The Film Stage

[TIFF Review] Godless

The “social realism” sub-genre of drama has been awards bait in the European festival circuit lately and this year’s Locarno International Film Festival jury, l...

[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] Lion

Garth Davis' directorial debut Lion is based on a true story. The film makes sure to tell us that at the very beginning of the movie -- just to remind us that w...

[TIFF Review] The Rehearsal

After a 17-year hiatus from directing feature length films, Alison Maclean returns to the screen with The Rehearsal, an adaptation of Eleanor Catton's acclaimed...

[TIFF Review] The Secret Scripture

Writer-director Jim Sheridan has built a career off the plight of the Irish working class, with his best films (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and The...