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 […]
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 – […]
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 – 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 […]
Movie Review – The Boy Next Door (2015)
The Boy Next Door, 2015Directed by Rob Cohen Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Ian Nelson, John Corbett, Kristin ChenowethSYNOPSIS: A newly divorced woman falls for a younger man who has recently moved in across the street from her, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.Those disappointed that Jupiter Ascending and Fifty Shades of Grey didn’t provide […]
Movie Review – The Handmaiden (2016)
The Handmaiden, 2016.Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, and Jin-woong Jo.SYNOPSIS:Japanese heiress Hideko employs a new handmaiden, Sook-hee, but what she doesn’t know is that the girl is a pickpocket. She’s been recruited by a con artist who aims to marry her mistress and swindle her out of her fortune. […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 434
- 435
- 436
- 437
- 438
- …
- 1325
- Next Page »
