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TIFF 2024 Review: Sweet Angel Baby – “the overriding message is still triumphant.”

TIFF 2024 Review: Sweet Angel Baby – “the overriding message is still triumphant.”

Posted by on Sep 30, 2024 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

When you’re a little bit ‘different’ from the rest, you might be apt to hide parts of yourself.  This is even more true if you live in a...

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TIFF 2024 Review: Addition – “What starts out as a more typical rom-com does become more serious in the second half”

TIFF 2024 Review: Addition – “What starts out as a more typical rom-com does become more serious in the second half”

Posted by on Sep 20, 2024 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

To Grace Lisa Vandenburg (Teresa Palmer), everything is seen in numbers.  There are nineteen letters in her name, for instance.  The...

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TIFF 2024 Review: The Assessment – “Fortuné directs with assuredness and a clear vision.”

TIFF 2024 Review: The Assessment – “Fortuné directs with assuredness and a clear vision.”

Posted by on Sep 17, 2024 in All, Film, Headline, Reviews, sci-fi | 0 comments

In a futuristic world, a voice reports atmospheric pressure and radioactivity statistics under ‘the dome.’  It’s a...

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TIFF 2024 Review: The Fire Inside – “takes the typical formula of an underdog sports story and turns it on its head.”

TIFF 2024 Review: The Fire Inside – “takes the typical formula of an underdog sports story and turns it on its head.”

Posted by on Sep 16, 2024 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, sport | 0 comments

In 2016, boxer Claressa Shields became the first, and only, American boxer to win back-to-back gold medals at the Olympic Games.  She went...

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TIFF 2024 Review: Babygirl – “an entirely different level of honesty”

TIFF 2024 Review: Babygirl – “an entirely different level of honesty”

Posted by on Sep 16, 2024 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

There’s been a run of movies lately depicting younger men with women older than them, and I’m all for it considering for years...

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TIFF 2024 Review: The Deb – “a solid debut and full of catchy tunes”

TIFF 2024 Review: The Deb – “a solid debut and full of catchy tunes”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2024 in All, comedy, Film, Headline, musical, Reviews | 0 comments

Musicals can be a hard market to crack.  Those who love them (like me) are truly excited when something new comes to the big screen.  But,...

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TIFF 2024 Review: The Last Showgirl – “For Pamela Anderson, this is a role she has been waiting to play.”

TIFF 2024 Review: The Last Showgirl – “For Pamela Anderson, this is a role she has been waiting to play.”

Posted by on Sep 13, 2024 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

“I’m 42, but this house is huge and distance helps,” says Shelley (Pamela Anderson) as she auditions for a new dancing...

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TIFF 2024 Review: Paying For It – “At times exceedingly awkward and at times tender.”

TIFF 2024 Review: Paying For It – “At times exceedingly awkward and at times tender.”

Posted by on Sep 13, 2024 in All, comedy, Comics, drama, Film, Headline, indie, Reviews | 0 comments

At the beginning of Sook-Yin Lee’s newest film Paying For It, Sonny (Emily Lê), who is laying in bed next to her partner, Chester (Dan...

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TIFF 2024 Review: Nightbitch – “we all need to feel the freedom to run free”

TIFF 2024 Review: Nightbitch – “we all need to feel the freedom to run free”

Posted by on Sep 12, 2024 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

“What fresh hell awaits you today?” Amy Adams’ character (known simply as Mother) asks herself in the mirror. And...

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TIFF 2024 Review: Do I Know You From Somewhere? – “a gem of a film.”

TIFF 2024 Review: Do I Know You From Somewhere? – “a gem of a film.”

Posted by on Sep 8, 2024 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

A day one screening for me at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and of the four films I watched that day this was my...

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