By John Corrado Love of Your Life is the sophomore feature from Rachel Morrison, the cinematographer turned filmmaker who made her directorial debut in 2024 with The Fire Inside. This one is an old school romantic drama, starring Margaret Qualley in a very good performance that would make her rom-com royalty mother Andie MacDowell proud.… Read More #TIFF26 Review: Love of Your Life (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado A series of Faustian bargains underpin Italian director Paolo Strippoli’s confidently directed psychological horror movie The Spiral, which is designed to provoke uncomfortable and disturbing moral questions as well as squirms. The film opens on Alice (Romana Maggiora Vergano) in Rome, being paid a visit by her estranged mother Anna (Jasmine Trinca)… Read More #TIFF26 Review: The Spiral (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado In following up her modern cult favourite The Love Witch, director Anna Biller delivers another idiosyncratic and meticulously crafted homage to a bygone era of filmmaking. The sumptuous visuals define Biller’s latest, which serves as a Technicolor tribute to Japanese ghost stories by way of Medieval England, by way of visually striking… Read More #TIFF26 Review: The Face of Horror (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado Caleb Hearon gets a starring role in director Kris Rey’s Trash Mountain, a heartfelt and funny indie dramedy that has some familiar beats but presents them in a mostly satisfying way. Hearon stars in the film as Gavin, a gay man living in Chicago, where he has found his people as the… Read More #TIFF26 Review: Trash Mountain (Centrepiece)
