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TIFF

festivals, reactions, TIFF brian glazer, scarlett johansson, sci-fi, TIFF 2013, under the skin

UNDER THE SKIN plays TIFF 2013

September 17, 2013

Science fiction has a tendency to be overly dense and inaccessible at times. This was one of those times.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF aj bowen, amy seimetz, gene jones, joe swanberg, kentucker audley, the sacrament, ti west, TIFF 2013

THE SACRAMENT plays TIFF 2013

September 16, 2013

Ti West takes us down an isolated road to meet some true believers. The question is whether they believe in the right thing, or the right man.

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Ryan McNeil
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THE AMAZING CATFISH plays TIFF 2013

September 16, 2013

We don’t get to choose our family, but sometimes a family is kind enough to reach out and choose us.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF Cho Jae-hyun, foreign film, kim ki-duk, korean, Lee Eun-woo, Seo Young-ju, TIFF 2013

MOEBIUS plays TIFF 2013

September 16, 2013

Easily the craziest film I watched all week – one very messed up look at the sexual politics of the family dynamic.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF begin again, can a song save your life, john carney, lindsay ragone, TIFF 2013

Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2013 pt. iv

September 16, 2013

Talkin’ CAN A SONG SAVE YOUR LIFE? with Lindsay as TIFF 2013 coverage concludes.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF Amy Hubermann, Andrew Bennett, Andrew Scott, Brian Gleeson, comedy, Hugh O'Conor, irish, Michael Legge, Peter McDonald, the stag, TIFF 2013

THE STAG plays TIFF 2013

September 15, 2013

TIFF presents a comedy Hollywood writers wish they were clever enough to come up with.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF animation, foreign, hayao miyazaki, japanese, Studio Ghibli, the wind rises, TIFF 2013

THE WIND RISES plays TIFF 2013

September 15, 2013

“When the wind rises, you would have to attempt to live.”

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Ryan McNeil
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