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Review: The Forger

This review was originally featured in our TIFF 2014 coverage PLOT: An imprisoned art forger (John Travolta)makes a deal with a crime boss for a big job in order to get early parole so he can spend time with his...

Review: Beyond The Reach

PLOT: A young guide (Jeremy Irvine) finds himself stalked in the Mohave desert by a rich hunter (Michael Douglas) after the two are involved in an accidental shooting. REVIEW: THE REACH could – and should – have been a great...
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Review: While We’re Young

    This title was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: A middle-aged documentarian (Ben Stiller) and his producer wife (Naomi Watts) make friends with a young couple (Adam Driver & Amanda Seyfried) although the generation...

Blood and money reign in The Riot Club trailer

If you're not familiar with writer/directer Lone Scherfig (AN EDUCATION), it looks like this next film might be a solid entry point. THE RIOT CLUB focuses on a couple of Oxford students who are invited to join an infamous secret...
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Review: ’71

This review originally ran as part of JoBlo.com’s TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: A young British soldier (Jack O’Connell) finds himself separated from his unit and trapped behind enemy lines in 1971 Belfast at the height of “The Troubles”. REVIEW: Lightening...

Review: The Last Five Years

THE LAST FIVE YEARS was originally reviewed as part of out TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: A young actress (Anna Kendrick) and her novelist husband (Jeremy Jordan) try to make sense of their five year relationship. REVIEW: There are some movies...

Review: Black or White

This review originally ran with our 2014 TIFF coverage PLOT: After his wife dies, a grandfather (Kevin Costner) has to fight for custody of his biracial granddaughter against the girl’s father and grandmother (Octavia Spencer). REVIEW: There was a moment...

Review: Wild

This review originally ran as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: A young woman (Reese Witherspoon) hits the Pacific Crest Trail after suffering through a messy divorce and the death of her mother (Laura Dern). REVIEW: After a rough...
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Review: Rosewater

ROSEWATER was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: The true story of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahri (Gael Garcia Bernal) who, while covering the 2009 presidential election in Iran, was imprisoned for five months, with the government...
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Review: Nightcrawler

This review originally ran as part of our TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: A young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) who ekes out a living as a petty thief, stumbles upon the cutthroat, dangerous, lucrative world of crime-scene videography for the evening news....
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