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TIFF Review: The Third Wife – “Stunning visuals”

Posted by on Sep 9, 2018 in All, drama, Film, indie, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

A 14-year old girl becomes the third wife of a wealthy landowner in 19th century rural Vietnam.  An arranged marriage occurs between the...

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TIFF Review: Sew the Winter to My Skin – “Fearless visual storytelling”

Posted by on Sep 9, 2018 in action, All, biopic, drama, Film, indie, Reviews, Western | 0 comments

Because of stealing livestock and giving to the poor John Kepe was hunted by white farmer colonists in South Africa during the 1950s. A...

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TIFF Review: The Factory

Posted by on Sep 9, 2018 in action, All, drama, Film, indie, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

When a factory is shutdown a group of former workers decide to kidnap and demand a ransom for the owner.  A disfigured military veteran...

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TIFF Review: Emu Runner

Posted by on Sep 8, 2018 in All, drama, Film, indie, Reviews | 0 comments

A 9-year old Aboriginal girl grieving the loss of her mother forms a spiritual bond with the fast running emu. Gem (Rhae-Kye Waites) runs...

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TIFF Review: Blind Spot

Posted by on Sep 8, 2018 in All, drama, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

A suicide attempt by a teenage girl shocks her parents. Two female high school students and handball teammates walk and talk together...

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TIFF Review: Phoenix

Posted by on Sep 8, 2018 in All, drama, Film, indie, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

A high school student looks after her brother and mentally ill mother; things seem to be looking better for them with a pending visit from...

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TIFF Review: The Kindergarten Teacher

Posted by on Sep 7, 2018 in All, drama, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

“In a couple of years you’ll be a shadow, just like me,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character Lisa tells her young...

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TIFF Review: Wildlife

Posted by on Sep 7, 2018 in All, drama, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

At times during Wildlife, you have to remind yourself that this is Paul Dano’s directorial debut.  An actor first, perhaps best...

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TIFF Review: Tito and the Birds

Posted by on Sep 5, 2018 in animated, drama, fantasy, Film, indie, Reviews | 0 comments

Like his father before him, a young boy believes that understanding bird songs is the key for curing the world from an epidemic of fear. A...

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TIFF’s Short Film Selection Packs an Emotional Punch

Posted by on Aug 29, 2018 in All, Film, Headline, News, short film | 0 comments

As a self professed critic, I’ve been writing in the public arena about film for about eight years now (we’ll forget the...

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