The Top 12 Major Happenings At TIFF 2019
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Western Stars’ and ‘The Aeronauts’ Review
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Lucy In The Sky’ and ‘The Report’ Reviews
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Motherless Brooklyn’, ‘The Laundromat’ and ‘Uncut Gems’ Reviews
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Harriet’ Review
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood’ Review
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. […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’ Review
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : Taika Waititi’s ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Review
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Judy’ and ‘Hustlers’ Review
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : James Mangold’s ‘Ford vs Ferrari’ Review
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. […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : Todd Phillips’s ‘Joker’ Review
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 Sky Is Pink (2019) – Official Trailer
The Sky Is Pink | Official Trailer | Shonali Bose | Farhan Akhtar | Priyanka Chopra Jonas | Zaira Wasim | Rohit Saraf | RSVP | Nilesh Maniyar | Juhi […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Just Mercy’ and ‘Red Penguins’ Reviews
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Day – 1 : ‘Hidden Life’ and ‘The Lighthouse’ Reviews
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 […]
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