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TV Review: Black Mirror: San Junipero & Nosedive (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

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 worker (Bryce Dallas Howard) struggles with her place in a society that values social...

Review: The Edge of Seventeen (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A rebellious teen (Hailee Steinfeld) finds her life thrown into disarray after her brother (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend (Haley Lu Richardson). REVIEW: The last few years have been slim pickings for good teen coming-of-age fare on...

Review: Sing (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a koala bear/theatrical impresario, attempts to save his run-down theater by staging a singing competition featuring a Porcupine punk singer (Scarlett Johansson), a domestic pig (Reese Witherspoon) with a dozen kids, a tough-guy mouse (Seth...

Review: Lion (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Twenty-five years after being separated from his family, a young man (Dev Patel) raised by loving adoptive parents (Nicole Kidman & David Wenham) in Australia uses Google Earth to find his natural family, who he vaguely remembers living in...

We interview The Magnificent Seven’s Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt & more!

Posted 10 years ago

This Friday, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Antoine Fuqua’s big-budget remake of the 1960 Yul Brynner/Steve McQueen classic (which was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s THE SEVEN SAMURAI) hits theaters. I was lucky enough to see it at TIFF (read my...

Review: Dog Eat Dog (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: Three criminals (Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired to kidnap a gangster’s baby. REVIEW: In his introduction to DOG EAT DOG, TIFF Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes admitted that it was not a natural pick...

Review: Wakefield (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A man (Bryan Cranston) inexplicably abandons his family, moving into the family attic and spying on them from afar. REVIEW: WAKEFIELD is a movie that would never work were it not for Bryan Cranston’s performance. Literally on-screen every-second of...

Review: LBJ (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: The story of Lyndon Baines Johnson (Woody Harrelson) during the Kennedy years through to his eventual swearing-in as president following the JFK assassination, and his difficult first year in-office as he struggles to pass the Civil Rights Act. REVIEW:...

Review: Message from the King (TIFF 2016)

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A man (Chadwick Boseman) from South Africa travels to L.A to find out what happened to his estranged sister. After finding her brutally tortured corpse in the morgue, he sets out to solve her murder and take brutal revenge....

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