Bond Blog: Skyfall – A James Bond Retrospective
It was the bad luck of the James Bond series to always be in some kind of limbo. There were court cases, studio disputes, writers’...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Devotion
Rising through the ranks of U.S. Navy fighter pilots is Jesse Brown who was the first African-American aviator to graduate from the basic...
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 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 MoreUS Blu-ray and DVD Releases: Real Genius, Lightyear, Magnum P.I., Canadian Bacon, Drive, Flowers In The Attic: The Origin, Young Sheldon and more
The focus this week is on new titles, with a few TV-on-DVD and catalog offerings thrown into the mix. Take a look at what’s on shelves...
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...
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