DVD/Blu-ray Review: Weathering With You
A runaway teenager does not find Tokyo to be a hospitable place until he meets a girl with the ability to change the weather. Things do...
Read MoreVirtual 2020 TIFF Awards Announced
My ninth year of covering the Toronto International Film Festival reflected a dramatic shift in viewing habits that existed before the...
Read MoreTIFF 2020 Review: The Water Man
Gunner (Lonnie Chavis) is an adolescent trying to cope with the fact that his beloved mother (Rosario Dawson) is dying from leukemia and...
Read MoreTIFF 2020 Review: I Am Greta
What started as a personal crusade for Greta Thunberg in front of the Swedish parliament buildings to bring attention to climate change...
Read MoreTIFF 2020 Review: The Truffle Hunters
Truffles are a prized commodity in the culinary world and entire industry has been built around finding and procuring them. Having the...
Read MoreTIFF 2020 Review – Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds – “Gorgeous and scary”
Reteaming with Cambridge professor Clive Oppenheimer, filmmaker Werner Herzog explores the environmental and societal impact of meteors...
Read MoreTIFF 2020 Review: Concrete Cowboy
Expelled from yet another school for fighting, Cole (Caleb McLaughlin) is taken to live with his estranged father (Idris Elba) who lives...
Read MoreTIFF 2020 Review: The Best is Yet to Come – “Compelling”
Lacking a college education and residential status Han Dong (White K) tries to get a job as a reporter in Beijing Without the necessary...
Read MoreTIFF 2020 Review: MLK/FBI
Recently declassified FBI documents illuminate the surveillance conducted in an effort to neutralize the domestic impact and influence of...
Read MoreTIFF 2020 Review: City Hall – “Making the world all the more understandable and fascinating”
Frederick Wiseman explores how the municipality of Boston operates and interacts both at governmental and community levels. Frederick...
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