tiff 2019

Review: Uncut Gems (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is a slippery, unscrupulous jeweler with an out-of-control gambling addiction, who pins his hopes in an Ethiopian opal that he hopes will get him out of the hole is dug himself into – if he...

Review: Joker (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

Read Paul Shirey's take HERE! PLOT: Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely, often bullied man living in squalor with this mother (Frances Conroy) in Gotham City. As the city’s gulf between the haves and have nots widens, Fleck’s fragile...

Review: Marriage Story (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A stage director (Adam Driver) and his actress wife (Scarlett Johansson) struggle to get through an increasingly hostile divorce. REVIEW: They say write what you know, and certainly writer-director Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY seems to come from an intensely...

Color Out of Space (TIFF 2019 Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A meteorite tumbles to earth bringing with it both psychological and physical changes to people living in the community it contaminates. REVIEW: Richard Stanley is something of a folk hero in the genre community. Following a smashing breakthrough with...

Review: Jojo Rabbit (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: During the final days of World War 2, a young German boy, Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), who’s a fanatical devotee of the Third Reich, to the extent that his imaginary best friend is Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), finds his...

Review: The Goldfinch (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Thirteen year old Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley), loses his mother in a terrorist bombing. After the attack, he winds up in the possession of a priceless painting, The Goldfinch, which becomes his constant companion as he becomes an adult (Ansel...

Review: A Hidden Life (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An Austrian conscientious objector (August Diehl) is imprisoned in Nazi Germany, while his wife (Valerie Pachner) tries to go on with life without him. REVIEW: It goes without saying the Terrence Malick movies aren’t for everyone. Slow-paced and evocative,...

Parasite (TIFF 2019 Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A family of con artists worms their way into the good graces of a wealthy family. REVIEW: Bong Joon-ho is one of the most original, vibrant voices to emerge from South Korea’s film industry, ever since the creative explosion...

Review: Waves (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A family is torn apart by a senseless act that has dire consequences for all involved. REVIEW: Every film festival, there’s one movie that just gets all up in your guts and won’t let go. I remember once it...