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Louis C.K. directed a movie in secret & it will debut at TIFF this year

Posted 9 years ago

With almost every film subject to high levels of exposure before the cameras start rolling all the way up to their release, it seems impossible to make a whole movie and keep it a secret from the world. Turns out...

Review: The Promise

Posted 9 years ago

THE PROMISE was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage.  PLOT: In the final days of the Ottoman Empire, an Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac) falls in-love with a French-educated Armenian woman (Charlotte Le Bon) who’s the mistress...

Review: Free Fire

Posted 9 years ago

FREE FIRE was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: A mob/IRA arms deal in a remote warehouse goes horribly awry when a beef between two thug foot soldiers erupts into an epic, no-holds-barred gunfight. REVIEW: For...

Review: Their Finest

Posted 9 years ago

This was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage.  PLOT: During the London Blitz, a young woman (Gemma Arterton) takes a job as a script writer for women’s dialogue in morale-boosting films. When an idea of hers gets...

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Movie Review)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Small-town father-and-son coroners (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch) perform an emergency, late-night autopsy on the corpse of a young woman whose biology makes no sense. REVIEW: Of all the films I’ve seen at TIFF this year (nearly twenty as...

Arrival (Movie Review)

Posted 10 years ago

This review was originally run as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: After mysterious alien ships appear around the globe, a linguist (Amy Adams) is recruited by an army colonel (Forest Whitaker) in order to help communicate with the...

Review: Elle

Posted 10 years ago

This was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: A middle-aged divorcee (Isabelle Huppert) is sexually assaulted, and struggles with conflicting feelings regarding the rape while trying to move on with her life. REVIEW: Apparently, Paul Verhoeven’s...

Review: Loving

Posted 10 years ago

LOVING was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: The true story of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred (Ruth Negga) Loving, who fought for over a decade to have their marriage deemed legal in opposition to Virginia’s...

TV Review: Black Mirror: San Junipero & Nosedive

Posted 10 years ago

This Black Mirror review was previously run as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: In this sampling of episodes from the third season of ‘Black Mirror’, a young woman (Mackenzie Davis) makes an unexpected connection, while an insecure office...

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