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Review: Brad’s Status (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: By all accounts, Brad (Ben Stiller) is a successful guy. He lives a comfortably middle class existence with a wife (Jenna Fischer) who loves him, and a smart son (Austin Abrams) with a bright future ahead of him. But,...

Review: Breathe (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A handsome, adventurous, world-traveling English tea broker, Jonathan Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) is felled by polio, leaving him unable to move anything below his neck or even breathe unaided by a respirator. Initially resigned to his fate, the love of...

Review: mother!

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) restoring her older husband’s (Javier Bardem) decaying home, finds their idyll interrupted by two abrasive house guests (Ed Harris & Michelle Pfeiffer). REVIEW: As far as big studio movies go this year, few are...

We interview Vince Vaughn & Don Johnson for Brawl in Cell Block 99

Posted 9 years ago

At TIFF, one of the movies I was most keen to see was BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (review HERE), for many reasons, one of which was that I loved director S. Craig Zahler’s last film, BONE TOMAHAWK, but also...

Review: Downsizing (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A suburban man (Matt Damon) voluntarily undergoes miniaturization in order to join a small-person’s community where his middle class savings will make him wealthy. REVIEW: Alexander Payne’s DOWNSIZING is nothing if not ambitious – perhaps too much so. It’s...

The Shape of Water (TIFF Review)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) working the graveyard shift at a top secret government installation in the cold war era, befriends an imprisoned sea creature (Doug Jones) being experimented upon by an overzealous agent (Michael Shannon) and a...

Review: Battle of the Sexes (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Tennis champ Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) who, in 1973, accepted a challenge by Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) to play an exhibition game that he marketed as an epic battle of the sexes. REVIEW: Despite...

Review: Molly’s Game (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Jessica Chastain) working for a Hollywood mogul, spins a private poker game for high-stakes players into a multi-million dollar business, putting her in the cross-hairs of the authorities and the mob. REVIEW: MOLLY’S GAME tells the...

Review: The Shape of Water (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

Review: Mom and Dad (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: An inexplicable phenomena results in parents being uncontrollably compelled to murder their children. REVIEW: MOM AND DAD marks the solo directorial debut of Brian Taylor, one half of the famous Neveldine/Taylor directorial duo, which brought us such crazed classics...

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