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 […]
By Sunday in previous years most of the big Hollywood films have screened, but this year it seems an effort was made to keep them screening through the second half […]
Angry at being rebuffed to buy the Ferrari company, Henry Ford (Tracey Letts) hires a team to build a better, faster car that will soundly defeat the Italian car giant. […]
Owing much to the darkness of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’ (1976) and ‘The King of Comedy’ (1983), Todd Phillips has crafted a dread filed, the hypnotic nightmare of a film […]
The worst sound in the world is someone with a cold sniffing so hard you just know by the sound whatever horrors in their nostrils are now running down their […]
The day began at eight am, grabbing a coffee and scone at a nearby Second Cup I made my way to the cinema in the massive Scotiabank Theatre. The home […]
Since 1994 I have attended the annual film festival in Toronto called TIFF. It began in the late seventies as the brainchild of William Marshall as The Festival Of Festivals, […]
300 Films, 11 Days, Only a few winners. But remember, the race to the Oscars begins here only. Without much further ado, here are the winners at the TIFF 2018 […]
Our guest writer/correspondence John H Foote wraps it up from TIFF18 By day eight the normally jam-packed concourse area of the huge Scotiabank Cinemas looks empty, only a few […]