Month: September 2016

[TIFF Review] Barry

During his college days in New York, Barack Obama used to be called “Barry.” At that point in time he hadn’t fully embraced his African American roots yet, but ...

[TIFF Review] Carrie Pilby

The synopsis for Carrie Pilby can sound atrocious on paper. Most films utilizing an eighteen-year old Harvard graduate do so as periphery color because the trop...

[TIFF Review] Blue Jay

Sometimes you just can’t escape the past. Moments that have shaped you and made you who you are today can happen at any time without you even knowing it. They c...

[TIFF Review] LBJ

There's been no shortage of Lyndon B. Johnson depictions on film as of late, with Ava DuVernay capturing the 36th U.S. president as an arrogant man trying to di...

[TIFF Review] The Giant

In The Giant, what lives and breathes as a compelling documentary morphs quickly into a kind of mythological fantasy when it steps outside its mode of social re...

[Review] Mr. Church

If you didn't know what you were getting into upon sitting down for Bruce Beresford's Mr. Church, you will following this onscreen text: "Inspired by a True Fri...