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First Trailer for Greg Jardin’s Sundance Hit It’s What’s Inside
by admin|9 months 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|9 months 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|9 months 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|9 months 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|9 months 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|9 months 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|9 months 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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‘Misericordia’ Review: Alain Guiraudie’s Thorny Exploration of Sexual Desire and Repression
by admin|9 months ago|Slant Magazine
The competing passions at play throughout Misericordia inevitably spill over into violence. The post ‘Misericordia’ Review: Alain Guiraudie’s Thorny Exploration of Sexual Desire and Repression appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Nightbitch | 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|9 months ago|Ioncinema
All About My Mother: Amy Adams Goes to the Dogs In Marielle Heller’s Barking Mad Dramedy “Motherhood is fucking brutal,” Amy Adams’ unnamed Mother seethes in Nightbitch. Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yodel’s novel is a fiery challenge of society’s...
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TATA
by admin|9 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5-15 and HtN has you covered once again. Check out Chris Reed’s Tata movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Abusive parenting cuts deep, leaving serious wounds that may never heal....
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