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TIFF 2022 Review: Paris Memories – “A character-driven film that is crafted with care and sensitivity”

TIFF 2022 Review: Paris Memories – “A character-driven film that is crafted with care and sensitivity”

Posted by on Sep 19, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

On November 13, 2015 in Paris a series of co-ordinated attacks by terrorists killed 130 people.  Director and co-writer Alice...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Causeway – “A sensitive and significant portrayal of the different ways we deal with trauma and grief”

TIFF 2022 Review: Causeway – “A sensitive and significant portrayal of the different ways we deal with trauma and grief”

Posted by on Sep 17, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

When Lynsey (Jennifer Lawrence) went to Afghanistan as part of the US Army Corps of Engineers she didn’t expect to return home this...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Empire of Light – “Beautiful and elegant”

TIFF 2022 Review: Empire of Light – “Beautiful and elegant”

Posted by on Sep 16, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

It’s 1980, on the verge of ’81, in a town on the southern coast of England.  Across from the ocean, stands The Empire, a beautiful old...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Women Talking – “Sarah Polley’s masterpiece”

TIFF 2022 Review: Women Talking – “Sarah Polley’s masterpiece”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Note: The following review has mentions of sexual abuse and violence “What follows is an act of female imagination,” states a...

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TIFF 2022 Review: The Good Nurse – “Intense and thought-provoking”

TIFF 2022 Review: The Good Nurse – “Intense and thought-provoking”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Adapted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Oscar nominated for 1917) from a book by Charles Graeber, The Good Nurse tells the true story of Charles...

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TIFF 2022 Review: What’s Love Got to Do With It? – “An elevated and welcome new slant on the rom-com genre”

TIFF 2022 Review: What’s Love Got to Do With It? – “An elevated and welcome new slant on the rom-com genre”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2022 in All, comedy, Film, Headline, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

In the tradition of Richard Curtis British rom-coms like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually comes What’s Love Got to Do...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Baby Ruby – “There are powerful themes explored”

TIFF 2022 Review: Baby Ruby – “There are powerful themes explored”

Posted by on Sep 14, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

“Nothing’s going to be any different. It’s just a baby,” says Josephine (Noémie Merlant, Portrait of a Lady on...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Plan 75 – “A quiet, contemplative and largely unsentimental film”

TIFF 2022 Review: Plan 75 – “A quiet, contemplative and largely unsentimental film”

Posted by on Sep 14, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

The population of the world is getting older.  Where I live, in 2012 one in seven Canadians was a senior. By 2030 it will be almost one in...

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TIFF 2022 Review: The Whale – “An intimate and heartbreaking film”

TIFF 2022 Review: The Whale – “An intimate and heartbreaking film”

Posted by on Sep 13, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, Theatre | 0 comments

In an essay about Moby Dick, a writer describes the whale as a ‘large, emotionless animal.’  It’s a writing that when...

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TIFF 2022 Review – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – “A film full of abundant laughs and so many cameos”

TIFF 2022 Review – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – “A film full of abundant laughs and so many cameos”

Posted by on Sep 13, 2022 in All, biopic, comedy, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

“What. Is. Happening?” It was a question I asked myself in disbelief more than once while watching Weird: The Al Yankovic...

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