Maybe hell is a place on earth – a beautiful, cultural, charming place.
Killing In the Name – WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU TRAILER
At this year’s Toronto International Film festival, one of the more emotional nights was the evening where WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU premiered. The movie is the life story of actor/director Brian Goodman, and while it might well remind you of another movie or two you’ve seen lately, that doesn’t make it any less potent or…
PRIDE AND GLORY
On paper, this all probably seemed like a really great idea.
ROCKNROLLA
There’s no school like the old school.
TIFF Reaction: PRIDE AND GLORY
Films selected as TIFF Galas are becoming an increasingly puzzling phenomenon. One would think that those twenty presentations at Roy Thompson Hall would be held for the cream of the festival crop. But it just isn’t so. Here’s a detail that is supposed to be on the down low, but a detail that most festival-goers…
TIFF Reaction – WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU
My ticket wallet feels a whole lot thinner, and the pile of ticket stubs on my desk is growing by the minute. Must mean we’re coming up on the end of this crazy ten days. It’s this stretch of the festival that things get a little unpredictable. In recent years, TIFF has become a very…
TIFF reaction: ROCKNROLLA
I truly wish Guy Ritchie had stayed for a Q&A after this morning’s screening of ROCKNROLLA, simply because I would have liked to have said one thing to him: “Welcome Back”. After seven years off the grid making spousal vehicles and straight-to-dvd misfires, Ritchie went back to what he does best and gave fans of…