Jharrel Jerome Leads a Crowd-Pleasing Biopic About a Resilient Wrestler l TIFF 2024
It seems like wrestling films are in, since three projects with this theme are featured in the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival lineup. Yet, one stands out from the rest as a compelling true story about an athlete who defeated…
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Pamela Anderson Glitters In Gia Coppola’s Dissection Of The Las Vegas Dream [TIFF]
TORONTO – Las Vegas is more than the familiar strip of hotels and casino resorts that dominate the city skyline. Its heart and soul – and, yes, it has one – are the people who work in this mostly unconventional…
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Cheat Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The dramatic thriller Cheat differs from your typical marriage gone bad or bored spouses. Instead, it is highly charged with unusual characters paired with anger, victim issues, bizarre obsessions, and cruelty, where some S&M scenarios are shockingly played out. Deriving…
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‘The Listeners’ Review – Rebecca Hall Powers a Thought-Provoking Mystery
From whispers of lost civilizations to haunting conspiracy theories, our world’s greatest mysteries have often teased the limits of human understanding. As these puzzles challenge our perceptions to stir our deepest fears, they also invite us into a dark abyss…
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Pamela Anderson Stuns In Gia Coppola’s Melancholic Vegas Drama
Entertainers - true entertainers, the ones that command the stage with sheer force of will - have long been a dying breed, especially in Las Vegas. As the town has become a debauched Disneyland, there’s less emphasis on Show Business…
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David Gordon Green’s Rote Family Drama Drowns In Clichés & Schmaltz [TIFF]
At the world premiere of “Nutcrackers,” director David Gordon Green subtly acknowledged that he’s been ‘immersed’ in the horror genre for too long, though some might call it ‘slumming.’ After his recent stint with the “Holloween” and “The Exorcist” franchise,…
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‘I’ll Be Right There’ Review
Moms are some of the most underappreciated people on the planet — not to mention some of the most underrepresented protagonists in media. It’s disheartening how few shows and movies center them and allow them to be complex, multidimensional people…
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‘We Live in Time’ Review
The beauty of John Crowley’s films is the grandiosity and scale that he’s able to bring to a love story. His 2015 Oscar-nominated masterpiece, Brooklyn, turned the decision to be with someone a choice that knowingly would define the future…
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Great White Summer Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Documentary director Nick Budabin pulls the curtain back on an unsettling standoff between nature conservation and human settlement in his brilliant film Great White Summer. Out on Cape Cod, seal populations had been hunted nearly to extinction until the 1972…
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A Georgia Gem of a Restaurant
During a recent trip to Florida, we decided to take a road trip up to Georgia to check out some attractions but in an area where the infamous The Walking Dead TV show was shot we vastly searched across social…
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A Timely Domestic Drama That Morphs Into Terrifying Political Horror
The Seed of the Sacred Fig begins as a chamber drama, taking place primarily in the apartment of one family. Iman (Missagh Zareh) is a faithful lawyer working for the Revolutionary Court in Tehran and, when promoted to investigator, he…
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Director Sook-Yin Lee Explores Monogamy, Relationships & Sexual Freedoms [TIFF]
As far as breakups go, cartoonist Chester Brown (Dan Beirne) faces a relatively soft blow. In the early moments of Sook-Yin Lee’s “Paying For It,” he wakes up next to his then-girlfriend, Sonny (Emily Lê), who announces that she thinks…
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