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TIFF 2022 Review: Prisoner’s Daughter – “A pretty straightforward family drama”

TIFF 2022 Review: Prisoner’s Daughter – “A pretty straightforward family drama”

Posted by on Sep 20, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Not having heard from her father, Max (Brian Cox) for over a decade, Maxine (Kate Beckinsale) is surprised, and not particularly happy, to...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Paris Memories – “A character-driven film that is crafted with care and sensitivity”

TIFF 2022 Review: Paris Memories – “A character-driven film that is crafted with care and sensitivity”

Posted by on Sep 19, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

On November 13, 2015 in Paris a series of co-ordinated attacks by terrorists killed 130 people.  Director and co-writer Alice...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Causeway – “A sensitive and significant portrayal of the different ways we deal with trauma and grief”

TIFF 2022 Review: Causeway – “A sensitive and significant portrayal of the different ways we deal with trauma and grief”

Posted by on Sep 17, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

When Lynsey (Jennifer Lawrence) went to Afghanistan as part of the US Army Corps of Engineers she didn’t expect to return home this...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Empire of Light – “Beautiful and elegant”

TIFF 2022 Review: Empire of Light – “Beautiful and elegant”

Posted by on Sep 16, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

It’s 1980, on the verge of ’81, in a town on the southern coast of England.  Across from the ocean, stands The Empire, a beautiful old...

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TIFF 2022 Review: 1899

TIFF 2022 Review: 1899

Posted by on Sep 16, 2022 in All, drama, fantasy, horror, Reviews, thriller, TV | 1 comment

Review of the first two episodes. Possible spoilers ahead. A passenger ship carrying immigrants from Europe to New York City discovers a...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Women Talking – “Sarah Polley’s masterpiece”

TIFF 2022 Review: Women Talking – “Sarah Polley’s masterpiece”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Note: The following review has mentions of sexual abuse and violence “What follows is an act of female imagination,” states a...

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TIFF 2022 Review: The Good Nurse – “Intense and thought-provoking”

TIFF 2022 Review: The Good Nurse – “Intense and thought-provoking”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Adapted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Oscar nominated for 1917) from a book by Charles Graeber, The Good Nurse tells the true story of Charles...

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TIFF 2022 Review: What’s Love Got to Do With It? – “An elevated and welcome new slant on the rom-com genre”

TIFF 2022 Review: What’s Love Got to Do With It? – “An elevated and welcome new slant on the rom-com genre”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2022 in All, comedy, Film, Headline, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

In the tradition of Richard Curtis British rom-coms like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually comes What’s Love Got to Do...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Devotion

TIFF 2022 Review: Devotion

Posted by on Sep 15, 2022 in action, All, biopic, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, war | 0 comments

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...

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TIFF 2022 Review: Empire of Light – “Olivia Colman is an acting powerhouse”

TIFF 2022 Review: Empire of Light – “Olivia Colman is an acting powerhouse”

Posted by on Sep 14, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

A lonely mentally ill movie theatre employee living in an English seaside town in the early 1980s learns about the power of friendship and...

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