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THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT Official Trailer: Timey-Wimey Thriller Coming in October
by admin|1 week ago|Screen Anarchy
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking...
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TIFF Review: Flow Suggests Classic Disney By Way of Emmanuel Lubezki
by admin|1 week ago|The Film Stage
Being a pet owner, depending on your personality, comes with a fair level of anxiety. For example: after leaving my apartment to go see the film I’m writing about, the thought crossed my mind that maybe I hadn’t shut my...
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TIFF Review: Souleymane’s Story Tells a Dardenne-Esque Political Fable with a Thriller’s Urgency
by admin|1 week ago|The Film Stage
Souleymane’s Story delivers a political fable with all the grit and urgency of a thriller. It follows a Guinean food-delivery driver (Abou Sangare, brilliant in his first screen role) who rides his bike through Paris’ busy streets with alarming haste....
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First Trailer for Greg Jardin’s Sundance Hit It’s What’s Inside
by admin|1 week ago|The Film Stage
One of the Sundance breakouts this year was Greg Jardin’s directorial debut It’s What’s Inside. Starring Brittany O’Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood, Nina Bloomgarden, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Reina Hardesty, Devon Terrell, and David Thompson, it follows a group of friends who...
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1978 Official Trailer: The Onetti Brothers Disrupt The Beautiful Game, With Hard Violence!
by admin|1 week ago|Screen Anarchy
During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people to take them to a clandestine detention center.   What...
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Amnesiascope Presents a Rarely Screened Maggie Cheung Film on Tuesday, September 17
by admin|1 week ago|The Film Stage
When I started my blindfold series Amnesiascope I knew there’d come time to show a Maggie Cheung film. Probably this doesn’t require much explanation: movie star, master thespian, action heroine, and melodrama titan, Cheung is perhaps the world’s greatest actor...
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Toronto 2024 Review: SEEDS, Fear The Angry, Kick-Ass Indigenous Woman
by admin|1 week ago|Screen Anarchy
Ziggy is Kanyen'kehà:ka, a member of the Mohawk tribe living in the big city of Toronto. Ziggy’s goal is to be an influencer, to quit her job shuttling meals around town on her bike. After work and making her videos...
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Toronto 2024 Review: RELAY, Propulsive Paranoid Tradecraft
by admin|1 week ago|Screen Anarchy
There is one line of dialogue repeated, over and over in Relay, like a mantra: “Go ahead.” It is spoken by nearly every major character as they communicate through anonymous telephone operators, to preserve each other's privacy. This aspect alone makes for a...
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TIFF Review: Alicia Vikander Steals the Show in the Sci-Fi Drama The Assessment
by admin|1 week ago|The Film Stage
The “old world” is a wasteland. People still live there, but not for very long. Those in the “new world” live hundreds of years thanks to a drug that slows aging. It’s groundbreaking technology that comes at a price: the...
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TIFF Review: Conclave is an Engaging Political Thriller Undone by Ridiculous Third Act Twists
by admin|1 week ago|The Film Stage
The twisty political thriller Conclave wastes little time getting right into it: the Pope is dead, and after a three-week time jump, the world’s most powerful cardinals gather in Vatican City, their mission to elect a new leader from among...
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