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Category: festivals

Coverage of TIFF, Hot Docs, NXNE, and Toronto After Dark

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

JEAN OF THE JONSES plays TIFF 2016

Welcome to Jones’ family dinner. Grab a plate, and get comfy…shit’s about to get real.

Posted on September 16, 2016September 12, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE BAD BATCH plays TIFF 2016

The woman behind A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT dares you to wander into the desert and take another bite.

Posted on September 14, 2016September 18, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

AMERICAN HONEY plays Tiff 2016

“Steady as a preacher, free as a weed…” can both be exploited for American need.

Posted on September 13, 2016September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

BUSTER’S MAL HEART plays TIFF 2016

When paying one’s dues turns into overtaxation, how long until one is completely bankrupt?

Posted on September 12, 2016September 18, 2016
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF

Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2016 pt. ii

Jess Rogers joins me in The Annexe as TIFF 2016 coverage continues.

Posted on September 12, 2016September 16, 2016
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF

Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2016 pt. i

Shane McNeil joins me on John Street as TIFF 2016 coverage begins.

Posted on September 11, 2016September 15, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

A UNITED KINGDOM plays TIFF 2016

It’s the small, subtle moments that make the biggest movies so memorable.

Posted on September 11, 2016September 15, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

WEREWOLF plays TIFF 2016

When a film rubs you the wrong way, is it because you don’t like it? Or because you don’t like how it makes you feel?

Posted on September 10, 2016September 13, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THINGS TO COME plays TIFF 2016

Study the ways of the world all you want; the world will still do to you whatever it damned well pleases.

Posted on September 9, 2016September 13, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS plays Hot Docs 2016

Put presumptions aside and make the world your burrito.

Posted on May 8, 2016May 19, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

HIP HOP EVOLUTION plays Hot Docs 2016

Cuz it can’t, it won’t, and it don’t stop.

Posted on May 7, 2016May 19, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

OVARIAN PSYCOS plays Hot Docs 2016

Once a psycho, always a psycho.

Posted on May 6, 2016May 14, 2016

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