The Guilty, 2021.Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Eli Goree, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, David Castañeda, Paul Dano, and Peter Sarsgaard.SYNOPSIS:A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.Mere months after it was shortlisted […]
Movie Review – Bad Candy (2020)
Bad Candy, 2020.Directed by Scott B. Hansen and Desiree Connell. Starring Corey Taylor, Zach Galligan, Riley Sutton, Derek Russo, Michael Aaron Milligan and Hayley Leary.SYNOPSIS:A Halloween-themed radio broadcast tells a series of spooky stories set in and around the town of New Salem.Last summer, the horror anthology Nightmare Radio arrived on VOD formats. Just as […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Encounter
Encounter, 2021.Co-written and directed by Michael Pearce. Starring Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Rory Cochrane, Janina Gavankar, Lucian-River Chauhan, and Aditya Geddada.SYNOPSIS:Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat.Beast director Michael Pearce impressively scales-up for his sophomore feature, delivering another tricksy, subversive genre film – […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Lo Invisible
Lo Invisible, 2021.Co-written and directed by Javier Andrade. Starring Anahi Hoeneisen, Matilde Lagos, Gerson Guerra, Juan Lorenzo Barragán, Paola Navarrete, and Cristina Marchán.SYNOPSIS:When Luisa returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout of severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who […]
Movie Review – Small Engine Repair (2021)
Small Engine Repair, 2021.Directed by John Pollono. Starring Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham, Ciara Bravo, John Pollono, Spencer House, Jordana Spiro, Josh Helman and Jay Bulger.SYNOPSIS:Frankie (John Pollono), Swaino (Jon Bernthal) and Packie (Shea Whigham) have known each other a lifetime. Frankie’s daughter Crystal (Ciara Bravo) makes that bond stronger than blood, meaning there is nothing […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Aloners
Aloners, 2021.Written and directed by Hong Sung-eun. Starring Gong Seung-yeon, Jung Da-eun, Seo Hyun-woo, and Park Jeong-hak.SYNOPSIS:A solitary woman re-evaluates her isolated existence after her neighbor dies alone in his apartment.People’s inability to connect with others face-to-face has been one of the most psychologically defeating aspects of the pandemic, causing isolation and loneliness to become […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Comala
Comala, 2021.Written and Directed by Gian Cassini.SYNOPSIS:A man’s journey to face the scattered members of his dysfunctional family and understand the life of his absent father, a failed hit man murdered years ago in a Mexican border town.Part-investigative journalism, part-moving familial mosaic, Gian Cassini’s filmmaking debut Comala sees the director re-examining his own sprawling family […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows, 2021.Written and directed by Michael McGowan. Starring Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon, Mare Winningham, Amybeth McNulty, and Donal Logue.SYNOPSIS:The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.Michael McGowan’s (Still Mine) adaptation of […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Violet
Violet, 2021.Written and directed by Justine Bateman. Starring Olivia Munn, Justin Theroux, and Luke Bracey.SYNOPSIS:Violet realises that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.Actor Justine Bateman makes a disarming filmmaking debut with a bold, skillfully wrought drama about the destructive power of one’s own […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Story of My Wife
The Story of My Wife, 2021.Written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi. Starring Gijs Naber, Léa Seydoux, and Louis Garrel.SYNOPSIS:Sea captain Jacob Störr makes a bet in a café with a friend to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.Ildikó Enyedi follows up her outstanding 2017 Oscar-nominated drama On Body and Soul […]
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