By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In her latest film The Last Showgirl, director Gia Coppola (granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola) gives a starring role to model and actress Pamela Anderson, fittingly casting her as an… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Last Showgirl (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The feature debut of Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas, who serve as co-writers and co-directors, Aberdeen is a mix of slice-of-life portrait and more serious melodrama. The film is named… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Aberdeen (Discovery)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The Life of Chuck finds director Mike Flanagan crafting another Stephen King adaptation, following his The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep. Whatever you are expecting from Flanagan, best known for his… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Life of Chuck (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In his narrative feature debut Shook, Canadian documentary filmmaker Amar Wala (The Secret Trial 5) crafts a character dramedy that is set in Scarborough. While the Toronto suburb has historically… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Shook (Discovery)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Director Tallulah H. Schwab’s sophomore feature Mr. K is an absurdist tale set inside an old hotel that draws from obvious cinematic sources like The Shining, Barton Fink and Holy… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Mr. K (Platform)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The latest film from Irish director John Crowley (Brooklyn), We Live in Time mostly works as a genuine romantic tear-jerker, centred around a young couple in London. Tobias (Andrew Garfield)… Read More #TIFF24 Review: We Live in Time (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In her latest film Paying For It, Toronto filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee crafts a tender adaptation of her former partner Chester Brown’s autobiographical 2011 graphic novel of the same name,… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Paying for It (Platform)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Do I Know You From Somewhere?, the debut feature from New Brunswick filmmaker Arianna Martinez, aims to capture that slippery, elusive feeling that you are pulling away from someone. And… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Do I Know You From Somewhere? (Discovery)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Seeds is an Indigenous B-movie thriller that serves as the feature directorial debut of actress Kaniehtiio Horn, who also wrote and stars in the film. Horn plays Ziggy, an Indigenous woman… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Seeds (Discovery)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of September 6th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Wide Release): This long-awaited legacy sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 fan favourite Beetlejuice finds Michael Keaton reprising his role as “the ghost with the most.” Winona Ryder also reprises her role from the original, with Jenna Ortega joining the… Read More New This Week (09/06/2024): Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, & More!
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Nutcrackers, the opening night film of this year’s TIFF, finds director David Gordon Green sort of returning to his more indie movie roots, following his forays into horror franchise filmmaking… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Nutcrackers (Gala Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. After breaking out with his iPhone-shot Tangerine, Sean Baker has become one of our best modern filmmakers, gifting us exceptional, singular works like The Florida Project and Red Rocket. Now Baker returns with Anora, which… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Anora (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In her showbiz sendup The Substance, writer-director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) crafts her own bloody take on The Picture of Dorian Gray, mixing extreme body horror and absurd satire of… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Substance (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 30th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Reagan (Wide Release): Dennis Quaid stars in this new biopic of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. Director Sean McNamara’s film mainly concerns (and is at its best when focusing on) Reagan’s steadfast fight against communism, to win… Read More New This Week (08/30/2024): Reagan, & More!
By John Corrado ”Peace through strength.” That was the famous adage of President Ronald Reagan when it came to his foreign policy approach, and taking on the “evil empire” of the Soviet Union during the final stages of the Cold War. This motto also provides the backbone for director Sean McNamara’s Reagan, a new biopic that… Read More Movie Review: Reagan
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 23rd, 2024. Theatrical Releases: The Crow (Wide Release): This remake of the 1994 supernatural thriller with the late Brandon Lee (who infamously died in a tragic on-set accident), stars Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs. I didn’t attend the screening so can’t offer a review, but… Read More New This Week (08/23/2024): The Crow, Between the Temples, & More!
By John Corrado Between the Temples, the latest work from director and co-writer Nathan Silver, is a sort of indie screwball comedy that reinvents that old trope of finding yourself through an unconventional relationship. The two figures at the centre of it are Ben Gottlieb (Jason Schwarzman), a cantor at his synagogue who has found… Read More Movie Review: Between the Temples
By John Corrado Netflix has released the first trailer for The Piano Lesson, one of their big awards contenders that will be screening at TIFF next month. The film is produced by Denzel Washington, and is the latest in his series of film adaptations of August Wilson plays, following the Oscar-winning films Ma Rainey’s Black… Read More Trailer Released for Netflix’s The Piano Lesson
By John Corrado Update: The trailer has now been pulled by Lionsgate, due to the critic quotes at the beginning having been fabricated. It’s unfortunate that the studio passed this through without a fact check. More info on the whole situation can be found on Variety here. The new, full-length trailer has just been released… Read More New Trailer Released for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 16th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Alien: Romulus (Wide Release): The biggest of this week’s many new releases is Alien: Romulus, director Fede Alvarez’s new addition to the Alien franchise. As I wrote in my review, the film “works because it is trying to be an old… Read More New This Week (08/16/2024): Alien: Romulus, Good One, Close to You, & More!
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