Month: September 2011

[TIFF Review] Lipstikka

Dealing with the tenuousness and unreliability of memory, Jonathan Sagall has crafted a sophomore feature that isn’t easy to shake. An Israeli-raised, Canad...

[TIFF Review] Chicken with Plums

While most feature animations deal with talking animals and anthropomorphized toys, it was joy when we received Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's deep...

[TIFF Video Review] Sleepless Night

The Midnight Madness sidebar at the Toronto International Film Festival is usually filled with your fair share of blood, gore and other twisted torment. Par...

[TIFF Review] Romeo Eleven

Who is Rami? Or better yet, who should Rami be? It’s the question he fears to ask himself while the people surrounding him attempt to give the answer. Shoul...

[TIFF Review] 50/50

Drawing from a dark time in his own life, first-time screenwriter Will Reiser translates the good, the bad and the goofy elements of his battle with a rare and ...

[TIFF Review] Habibi

A love letter stuck in limbo—forever undelivered, returned to sender, and lost in transit—the union between Layla and Qays can never be cemented. Caught in ...

[TIFF Review] Whores’ Glory

Concluding a trilogy that goes places even Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs could never go (not on a basic cable anyway), Michael Glawogger’s Whores' Glory is lucid,...

[TIFF Review] A Monster in Paris

After a decade in the Hollywood system directing the likes of The Road to El Dorado and Shark Tale, Bibo Bergeron decided to return home to his native Franc...