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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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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...

Review: Deepwater Horizon

Posted 10 years ago

This title was previously reviewed at TIFF 2016. PLOT: The true story of the Deepwater Horizon, the mobile drilling unit that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the BP Oil Spill. REVIEW: While the BP Oil Spill may not...

TIFF Wrap-up and Top 10!

Posted 10 years ago

I can’t believe it but TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) is already over for another year! This marked my eighth time attending what I think is the world’s best film festival, and the lineup was impressive as ever. Acquisitions were...

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