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[TIFF Review] Janeane from Des Moines

It’s so easy to take cheap shots at the Tea Party; in fact what Bill Maher can do in a joke or a monologue, Janeane from Des Moines spends 77 minutes doing with...

[TIFF Review] The Impossible

Making a film about a tragedy like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami should never be taken lightly. With over 230,000 people dead in fourteen countries, the entire ...

[TIFF Review] Hotel Transylvania

Directed by the man behind the animated television shows Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack, Hotel Transylvania is Genndy Tartakovsky’s first feature film. It...

[TIFF Review] Greetings from Tim Buckley

Dan Algrant’s Greetings from Tim Buckley simultaneously tracks the artistic development of musician father and son Tim and Jeff Buckley at around the same times...

[TIFF Review] Ship of Theseus

The opening title explains that the Ship of Theseus was replaced, piece by piece, and rebuilt into a new ship – therefore the questions is asked: which ship is ...

[TIFF Review] The Lords of Salem

Rob Zombie’s films always strike up controversy; not the kind that’s associated with politics like polemical documentaries, or what the genre he operates in, ho...

[TIFF Review] Passion

Five years after his last foray behind the camera, writer/director Brian De Palma looks to take some of the alternative devices used to film Redacted and combin...

[TIFF Review] The Company You Keep

In Robert Redford and Lem Dobbs' adaptation of Neil Gordon's novel The Company You Keep, the personal futures fought for by the militant Weather Underground dur...

[TIFF Review] Silver Linings Playbook

I know it's misguided, but my interest in David O. Russell films kind of ended after The Fighter. This was a guy who used to pave his own path with challenging ...

[Review] 10 Years

Awkward, fun, exciting, detestable, complicated, curious, interesting. I imagine the same words could be used to describe attending your own high school reunion...