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Posted by Joe Gordon on Sep 17, 2024
Review: Place of Bones – “a solid, interesting spin on the Western”
Directed by Audrey Cummings Starring Heather Graham, Brielle Robillard, Tom Hopper, Corin Nemec I’m a sucker for a Western, and it’s not a genre we see so much of these days – it has fallen far from its ruling the box office roost perch of the 1940s and 50s – but every now and then something interesting-looking comes along. In the case of Place of Bones, we get a film very much driven by the...
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Posted by Hillary Butler on Sep 17, 2024
TIFF 2024 Review: The Assessment – “Fortuné directs with assuredness and a clear vision.”
In a futuristic world, a voice reports atmospheric pressure and radioactivity statistics under ‘the dome.’ It’s a controlled environment, and in a world destroyed by climate change, the government has strict rules over resources. This also means it has strict population control measures in place. In order to have a child you must pass a seven-day assessment, a mysterious process that...
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Posted by Hillary Butler on Sep 17, 2024
TIFF 2024 Reviews: Matt and Mara, All of You
Two titles at the Toronto International Film Festival I viewed stood out as having similar themes. What happens when friends discover, or at least finally recognize, a deeper type of love exists? Both films have very different ways of tackling this notion, even if their conclusions may be similar. Director Kazik Radwanski knew he had to reunite with actors Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson after working...
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Posted by Hillary Butler on Sep 16, 2024
TIFF 2024 Review: The Fire Inside – “takes the typical formula of an underdog sports story and turns it on its head.”
In 2016, boxer Claressa Shields became the first, and only, American boxer to win back-to-back gold medals at the Olympic Games. She went from a young, silent girl growing up in Flint, Michigan, to a world champion. But what she had to overcome to get to the Olympics, and then even after her first gold medal win, is the basis of The Fire Inside. In 2006 Claressa ran from her faraway neighbourhood into a...
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Posted by Hillary Butler on Sep 16, 2024
TIFF 2024 Review: Babygirl – “an entirely different level of honesty”
There’s been a run of movies lately depicting younger men with women older than them, and I’m all for it considering for years we have seen the reverse on screen. Think of Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You, Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman in A Family Affair. But there are a lot of differences between these rom-coms and Babygirl, an erotic thriller/drama which stars Kidman...
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Posted by Trevor Hogg on Sep 16, 2024
TIFF 2024 Review: Emilia Pérez
A notorious drug kingpin wants to go through a sex change operation and start a new life as a woman. Tired of keeping guilty affluent clients from being convicted, Rita Moro finds herself abducted and offered a job by the ruthless narcotics dealer Manitas Del Monte; he has gone through a botched sex change operation and Rita has to find a suitable replacement doctor replacement quickly, otherwise, her...
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Posted by Trevor Hogg on Sep 16, 2024
TIFF 2024 Review: Riff Raff – “a missed opportunity.”
News Years Eve celebrations get interrupted for Vince and his family when a former criminal associate arrives seeks retribution. An opening shot of someone walking out of cabin held at gunpoint is underscored by a rather playful voiceover belonging to D.J., the stepson of Vince and offspring of Sandy. Flashbacks upon flashbacks occur to put the events and characters in proper context with the central...
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Posted by Trevor Hogg on Sep 16, 2024
TIFF 2024 Review: Do I Know You From Somewhere?
A couple seems to move in and out of each other’s life at random or is it caused by the intersection of two different relationship scenarios occurring at the same time? Things start appearing and disappearing while Olive and Benny are spending time at their lake house like a toy bunny, wooden wagon, and kitchen magnets. There are flashbacks to when the couple first met but also hints of a mysterious...
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Robert Pattinson is expendable in the trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17

Posted by Phil on Sep 18, 2024 in All, comedy, drama, Film, sci-fi, thriller, Trailers | 0 comments

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, Mickey 17. The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in...

That’s a Wrap for TIFF 2024

Posted by Trevor Hogg on Sep 17, 2024 in All, Film, News | 0 comments

Every year there is a question as to how the Toronto International Film Festival is going to work out and then another edition is over. At one point I was wondering if I was going to be able to attend because of...

The Fire Inside – Watch the trailer for the new boxing biopic

Posted by Phil on Sep 17, 2024 in All, biopic, drama, Film, sport, Trailers | 0 comments

THE FIRE INSIDE is the inspirational true story of Claressa Shields, arguably...

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Posted by Phil on Sep 17, 2024 in All, Books, drama, Film, Trailers | 0 comments

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Posted by Phil on Sep 17, 2024 in action, All, comedy, drama, Film, Trailers | 0 comments

Brothers tells the story of a reformed criminal (Josh Brolin) whose attempt at...

Last Straw – A waitress fights for her life in the trailer for the new thriller

Posted by Phil on Sep 17, 2024 in action, All, drama, Film, horror, thriller, Trailers | 0 comments

A young waitress working the overnight shift alone at a rural, roadside diner...

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Posted by Phil on Sep 17, 2024 in All, drama, Film, thriller, Trailers | 0 comments

Woman of the Hour is the new crime drama film directed by Anna Kendrick in her...

The LEGO Star Wars™ Jabba’s Sail Barge™ Set is heading our way

Posted by Phil on Sep 17, 2024 in All, Film, News | 0 comments

Today, the LEGO Group reveals the launch of the LEGO® Star Wars™ Jabba’s Sail...

What’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – September 17th, 2024 – Inside Out 2, Repo Man, Bringing Out The Dead, Succession and more

Posted by Mike Spring on Sep 17, 2024 in All, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews | Comments Off on What’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – September 17th, 2024 – Inside Out 2, Repo Man, Bringing Out The Dead, Succession and more

We have a lot of catalog releases this week, but some of them are really...