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SOLO plays TIFF 2023

September 12, 2023

Why choose between being handsome and gorgeous, when one can be both?

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Ryan McNeil
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SCARBOROUGH plays TIFF 2021

September 12, 2021

Every major city in the world has a “Scarborough”

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Ryan McNeil
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BEANS plays TIFF 2020

September 17, 2020

There’s something especially intense about coming of age during a crisis.

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Ryan McNeil
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VIOLATION plays TIFF 2020

September 15, 2020

A midnight madness selection examines the human capacity for cruelty.

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Ryan McNeil
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Winchester Chronicles no 6: STORIES WE TELL

June 1, 2020

Corey Atad joins The Sixth Dispatch to discuss STORIES WE TELL

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Ryan McNeil
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BELOW HER MOUTH plays TIFF 2016

September 17, 2016

April Mullen presents a pretty picture about love, sex, and the blank spaces in-between.

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Ryan McNeil
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WEREWOLF plays TIFF 2016

September 10, 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?

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Ryan McNeil
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