Month: September 2016

[TIFF Review] Weirdos

Weirdos, the latest film from the quintessentially Canadian auteur Bruce McDonald, is on its face just another road trip comedy with the spirit of Andy Warhol, ...

[TIFF Review] Ta’ang

A text against a black screen informs us of the Ta’ang ethnicity belonging to Myanmar, a nation engulfed in an endless civil war, which happens to be driving it...

[TIFF Review] Colossal

Whether the existence of time travel or an alien invasion, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo has proven king at dealing with large-scale concepts affecting small-...

[TIFF Review] Wakefield

Bryan Cranston’s Howard Wakefield seems to have a great life. He is a successful New York City lawyer, is married to a loving wife, has two teenage girls, and o...

[TIFF Review] Paris Can Wait

With her last feature directorial credit being contributions to 1991's Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, Eleanor Coppola is perhaps better known as ...

[TIFF Review] Denial

There's often a genuine dramatic pull to films in the courtroom drama genre, yet they've suffered the last few decades because of the conventional tropes that c...

[TIFF Review] The Edge of Seventeen

Festival films about teenage angst are a dime a dozen, or maybe a nickel at this point. The genre is as constrained by its expected tropes as horror or superher...

[TIFF Review] Bleed for This

There's something about boxing movies that gets butts in seats regardless of so many being practically the same story. The formula almost always concerns some t...