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Category: TIFF

News, views, and thoughts from the circus that takes over my home town every September. Films discussed are never rated.

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SAINT MAUD plays TIFF 2019

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 ›

Posted on September 9, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD plays TIFF 2019

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 ›

Posted on September 9, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

LOVE ME TENDER plays TIFF 2019

On the anxieties of remaining inside, and the strange adventures that await outside.

Posted on September 8, 2019September 11, 2020
matineecast, podcasts, TIFF, Toronto

Wicked Little Town: TIFF 2019 pt. i

Bob Turnbull joins me for tea as TIFF 2019 coverage begins.

Posted on September 8, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

HOW TO BUILD A GIRL plays TIFF 2019

A film made this critic’s heart burst with joy. Send flowers…and records.

Posted on September 7, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

TAMMY’S ALWAYS DYING plays TIFF 2019

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 ›

Posted on September 6, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

DESTROYER plays TIFF 2018

Karyn Kusama returns with the next great Los Angeles cop story.

Posted on September 16, 2018November 15, 2018
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF

Wicked Little Town: TIFF 2018 pt. iv

Lindsay Ragone joins me on the couch as TIFF 2018 coverage concludes.

Posted on September 16, 2018October 25, 2018
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY plays TIFF 2018

Trust yourself and your opponent, and keep getting up off that mat.

Posted on September 16, 2018October 25, 2018
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG plays TIFF 2018

Director Dominga Sotomayor shows us a few old photos of ourselves – back when we were more passionate, and burned so much brighter.

Posted on September 15, 2018October 10, 2018
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE WEEKEND plays TIFF 2018

Stella Meghie takes us away for a few days to talk about the ups and downs of modern romance.

Posted on September 14, 2018September 12, 2020
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF

Wicked Little Town: TIFF 2018 pt. iii

Hillary Butler joins me at Thoroughbred as TIFF 2018 coverage continues.

Posted on September 14, 2018October 10, 2018

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