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TIFF

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Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2014 pt. iv

September 14, 2014

Talkin’ WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS with Lindsay as TIFF 2014 coverage concludes.

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Ryan McNeil
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THE EDITOR plays TIFF 2014

September 14, 2014

In the words of Spinal Tap: “There’s a fine line between clever and stupid”

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Ryan McNeil
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A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE plays TIFF 2014

September 14, 2014

So.
Very.
Swedish.

Now let me explain…

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF ben vereen, chris rock, gabrielle union, j.b. smoove, kevin hart, rosario dawson, sherri shepherd, TIFF 2014, top five, tracy morgan

TOP FIVE plays TIFF 2014

September 14, 2014

Chris Rock has been responsible for some of the most cutting and edgy comedy of this century. At TIFF, he takes his game to a whole other level.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF adam sandler, dustin hoffman, ellen barkin, melonie diaz, method man, steve buschemi, the cobbler, thomas mccarthy, TIFF 2014

THE COBBLER plays TIFF 2014

September 13, 2014

Once upon a time, there was a boy from New York named Adam, who occasionally had thoughts of making good movies.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF Ebizo Ichikawa, foreign film, Hideaki Ito, Hiroshi Katsuno, Ikko Furuya, japanese, Ko Shibasaki, Maiko, Miho Nakanishi, over your dead body, Takashi Miike, TIFF 2014, Toshie Negishi

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY plays TIFF 2014

September 13, 2014

A new Mikke film wants to cut into the very nature of betrayal, but this time it feels like his knife is a little blunt.

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Ryan McNeil
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THREE HEARTS (3 Coeurs) plays TIFF 2014

September 13, 2014

So, you’ve fallen in love with two sisters…

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Ryan McNeil
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