I came amazingly close to ditching out on my Monday night screening, but looking back I’m glad I went. TEARS FOR SALE won’t go down as the best TIFF movie I’ve ever seen, but it will certainly rank as one of the most memorable. To paraphrase late night’s Craig Ferguson, this is 12 hours of…
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 – ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO
Friday afternoon I welcomed director Guy Ritchie back to the age of jive – tonight I felt like extending the same welcome to director Kevin Smith. He of New Jersey birth and Degrassi obsession has been a tad lost for the last little while in my opinion – and I’m a fan! However, I’m happy…
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…
TIFF Reaction – NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU
Forward: NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU was brought to the Toronto International Film Festival as a work in progress. Please take my thoughts below with a grain of salt since the film is incomplete.They say there are a million stories to be told in the city that never sleeps, and here we stand witness to…