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TIFF Review: Firecrackers

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

For two girls living in a rural Canadian town, their dream is just escape.  Escape from the oppressive forces that are threatening their...

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TIFF Review: Teen Spirit

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

At its core, Teen Spirit is a love letter to pop music, something writer/director Max Minghella (seen most recently as Nick in The...

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TIFF Review: Greta

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

If you’re ever nostalgic for those fun, jumpy thrillers of the early 90’s (Single White Female, I’m looking at you!),...

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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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Toronto International Film Festival Aims to “Share Her Journey”

Posted by on Jul 25, 2018 in All, Film, Headline, News | 0 comments

On Tuesday, July 24th, in lieu of its normally scheduled press conference, cancelled due to the recent horrible events here in Toronto,...

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TIFF Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – “Brilliant”

Posted by on Sep 18, 2017 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

It is really hard to blend comedy and tragedy together and do it well.  Even Shakespeare had two different kinds of plays.  It’s...

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TIFF Review: The Wife -“Excellent “

Posted by on Sep 18, 2017 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

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...

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TIFF Review: Kings -“It feels as if too much was taken out”

Posted by on Sep 18, 2017 in All, drama, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

Though the film Kings has been in production obviously much longer, perhaps in the wake of the recent happenings in Charlottesville its...

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TIFF Day 9 – 55 Steps, My Days of Mercy, Plonger

Posted by on Sep 16, 2017 in All, Film, Headline, News | 0 comments

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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