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Tag: mae whitman

reviews

THE WIND RISES

Maestro Miyazaki decides to play one last song, and it’s a tune with tones of home.

Posted on February 23, 2014February 28, 2014
reviews

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Is there another world?

Is there a better world?

Well there must be…

Posted on October 7, 2012September 5, 2015
festivals, reactions, TIFF

Jason Reitman’s AMERICAN BEAUTY Table Read plays TIFF 2012

Thirteen years after AMERICAN BEAUTY took the TIFF Audience Choice Award, the festival brings it back for an encore…a very special encore.

Posted on September 7, 2012September 9, 2012
reviews

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD

The Story of a Kid Whose Brain Always Seems to be Going a Mile a Minute, But Whose Guts Never Seem to Find First Gear.

Posted on August 15, 2010August 24, 2013

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