TIFF Review: Firecrackers
For two girls living in a rural Canadian town, their dream is just escape. Escape from the oppressive forces that are threatening their...
Read MoreTIFF Review: Teen Spirit
At its core, Teen Spirit is a love letter to pop music, something writer/director Max Minghella (seen most recently as Nick in The...
Read MoreTIFF Review: Greta
If you’re ever nostalgic for those fun, jumpy thrillers of the early 90’s (Single White Female, I’m looking at you!),...
Read MoreTIFF Review: The Kindergarten Teacher
“In a couple of years you’ll be a shadow, just like me,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character Lisa tells her young...
Read MoreTIFF Review: Wildlife
At times during Wildlife, you have to remind yourself that this is Paul Dano’s directorial debut. An actor first, perhaps best...
Read MoreToronto International Film Festival Aims to “Share Her Journey”
On Tuesday, July 24th, in lieu of its normally scheduled press conference, cancelled due to the recent horrible events here in Toronto,...
Read MoreTIFF Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – “Brilliant”
It is really hard to blend comedy and tragedy together and do it well. Even Shakespeare had two different kinds of plays. It’s...
Read MoreTIFF Review: The Wife -“Excellent “
When I exited the premiere of The Wife, I heard, more than once, the utterance from women in the crowd, “I could relate to that...
Read MoreTIFF Review: Kings -“It feels as if too much was taken out”
Though the film Kings has been in production obviously much longer, perhaps in the wake of the recent happenings in Charlottesville its...
Read MoreTIFF Day 9 – 55 Steps, My Days of Mercy, Plonger
In the home stretch with only one day ahead, the penultimate day of the Toronto International Film Festival had three main premieres to...
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