Tag: Female Director

#TIFF26 Review: Everest: The Other Side (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado Everest: The Other Side is the latest thrill-seeking documentary from filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the team behind the Oscar-winning mountain climbing film Free Solo. Their latest is a surprisingly harrowing portrait of mountaineer Jim Morrison’s unstoppable journey to ski down the North Face of Mount Everest. While many have… Read More #TIFF26 Review: Everest: The Other Side (Special Presentations)

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#TIFF26 Review: Love of Your Life (Special Presentations)

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)

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#TIFF26 Review: The Face of Horror (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)

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#TIFF26 Review: Tangles (Centrepiece)

By John Corrado In her debut feature Tangles, director Leah Nelson crafts an incredibly moving animated film that poignantly handles the devastating experience of Alzheimer’s and how it impacts a whole family. The film is an adaptation of author and illustrator Sarah Leavitt’s autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. At the start of the… Read More #TIFF26 Review: Tangles (Centrepiece)

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#TIFF26 Review: Still Night, Burning House (TIFF Docs)

By John Corrado In her debut feature Still Night, Burning House, Vietnamese-Canadian filmmaker Carol Nguyen looks inward, focusing on her own family’s history with grief and mental health. The film seeks to tell the story of her Uncle Thach, who was schizophrenic and died from suicide a decade ago, after jumping out a second story… Read More #TIFF26 Review: Still Night, Burning House (TIFF Docs)

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#TIFF26 Review: Being Heumann (Gala Presentations)

By John Corrado In Being Heumann, the follow up to her Oscar-winning CODA, director Siân Heder dramatizes the true story of Judith Heumann, the prominent disability rights activist who helped break down barriers for accessibility. The result is a film that works as a rousing, inspiring crowdpleaser about the disability rights movement in the 1970s,… Read More #TIFF26 Review: Being Heumann (Gala Presentations)

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Blu-ray Review: You, Me & Tuscany

By John Corrado If modern filmmakers like Ari Aster and Jordan Peele helped define a subgenre known as “elevated horror,” director Kat Coiro’s Italy-set romantic comedy You, Me & Tuscany pioneers something that could be described as “elevated Hallmark.” This rom-com plays like something that could air on the Hallmark Channel, but with recognizable stars… Read More Blu-ray Review: You, Me & Tuscany

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4K Ultra HD Review: The Bride!

By John Corrado Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, the actress-turned-filmmaker’s followup to her Oscar-nominated directorial debut The Lost Daughter, is an ambitious genre mashup of horror movie, detective picture, musical, and feminist revisionism. Setting her film in the 1930s, Gyllenhaal uses Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a blueprint for an entirely new reimagining of the story, crafting… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Bride!

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