Month: September 2016

[TIFF Review] The Promise

Terry George's The Promise begins with a title card that appears on-screen stating that 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Turkish government during World...

[TIFF Review] Without Name

For someone afraid of loneliness, Eric (Alan McKenna) sure loves putting himself in positions that can't help isolating him from the world. A land surveyor who ...

[TIFF Review] Past Life

It's 1977 and you're the lead soprano in your first international concert. Rapturous applause and a flawless performance later you find yourself hobnobbing with...

[TIFF Review] Interchange

Something's happening in Kuala Lampur—something that cannot be explained. Deaths in the vein of Bryan Fuller's gorgeously ornate displays of murder from "Hannib...

[TIFF Review] The Belko Experiment

With the overwhelming presence of ideology on contemporary film criticism (this writer will admit that the majority of his festival coverage last year likely me...

[TIFF Review] Headshot

The Raid star Iko Uwais deserves to silat his way through a million hapless evil men, but here’s hoping that, going forward, he picks better cinematic vehicles ...

[TIFF Review] The Assignment

In his heyday, Walter Hill made films of a thirty-year-or-so dissonance, everything he made in the '80s owing itself to the '50s, be it Robert Aldrich-Burt Lanc...

[TIFF Review] I Called Him Morgan

Jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan was known for creatively challenging the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis on stage with his style and intensity, a youthful pe...