker). The pair are led, in a fashion, by Andy Warhol (Rhys Bevan-John), an idol of Kit’s who occasionally manifests as his self-appointed spirit guide. At first Kit struggles to articulate his reasons for leaving, though it’s clear that it has something to do with his father Dave (Allan Hawco). However with time and distance he begins to understand his heart’s true desire, and unlike Alice it isn’t to finally consummate their relationship.
Shot in black and white, Weirdos is already pretty unusual even before it introduces an imaginary Andy Warhol — or Not Andy Warhol, as he is later credited after suggesting that he might actually...
It’s the summer of 1976, and in small-town Nova Scotia Kit (Dylan Authors) is looking to run away from home with his girlfriend Alice (Julia Sarah Stone) in order to reunite with his estranged mother Laurie (Molly Parker). The pair are led, in a fashion, by Andy Warhol (Rhys Bevan-John), an idol of Kit’s who occasionally manifests as his self-appointed spirit guide. At first Kit struggles to articulate his reasons for leaving, though it’s clear that it has something to do with his father Dave (Allan Hawco). However with time and distance he begins to understand his heart’s true desire, and unlike Alice it isn’t to finally consummate their relationship.
Shot in black and white, Weirdos is already pretty unusual even before it introduces an imaginary Andy Warhol — or Not Andy Warhol, as he is later credited after suggesting that he might actually...
- 2/20/2017
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There’s a rope of dramatic tension at the heart of Bruce McDonald’s new film, “Weirdos,” that’s as fascinating in theory as it is frustrating in practice, found in the emotional gap between a young man, Kit (Dylan Authors), and his father, Dave (Allan Hawco). Kit is gay. Dave is an unassuming homophobe. “Weirdos” starts off with Kit and his “girlfriend,” Alice (Julia Sarah Stone), taking a Nova Scotian road trip from Antigonish to Sydney, where Kit’s mother (Molly Parker) resides, having divorced Dave prior to the events of the film; Kits wants to live with his mom for ostensible reasons that have nothing to do with Dave’s prejudices, while Dave remains utterly oblivious to his son’s discomfort (and, for a time, even his very disappearance, to boot).
Continue reading Bruce McDonald’s ‘Weirdos’ Meanders Around Its Dramatic Center [Berlin Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Bruce McDonald’s ‘Weirdos’ Meanders Around Its Dramatic Center [Berlin Review] at The Playlist.
- 2/15/2017
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Canadian director Bruce McDonald’s new film Weirdos bowed in the fall at the Toronto Film Festival and was just nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards. Now the coming-of-age pic is hitting the Berlin Film Festival, where it will play in the Generation 14plus section fittingly on Valentine’s Day. House Of Cards‘ Molly Parker, Alan Hawco, Julia Sarah Stone and Dylan Authors star in the pic written by Daniel McIvor. Set in 1976 Novia Scotia during the weekend of…...
- 2/3/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: The Bruce McDonald feature screens in the Berlinale and is up for six Canadian Screen Awards including best picture.
Jason Moring’s Toronto-based sales agent has come to handle the world on the coming-of-age story by Canadian director Bruce McDonald.
Moring and his team at Ddi will introduce Weirdos at the Efm in Berlin next month on the occasion of its European premiere in Generation 14Plus.
The film is nominated for six 2017 Canadian Screen Awards including best picture, best editing for Duff Smith, best screenplay for Daniel MacIvor, best supporting actress for Molly Parker, best costume for Bethana Briffet, and best production design for Matt Likely.
It premiered in Toronto last September and takes place in Nova Scotia 1976 during the weekend of the American Bicentennial as a 15-year-old boy and his girlfriend attempt to hitchhike into a new future until a stunning realisation changes his life forever.
Molly Parker, Alan Hawco, Julia Sarah Stone...
Jason Moring’s Toronto-based sales agent has come to handle the world on the coming-of-age story by Canadian director Bruce McDonald.
Moring and his team at Ddi will introduce Weirdos at the Efm in Berlin next month on the occasion of its European premiere in Generation 14Plus.
The film is nominated for six 2017 Canadian Screen Awards including best picture, best editing for Duff Smith, best screenplay for Daniel MacIvor, best supporting actress for Molly Parker, best costume for Bethana Briffet, and best production design for Matt Likely.
It premiered in Toronto last September and takes place in Nova Scotia 1976 during the weekend of the American Bicentennial as a 15-year-old boy and his girlfriend attempt to hitchhike into a new future until a stunning realisation changes his life forever.
Molly Parker, Alan Hawco, Julia Sarah Stone...
- 1/30/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Weirdos, the latest film from the quintessentially Canadian auteur Bruce McDonald, is on its face just another road trip comedy with the spirit of Andy Warhol, but this time Warhol actually appears on screen — although for legal reasons, per the credits, Rhys Bevan-John plays “Not Andy Warhol.” It’s the summer of 1976 in Nova Scotia when Kit (Dylan Authors) takes out on the road with his radiant pal Alice (Julia Sarah Stone). She’s as confused as he is when she asks if they’ll be having “goodbye sex,” something they’ve been putting off for an obvious reason.
Kit and Alice bum rides, walk, and hitchhike from Antigonish to the shore where Kit hopes to escape his father’s unkind words at home and move in with his mother Laura (Molly Parker), a hippy who regrets she ever moved out of Toronto. She’s presumably more open-minded than his...
Kit and Alice bum rides, walk, and hitchhike from Antigonish to the shore where Kit hopes to escape his father’s unkind words at home and move in with his mother Laura (Molly Parker), a hippy who regrets she ever moved out of Toronto. She’s presumably more open-minded than his...
- 9/19/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Veteran Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald has effectively moved between film and television over the course of his career, helming movies such as Pontypool, The Tracey Fragments, and Picture Claire, as well as episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation, Queer as Folk, and Bomb Girls. His involvement in a project garners added interest, and such was also the case with his next feature. Titled The Husband, McDonald directs from a script by Kelly Harms and Maxwell McCabe-Lokos. McCabe-Lokos also stars in the feature, working alongside Sarah Allen, August Diehl, and Dylan Authors. A full trailer for the film has now been released, and can be seen below.
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- 2/19/2014
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
When Falling Skies viewers last saw Ben Mason, he was looking back on the spot where an alien with one red eye had just… hypnotized him? Implanted messages inside his brain? Read his mind?
Something unusual and dangerous had just taken place to conclude "Compass." Can Connor Jessup clarify it a bit for fans?
"It's not a mind wipe," the actor simply teased to me on the phone this week. "It's as close to a mind wipe as you can get."
Falling Skies Promo: "Young Bloods"
While Ben's interactions with Red Eye remain a mystery, it's been made clear through three Season 2 episodes that a lot has changed for this young man, with Jessup explaining that those three months between seasons "were not kind to Ben."
"The Second Mass has lost a lot of people," the actor said. "He's started fighting in actual battles, it's the equivalent of entering a war zone at all times…...
Something unusual and dangerous had just taken place to conclude "Compass." Can Connor Jessup clarify it a bit for fans?
"It's not a mind wipe," the actor simply teased to me on the phone this week. "It's as close to a mind wipe as you can get."
Falling Skies Promo: "Young Bloods"
While Ben's interactions with Red Eye remain a mystery, it's been made clear through three Season 2 episodes that a lot has changed for this young man, with Jessup explaining that those three months between seasons "were not kind to Ben."
"The Second Mass has lost a lot of people," the actor said. "He's started fighting in actual battles, it's the equivalent of entering a war zone at all times…...
- 6/29/2012
- by matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
- TVfanatic
Ep. 201 “Worlds Apart”
Ep. 202 “Shall We Meet At The River”
There were no two bigger ratings-grabbers on basic cable last year than The Walking Dead and Falling Skies. Both post-apocalyptic survival stories, but one is because of zombies, and the other is from aliens. The Walking Dead questions if humanity can survive the pursuit of an unknown, relentless enemy. Falling Skies, which premiered Sunday, asks similar questions through a sci-fi-military filter and with an enemy that our protagonists can see and combat. The first season followed a group of refugees from Boston comprised of bits and pieces of a makeshift army, a band of renegades and citizens who have taken to an all-out war. At first they are just trying to stay alive, but by the end of the season, they are given hope–a small understanding of the invaders’, their intentions and an idea of how to defeat them.
Ep. 202 “Shall We Meet At The River”
There were no two bigger ratings-grabbers on basic cable last year than The Walking Dead and Falling Skies. Both post-apocalyptic survival stories, but one is because of zombies, and the other is from aliens. The Walking Dead questions if humanity can survive the pursuit of an unknown, relentless enemy. Falling Skies, which premiered Sunday, asks similar questions through a sci-fi-military filter and with an enemy that our protagonists can see and combat. The first season followed a group of refugees from Boston comprised of bits and pieces of a makeshift army, a band of renegades and citizens who have taken to an all-out war. At first they are just trying to stay alive, but by the end of the season, they are given hope–a small understanding of the invaders’, their intentions and an idea of how to defeat them.
- 6/19/2012
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
Chicago – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV, we have 35 admit-two passes up for grabs to the Chicago VIP early screening party for TNT’s new sci-fi series “Falling Skies” from executive producer Steven Spielberg! Star Noah Wyle will be in attendance for a Q&A! “Falling Skies” premieres on TNT on June 19, 2011 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.
Each winner will see the premiere episode of the show before it airs, participate in a Q&A with Noah Wyle (“ER”) and enjoy complimentary soda, popcorn and prizes! “Falling Skies” also features Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda and Dylan Authors from creator Robert Rodat.
To win your free VIP pass to the Chicago advance-screening party for “Falling Skies” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This party is on Tuesday,...
Each winner will see the premiere episode of the show before it airs, participate in a Q&A with Noah Wyle (“ER”) and enjoy complimentary soda, popcorn and prizes! “Falling Skies” also features Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda and Dylan Authors from creator Robert Rodat.
To win your free VIP pass to the Chicago advance-screening party for “Falling Skies” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This party is on Tuesday,...
- 5/24/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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