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 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 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 The first trailer has been released for the upcoming A24 movie We Live in Time. The romantic drama from director John Crowley (Brooklyn) stars Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, and is described as a “decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.” It was just announced yesterday that the film will have it’s world premiere at… Read More Trailer Released for We Live in Time
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