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Toronto 2025 Review: DIYA, Builds an Emotionally Charged Thriller Out of an Ancient Cultural Issue
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Wherever you are on this planet, one split second can change your life. This may be instantly, or the first domino in a slow, irreversible crash out of all the best made plans. For Dane Francis, an NGO driver on...
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‘Swiped’ Review: A Questionably Hagiographic Portrait of a Tech Entrepreneur
by admin|10 months ago|Slant Magazine
This biopic about Whitney Wolfe Herd can’t escape the shadow of The Social Network. The post ‘Swiped’ Review: A Questionably Hagiographic Portrait of a Tech Entrepreneur appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet” Wins the TIFF People’s Choice Award
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
From the official press release from the Toronto International Film Festival, with links to our coverage of the winning films, when available. PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS PRESENTED BY ROGERS The 48th edition of TIFF’s People’s Choice Awards, presented by Rogers, presents...
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TIFF 2025: Erupcja, Junk World, The Napa Boys
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
The titles that usually break out of TIFF’s Midnight Madness program are often characterized by audacious, crowd-pleasing spectacle (consider the uproarious acclaim for “The Furious”). I’ve always been drawn to the more unconventional midnighters; those stories that may not boast...
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TIFF 2025: Blue Heron, Amoeba, Meadowlarks
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three dramas from TIFF, including one of the best films of the year.
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TIFF 2025: Scarlet, Arco, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
by admin|10 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three animated features from this year's fest.
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Toronto 2025 Review: HONEY BUNCH: Loving the Pieces and the Whole
by admin|10 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli return with a 70s-intimate-sci-fi horror sophomore feature. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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TIFF Review: Barrio Triste is One of the Year’s Great Debuts
by admin|10 months ago|The Film Stage
At barely two years old, Harmony Korine’s “post-cinema” company EDGLRD is already branching out. After directing AGGRO DR1FT and Baby Invasion, Korine takes on a producer role for Barrio Triste, the feature debut of Colombian-American artist Stillz. It’s a good...
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TIFF Review: Easy’s Waltz Finds Nic Pizzolatto Offering an Odd, Creaky New Hollywood Counterfeit
by admin|10 months ago|The Film Stage
My friend (and Film Stage Managing Editor) Nick Newman likes the term “counterfeit money” to describe certain movies. Be it The Batman or Ben Affleck’s oeuvre, it’s an apt descriptor for a number of titles play-acting as real-deal adult filmmaking...
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Paul Thomas Anderson on Getting Thomas Pynchon’s Blessing to Radically Adapt Vineland: “I Stole the Parts That Really Resonated with Me”
by admin|10 months ago|The Film Stage
After finally unveiling One Battle After Another last week with a Steven Spielberg-anointed screening and conversation, the early praise for Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece of a comedy-action epic has been rightfully rapturous. While the story of revolutionaries is inspired by...
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