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Toronto International Film Festival Review – ‘The Royal Hotel’ is an Unsettling Look at Isolation and Gender Dynamics

The unknown can be fascinating, but it can also be legitimately terrifying. Traveling halfway across the world feels like a great way to get away from everything, and the sense of freedom it brings may be accompanied by an uncertainty about safety and security. Kitty Green’s new film The Royal Hotel posits just such a…

Toronto International Film Festival Review – ‘Wildcat’ is a Disorienting Look at Flannery O’Connor from Ethan and Maya Hawke

Authors write from a place of experience, or at the very least insert pieces of their own lives, consciously or unconsciously, into their work. That may be truer for some than others, and there can be greater depths uncovered years after a writer has lived and died within their writings. Ethan Hawke steps behind the…

Toronto International Film Festival Review – South Korean Oscar Submission ‘Concrete Utopia’ is an Unsettling Exploration of Humanity Cornered

It’s hard to imagine losing everything, and to think about how a person’s behavior might shift when their circumstances are remarkably different. A change like that can happen in an instant without any warning, not that having time to prepare would definitely make it easier. The more complicated question is what happens when many people…

TIFF 2023 Exclusive Interview: Boil Alert Co-director Stevie Salas on the Struggle For First Nations Reservations to Access Clean Water

Boil Alert was co-written and co-directed by Stevie Salas (Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, The Water Walker) and James Burns (Vice). The film was produced by Salas and executive produced by Bryan Porter (The Water Walker), Burns, Michelle Thrush and Jessica Matten. In Boil Alert, activist Layla Staats embarks on a journey through First…

Exclusive Video Interview: Amy Redford on Directing ‘What Comes Around’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Relationships can be complicated, and it’s not uncommon for children to keep them secret from their parents for fear of unwanted input and interference. Yet there are situations in which concern is indeed warranted, and the more someone tries to keep something from being…

Director Hayao Miyazaki’s Animated Fantasy Epic ‘The Boy and the Heron’ to Open Toronto Film Festival

Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s animated fantasy epic, The Boy and the Heron, has been chosen to open this year’s 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The drama is set to screen on September 7 at Roy Thomson Hall concert hall in downtown Toronto, Variety is reporting. After being absent from making features…

Dalíland, Filmmaker Mary Harron Merges Artistic Creation With Subconscious Intuition

Director Mary Harron depicts the poetic decline of the master of Surrealism through the cinematic medium. Her film, Dalíland, had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. We meet Salvador Dalí, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, at the height his career as he entertains himself with extravagant parties whilst keeping up with…

Love Life, A Captivating Depiction Of The Vicious Circle Of Heartbreak

Director Kōji Fukada brings to the silver screen a magnificent cinematic piece that portrays, with utter authenticity, how powerless we are in the face of life, death and often times love. As one of the characters says at one point, there is no science or religion that can protect us from mortality. Love Life is…

Causeway, An Indie Picture That Values Subtext And Intimism

Critically acclaimed theatre director Lila Neugebauer brings together on the big screen Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry in the film Causeway. This psychological drama written by Elizabeth Sanders, Luke Goebel, and Ottessa Moshfegh, follows the friendship and recovery of two individuals affected by trauma. The film, to be released on Apple TV+, had its…

The Good Nurse, A Hitchcockian Medical Thriller That Brings Down The American Healthcare System

The most prolific serial killer in recorded history was a health worker. Charles Cullen confessed to having caused the death of forty patients during his career as a nurse in New Jersey. Investigations made it clear that the victims were more, and experts estimated that Cullen may ultimately have been responsible for four hundred deaths….

Toronto International Film Festival/ “Broker” Review: Hirokazu Koreeda’s first Korean language movie is a Tender and Bittersweet Portrait of an Unlikely Family of Outcasts

There is no doubt that the Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda is fascinated with family. Not necessary a nuclear family and family bound by blood. In his latest film “Broker”, as in his Golden Palm winner and Oscar nominated “Shoplifters”, he forms an unconventional family of a group of criminals. This time on an unusual…