Ewan McGregor And Ethan Hawke Funeral Dramedy Is Sam Shepard-Lite [TIFF]

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Ewan McGregor And Ethan Hawke Funeral Dramedy Is Sam Shepard-Lite [TIFF]

Arriving at an isolated cabin late at night, Raymond (Ewan McGregor) hasn’t spoken to his half-brother Ray (Ethan Hawke) for many years. Slightly estranged but forever entwined due to their shared parentage, the brothers reconnect as they make an uneasy…

LGBTQ+ Romantic Comedy Goes Mainstream (& Does it Better)

Bros was helmed by noted comedy filmmaker Nicholas Stoller, who previously directed Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the Neighbors films, and The Five-Year Engagement, along with writing and/or producing credits on Trainwreck, The Muppets, and Undeclared, among others. Stoller partnered with Eichner…

Daniel Radcliffe Parodies the Biopic

This review was originally part of our coverage for the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Fifteen years after Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, musical biopics still haven’t learned their lesson, and if films like Bohemian Rhapsody and this year’s…

Doc Looks at Michael Giacchino’s MCU Debut

Just before Halloween, Michael Giacchino took the Marvel Cinematic Universe by storm with his hair-raisingly fun and refreshingly new approach to the superhero franchise. Werewolf by Night was met with high praise from audiences and critics alike who welcomed his…

Scare City Experience Review: Atmospheric and Immersive

Thanks to Park N Party for inviting us down to bring you this Scare City Experience review. Located at Camelot Theme Park this Halloween is Scare City, a 2km trail as guests make their way through numerous themed zones, a…

Bones and All | Film Threat

Kathryn Bigelow’s 1987 Near Dark is a little gem of a vampire flick that I’d venture to say not nearly enough people have seen. Director Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, with a screenplay by David Kajganich, based on a novel of the same…

Causeway Review – Healing With Trauma

Causeway is a movie about trauma and healing. Jennifer Lawrence‘s Lynsee has suffered a brain injury and Bryan Tyree Henry‘s James suffers from the loss of family. The film centers on these two sharing moments and their performances flow through…

Empire of Light Review | Flickreel

From its opening scene, Empire of Light is a movie that any cinephile will want to like. We follow Olivia Colman’s Hilary into a gloriously nostalgic cineplex. The sequence is beautifully shot by Roger Deakins with another Oscar-worthy musical score…

A Promising, But Ultimately Messy Paean To Sisterhood & Sustainable Living [TIFF]

“Until Branches Bend,” which plays in this year’s TIFF Spotlight section, is a promising but poorly executed debut from Canadian filmmaker Sophie Jarvis. While it tries to be a paean to peaches and sisterhood and sustainable living, and at times…

Ana De Armas Shines In Exploitative, Hollow Marilyn Monroe Drama

Marilyn Monroe is a household name and her image often brings to mind a confident sex symbol whose life story has been the subject of many a biopic and books. Much has also been made of writer-director Andrew Dominik’s Blonde,…

Justin Theroux Can’t Salvage This Scattered Adaptation

Of all the many works of film and television to attempt to adapt a novel, The Mosquito Coast remains one of the most strange. Supposedly based on the far more nuanced 1981 novel of the same name by Paul Theroux,…

Nostalgia Trip Struggles With Issues of Race

“Remember your past,” Aaron Rabinowitz (Anthony Hopkins) tells his grandson Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) throughout Armageddon Time, the latest film from writer-director James Gray. Based on Gray’s childhood growing up in 1980s Queens, Armageddon Time does exactly that, as we…

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