
TIFF 2020 Exclusive: ‘Good Joe Bell’ and ‘I am Greta’ Review
Our correspondent John H Foote writes the review from the ground zero of #TIFF2020 GOOD JOE BELL Based on the true stories of Jaden Bell and his father Joe, portrayed […]
Our correspondent John H Foote writes the review from the ground zero of #TIFF2020 GOOD JOE BELL Based on the true stories of Jaden Bell and his father Joe, portrayed […]
Our correspondent John H Foote writes the review from the ground zero of #TIFF2020 Three Time Academy Award-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen, both acts and directs in this strong film, his […]
Our correspondent John H Foote writes the review from the ground zero of #TIFF2020 There is a striking familiarity between this film and Sean Penn’s magnificent ‘Into the Wild’ (2007), […]
Our correspondent John H Foote writes the review from the ground zero of #TIFF2020 I apologize in advance for the use of a single word in this review, I detest […]
John H Foote will be representing The Cinemawala at the Toronto International Film Festival aka TIFF 2020. Here’s his pick of movies to watch from the festival, which goes virtual […]
Watching Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) trudge up that long concrete set of stairs on his way home each day, we can feel the burden he carries. Like a stone metaphor […]
For better or worse here are the twelve major happenings on screens at TIFF 2019 this year. The first festival without Piers Handling at the helm, Cameron Bailey has assumed […]
WESTERN STARS Bruce Springsteen is without peer as the greatest rock and roll poet in music history. His blue-collar background has brought out some of the most intensely personal songs […]
LUCY IN THE SKY Though Natalie Portman is brilliant in this odd film, do not let it fool you. It might pretend to be about something hugely important, but in […]
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN Before this film is released later in the year I suspect it will go through a bit of pruning in the editing room. Overlong, with a couple of […]
I wanted to love this film because I so admire the woman it is about. Harriet Tubman was a real-life hero, a force of nature who escaped slavery in Maryland […]
Through the nineties, Tom Hanks won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor and was nominated for another. In 2000, he was nominated again and frankly should have won, again. […]
Divorce is ugly and brings out the very worst in people. You wake up one day and realize you can no longer live with this person you once thought you […]
Finding a genre where this wildly original, bold and daring film fits is an impossibility. While it is without question a black comedy, pulling elements of Mel Brooks, the Marx […]