Becoming Cousteau, 2021. Directed by Liz Garbus. SYNOPSIS: A look at the life, passions, achievements, and tragedies surrounding the famous explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau, featuring an archive of his newly restored footage. Veteran filmmaker Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?) knows the merits of a documentary that skirts glossy presentational tricks and simply gets […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Guilty
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Movie Review – Cam (2018)
Cam, 2018. Directed by Daniel Goldhaber. Starring Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, and Melora Walters. SYNOPSIS: An erotic webcam performer finds her followers stolen by a doppelganger who hijacks her channel, pushes the sexual envelope farther, and otherwise seems determined to destroy her life. The cyber-thriller genre has routinely proven to be a tough nut to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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