TIFF

Review: Guns Akimbo (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Miles (Daniel Radcliffe), a nerdy videogame designer, gets his kicks trolling the fans of “Skizm”, an illegal death-match club live-streamed online. After antagonizing the wrong troll, he wakes up to find two pistols have been surgically fused to his...

Review: The Laundromat (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A woman’s (Meryl Streep) investigation into insurance fraud leads her to a never-ending series of shell companies set up by two Panama City law partners (Gary Oldman & Antonio Banderas). REVIEW: THE LAUNDROMAT is director Steven Soderbergh’s long-awaited Panama...

Review: Color Out of Space (TIFF 2019)

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: 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...

Knives Out (TIFF 2019 Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: The mysterious death of a superstar author (Christopher Plummer) attracts the attention of a world-famous detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who gathers the victim’s greedy relatives and his nurse for an investigation into what happened. REVIEW: It’s unlikely anything...

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...

Load more articles