-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Girl Group
You would be forgiven if you didn’t realize that Girl Group was Rebel Wilson’s second turn in the director’s chair. Back in 2024, Wilson came to the Toronto International Film Festival with her directorial debut called The Deb. It was an original musical and a fairly solid film, however, it ended up embroiled in several legal battles that ended up burying its release (you can find it now on digital...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Idda – “Insolia and Vergano are very enigmatic and dynamic leads.”
Director Irene Dionisio dedicated her sophomore film Idda to her best friend, who suddenly passed away. Though she co-wrote the film with Marco Borromei, I hope that her friendship was less problematic than that of Adele (Tecla Insolia) and Sofia (Romana Maggiora Vergano). We meet the pair as Sofia returns to her hometown in Sicily. The two friends embrace, but it’s clear that the two haven’t seen each...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Up Against It – “There was so much potential here.”
The title card of Up Against It may have been strangely indicative of what was to come in Trudie Styler’s complicated misfire. Garish pink early 90’s style font up against the British parliament buildings is such a strange decision, just like many choices in the rest of the film. Up Against it is just tonally uneven, never really knowing whether it should lean into comedy or drama and therefore...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: The Liberation – “The film finds the emotional weight necessary to balance its dark premise with a profound sense of grace.”
Clarity. Honesty. Forgiveness. It’s what is promised on the business card handed to Rita Cooper (Carrie Coon) by a new customer at her bank. All she needs to do is head down to the beach after work to watch the sunset and have an open mind. Rita is a woman plagued by her present and her past. A child during the Holocaust, she watched her mother and sisters get ripped away. She survived, as did her...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Smudge the Blades
A rag-tag Indigenous hockey team is helped by a reluctant and unlikely coach. Kicked out of a top league, the Treaty 6 Blades need a new coach, who happens to be the local Zamboni driver, more motivated to bed a particular hockey mom than to put together a winning strategy on the ice. Each of the players comes with their own emotional baggage, along with being victims of rampant racism directed towards...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: The Diary of a Chambermaid
A Romanian migrant is a live-in housekeeper at the behest of her employers she prepares for an amateur production of The Diary of a Chambermaid. While working for an upper-class couple in France as a live-in housekeeper, Gianina has constant FaceTime chats with her daughter who longs for them to be reunited in Romania; her offspring is jealous that the boy of her employers gets more personal attention...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: La Gradiva – “A bittersweet examination of a formative period.”
A group of French teenagers are embarking on a class trip to Pompeii. They’re in their last year of high school and awaiting acceptance letters for the next step in their education. These are kids from different backgrounds and social statuses that may never hang out when they’re at school, so dynamics feel a little different, yet the cliques are still the same. They’re on the precipice of great change,...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Josephine – “compelling, uncomfortable and something I will not soon forget.”
Trigger warning: This film, and therefore this review will discuss sexual assault. Please take care while reading (and watching). There’s a movie that I’ve referenced a few times during this festival. Perhaps it’s just because I’ve watched a couple Scandinavian films, but it’s seemingly more for their subject matter, which often involves children and some version of trauma....
Recent News
Recent Trailers
Recent Reviews
Most Recent Articles
Cool Short: Marvel’s Riri Williams is the star of this film for MIT
For MIT’s latest announcement for Pi Day (March 14th), that’s the date...
Read More
Thousands of years ago it crashes, and The Thing: Artbook gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice
Celebrating the 35th anniversary of my all time favourite movie, John...
Read More
Riz Ahmed & Billie Piper are on the new poster for City of Tiny Lights
Meet Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed), cricket fan, devoted son to an ailing father...
Read More
How Hollywood Depicts the Life of a Gambler
Relying on movies to know more about the world is a big mistake. Hollywood is...
Read More
Top Retro Movies of the 60s
How about travelling back in time to discover some of the undisputed classic...
Read More2017 will be the Year of Franchise Revivals
Hollywood has been known to have a habit of “reusing old content”,...
Read More
Review – Kong: Skull Island – “Full of non-stop eye-popping and chest-beating monster bashing”
Kong: Skull Island is directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (‘The Kings of...
Read More
In Episode 42 of After The Ending we talk The Fifth Element & The Warriors and talk to Matt Damon
I co-host a podcast with Mike Spring. Called After The Ending, we talk about...
Read More
The Random – The Wizard of Oz, Gundam Wing, Deadpool 2, Labyrinth and more
New Line Cinema has scooped up a pitch from writer Mike Van Waes for an...
Read More
Best Movie Scenes with Books
March 2nd is World Book Day, and you might say the film industry owes a lot to...
Read More
Dominic Monaghan’s Pet is heading to Blu-ray, DVD & Digital
Dominic Monaghan, Ksenia Solo, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Parsons, John Ross...
Read More
The FrightFest Guide to Monster Movies is heading our way
FrightFest and FAB Press once again join forces to launch The FrightFest Guide...
Read More
Review: Logan – “We finally get to see Wolverine unleash his fury”
While I have enjoyed most of the X-Men movies, they have never captured the...
Read More
Review: Headshot – “A hyper violent and wonderfully excessively bloody Bourne-in-a-blender movie”
Headshot is an Indonesian action film that stars the breakout star of the ‘The...
Read More
Review: Trespass Against Us – “A powerful film that simmers in your mind”
For or those of us who regard cinema as an art of empathy and enlightenment,...
Read More
52 Films By Women: February
After a nasty cold had me bed-ridden for a four-day weekend, I pretty much hit...
Read More
Bill Paxton has died at the age of 61
Oh no! Bill Paxton – The man who faced Aliens, the Terminator and the...
Read More
Turning an outhouse into a media room
In the present day, people want to make the most of their home and property....
Read MoreLive for Films is one of the Top 10 UK Film Blogs
Follow Us
Support Live For Films
Film Festivals and Conventions
Recent Reviews
Recent Comments
Check out these other sites
Recent Short Films
Recent Posters
