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: THE WRESTLER
I approached my screening of THE WRESTLER with a lot of hope and expectations. It seems as though with every week that goes by, another glowing bit of info about this movie hit the fan. expectations climbed a few rungs over the weekend when the movie won The Golden Lion which is the top prize…
TIFF Reaction – APRON STRINGS
After three whole days of home runs, I found myself watching what was more of a single to the opposite field. This, of course is to be expected, since nobody out there falls deeply in love with every movie they see at these film festivals. This isn’t to say that APRON STRINGS wasn’t a good…
TIFF Reaction – BLINDNESS
Perhaps it’s fitting that as I sit down to write about a movie that features an epidemic of unexplainable blindness, that my own eyes are starting to feel really sore (that’s what happens when you’ve been up for 34 of the last 37 hours). In case you’re new to reading this space, and judging by…
TIFF Reaction: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Part of the fun surrounding TIFF for me this year, is the fact that I’m going into many of these screenings pretty blind. Case in point, when I sat down with the schedule, one piece of scheduling logic went like this: “Hmm…Danny Boyle has a movie playing. I’m gonna see that (What’s it about?) Who…
TIFF Reaction: ONCE UPON A TIME IN RIO (ERA UMA VEZ…)
The first opportunity you get – go see ONCE UPON A TIME IN RIO (aka ERA UMA VEZ…). I’m actually going to refrain from trying to write about it, because I’m still so moved and shaken up from what I just watched. I will say this: The movie is a fable, but a fable that…
Rock With You
This afternoon I’ll take my lunch hour to run my selections over to the Dundas Square box office. Say a little prayer to the gods of Random Selection that I get at least half my choices OK? One of my choices was this film, Guy Ritchie’s ROCKNROLLA. Has it really been eight years since this…