TIFF 2021 Review: Ali & Ava – “Satisfyingly sweet while never becoming overly sentimental”
Films about the working class, while increasing in number, are still not the norm, and romance films even less so. It’s therefore...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: Silent Night “Make no mistake, it is bleak, but it’s also funny”
Prior to the start of Camille Griffin’s Silent Night, the writer-directors feature debut, she had this to say: “I believe as...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: The Mad Women’s Ball – “Haunting and beautiful”
In 1885, Victor Hugo died. He was revered in France, and around the world for that matter, for his work. He was also a man who...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye – “Chastain’s sincerity is palpable”
When one thinks of the late Tammy Faye Bakker now (she passed in 2007), she is often thought of with that overzealous eye makeup, big...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: Spencer – “Kristen Stewart is absolutely transcendent as Diana”
Several films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival explore the oppression of women. It may come in the form of a...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: The Humans – “one of the more complex dramas of the festival”
In every festival comes a film you didn’t see coming, and for me during this Toronto International Film Festival, this is, so far,...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: Jagged – “A fun trip down memory lane”
I can still remember the first time I heard, and saw, the music video for Alanis Morissette’s smash hit “You Oughta...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: The Rescue – “It’s about our collective humanity, and what can happen when we all work together”
In 2018, the documentary Free Solo made me sweat as no other movie had before. I am deathly scared of heights, so it played to my every...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: Murina – “A confident and stunning debut”
Every morning Julija (Gracija Filipovic) goes spearfishing with her father. Their target during the dives is the murina, the moray eel, a...
Read MoreTIFF 2021 Review: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain – “The film never lives up to the brilliant first half it creates”
Prior to viewing The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, I was unfamiliar with this British artist. It turns out he was an inventor,...
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