Review: Strawberry Mansion – “A weird, mad and uniquely lovely surreal romantic-adventure”
The cute mind-melter, Strawberry Mansion, is written and directed by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley and also starring Audley,...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Empire of Light – “Olivia Colman is an acting powerhouse”
A lonely mentally ill movie theatre employee living in an English seaside town in the early 1980s learns about the power of friendship and...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Baby Ruby – “There are powerful themes explored”
“Nothing’s going to be any different. It’s just a baby,” says Josephine (Noémie Merlant, Portrait of a Lady on...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Plan 75 – “A quiet, contemplative and largely unsentimental film”
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...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: The Whale – “An intimate and heartbreaking film”
In an essay about Moby Dick, a writer describes the whale as a ‘large, emotionless animal.’ It’s a writing that when...
Read MoreDamien Chazelle’s Babylon gets a trailer
“Always make a scene!” From Damien Chazelle, BABYLON is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – “A film full of abundant laughs and so many cameos”
“What. Is. Happening?” It was a question I asked myself in disbelief more than once while watching Weird: The Al Yankovic...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: The Fabelmans – “A love letter to cinema”
In 1952, a young boy is being taken to his first movie. And he’s scared. He doesn’t know what to expect. He doesn’t...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Susie Searches – “A lot of fun and nothing overly serious”
As a young girl in Ohio, Susie (Kiersey Clemons) and her mother would read detective novels together. The only problem was, Susie would...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: The Swimmers – “A decent crowd pleaser”
According to the end credits of The Swimmers, it is estimated that there are 30 million refugees worldwide, half of which are under the...
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