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I, The Executioner Review - South Korean Cop Movie is a Total Blast #TIFF2024
Presence Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Ghost Story is an Un-scary Good Time #TIFF2024
The Wild Robot Review - DreamWorks Builds an Effective and Emotional Family Film #TIFF2024
POV: You Are Watching The #TIFF2024 Pre-Show
K-POPs Review - School of Paak: Anderson Paak's Directorial Debut is an Uneven but Likeable Family Comedy #TIFF2024
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Sebby DSeptember 27, 2024Carnival is Over Mini-Review #TIFF2024
CW: this review contains discussion of sexual violence Carnival is Over certainly starts strong. Regina (Leandra Leal) and Valério (Pêpê Rapazote) are a couple unhappy with their social standing. Valério lives in the…
0Sebby DSeptember 26, 2024The Piano Lesson Mini-Review #TIFF2024
In 2015, Denzel Washington announced that he’d be producing film adaptations of 10 plays by the legendary playwright August Wilson. The first was 2016’s Fences, directed by and starring Washington. The film was a…
0Sebby DSeptember 26, 2024Daniela Forever Mini-Review #TIFF2024
Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo was last at TIFF in 2016, with a monster movie called Colossal. Colossal’s story was unique and memorable. It used giant Kaiju monsters as metaphors in a small-scale story of a woman…
0Sebby DSeptember 25, 2024Space Cowboy Mini-Review #TIFF2024
Half-way through Space Cowboy, I heard the sound of snores coming from behind me. I turned around, and sure enough, an audience member had fallen asleep. For a film with this subject matter, this is an unforgivable…
0Sebby DSeptember 25, 2024Vice is Broke Mini Review #TIFF2024
“This is not a hit piece.” Eddie Huang assures a former friend near the end of Vice is Broke. Uhhhhhh….. I was unfamiliar with Huang before seeing the film, but Vice is Broke is a good introduction. Huang was a…
3Sebby DSeptember 24, 2024Luckiest Man in America Mini-Review #TIFF2024
Before my TIFF screening of The Luckiest Man in America, there was a video message. Paul Walter Hauser, star of the film, had recorded a greeting for the premiere of the film. Much of the cast was in attendance, but…
0Sebby DSeptember 24, 2024Bird Mini-Review #TIFF2024
Hmmm. Bird is the first of Andrea Arnold’s films that I’ve seen, and I’m not sure it was the best introduction. As a 12 year-old first getting into film, I was dimly aware that Arnold’s 2009 film Fish Tank was receiving…
0Sebby DSeptember 24, 2024Rap World Mini-Review #TIFF2024
Sometimes I think to myself: who are the funniest people in the world? Or at least, who will we look back on as the defining comedians of our era? The names Eric Andre, Nathan Fielder, & Patti Harrison come to mind…
0Sebby DSeptember 23, 2024Local Legends Mini-Review #TIFF2024
Ok this one requires some context. In fact, this review will be mostly context. To talk about Local Legends, I first have to talk about Will Sloan. Sloan is a writer from Toronto, and is one of only three people who’s…
0Sebby DSeptember 23, 2024Inside the #TIFF2024 Lightbox
As my (overdue) TIFF coverage comes to an end, I wanted to take all of you loyal readers on a tour through TIFF's flagship theater, the Lightbox. This monument to cinephilia operates year-round on the corner of King and…
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