TIFF 2019 wrapped for me with joy and tears, as I was taught a valuable lesson about love, life, and loss.
Category: reactions
Brief thoughts and recaps on films seen in theatres – usually in a festival environment. While no ratings are assigned, these reactions are sometimes expanded into full reviews later.
We honour our dead with rituals and preparations, but is it for their next journey or our own?
Some films are over the top, some play it straight. But when a film tries to do both, things get messy.
A tender quest for the truth, and a balance between clashing cultures.
Horror has a way of using cinema like a blade. Sometimes the cuts are hard, fast, and violent. The viewer is left a bloody and … Read More ›
A long time ago, a man went on television and taught us all that we had value in this world, and that if we chose … Read More ›
On the anxieties of remaining inside, and the strange adventures that await outside.
A film made this critic’s heart burst with joy. Send flowers…and records.
As the lights came up at the TIFF ’19 premiere screening of TAMMY’S ALWAYS DYING, screenwriter Joanne Sarazen expressed her desire to portray a family … Read More ›
The Best Picture of the eight films nominated for Best Picture is clear.
The third of three puzzling Best Picture nominees; and one I loathe to admit stands a chance of winning a prize.
Something of an also ran that should really be leading the run.