The Toronto International Film Festival runs every September in Toronto, featuring some of the world’s biggest films, filmmakers, actors, and film lovers.
For his first feature film, Dust Bunny, television veteran Bryan Fuller attacks the screen like a man possessed. A visual phantasmagoria of styles, tones, colours, sounds, and focused absurdism, Dust …
In Jamal Burger and Jukan Tateisi’s documentary Still Single (which opens in Toronto at TIFF Lightbox this weekend), legendary, visionary, and still relatively young culinary artist Chef Masaki Saito opens …
With the film Meadowlarks (in Canadian cinemas this weekend), filmmaker Tasha Hubbard makes the leap from documentary to drama by tapping into something familiar. Meadowlarks, co-written by Hubbard and novelist/playwright …
Although films already exist about the historical events that transpired in writer-director James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg, this film examines the trials that forever shaped war crime prosecutions from a different perspective. …
While relentlessly stylish and boasting an impressive leading performance from Colin Farrell, Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player disappointingly illustrates the pitfalls of adapting a rich, complex novel into …
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a landmark career achievement. I don’t mean that in the sense that it’s the best film in del Toro’s impressive catalogue, but in the sense …
John Candy: I Like Me is a heartfelt, loving tribute to an actor who never got their proper due. A legendary comedic (and dramatic) talent who passed away far too …
The Smashing Machine is a smartly made movie that doesn’t attempt to intellectualize a sport where people pummel each other for money. Instead of looking at melodramatic moral breakdowns, devastating …
Series creator and co-star Mae Martin’s unnerving, etherial, and quite often funny thriller Wayward takes a lot of familiar elements and turns them into something refreshing, renewing, and uniquely heartfelt …
No one does disaster and tragedy quite like Paul Greengrass, and while The Lost Bus isn’t the filmmaker’s best work, it certainly reaffirms his status as the king of depicting …
