By John Corrado On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists broke through the border between Israel and Gaza, and began indiscriminately murdering innocent civilians, including women and children, many of them executed in their homes. It was the worst mass murder of Jewish people since the Holocaust, and nearly two years later, there… Read More #TIFF50 Review: The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue (TIFF Docs)
By John Corrado The setup for Normal, the latest film from director and auteur of ultra-violence Ben Wheatley, involves a lot of “Chekov’s gun” (or, perhaps, Chekov’s explosives); that being the rule that a gun shown in the first act must go off by the third. As much as the first half of this ninety… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Normal (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The latest work from Inuk filmmaker Zacharies Kinuk, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) is a mix of Indigenous legend and storytelling. Set thousands of years in the past, the film follows Sapa (Haiden Angutimarik) and Kaujak (Theresia Kappianaq), a boy and girl who are betrothed to each other, gaining them the names “future husband”… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) (Special Presentations)
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