All Too Well: The Short Film and the Hysteria
Considering the runtime, I expected each scene to hit harder as opposed to a series of montages and vignettes.

Stardom Nighter 2025 in Korakuen Jul. was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom, held on July 24, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. In the main event, wing☆gori (Hanan & Saya Iida, representing STARS) defended the Goddesses of Stardom Championship against BMI2000 (Natsuko Tora and Ruaka, representing H.A.T.E.), and the show also featured a NJPW STRONG Women's Championship defense from AZM against Bozilla.
Considering the runtime, I expected each scene to hit harder as opposed to a series of montages and vignettes.
If a movie about a strange and crazy day is commercially successful, why not recycle it and double the kookiness quotient? That seems to be the logic behind this followup to Freaky Friday.
Not only does the system prevent upward mobility, but it makes it incredibly easy to slide from comfortably middle class to unhoused.
Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.
The plot could’ve really been interesting if the elements of lycanthropy was integrated with perhaps the struggle of identity of being LGBTQ+. It's an experience for so many that as they’re starting to realizing their true selves, they feel like a monster, especially if they come from unsupportive homes or communities. Instead, the horror and transformation elements seem thrown in without contemplation of how this could deepen the narrative.
'Midnight at the Paradise' premieres tomorrow at Toronto's Paradise Theatre! I had the pleasure to sit down with Vanessa Matsui to discuss the making of this film.