For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Time melts away while watching Damien Chazelle’s latest, La La Land about the nature of being an artist, dating a fellow performer and how dreams and expectations are hard won and that perspective too is…
TIFF Review: Colossal
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Certainly one of the films with the most bizarre synopsis at TIFF this year, Colossal, written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, is also one of the most surprising delights. A film which manages to blend monster…
TIFF Review: A Monster Calls
Often times the harshest reality of growing up is the realization that we are, by nature, flawed human beings. The dawning understanding that our parents are not infallible superhumans, that we are not impervious to harm is something that can…
Movie Review: Yoga Hosers
Remember Kevin Smith? He’s the one who brought us the great cult classics such as Clerks and Mallrats. Silent Bob is considered one of our great modern philosophers while Jay was the stoner who everyone wanted to be friends…
Movie Review: Morgan
Morgan is director Luke Scott’s debut feature, and it certainly feels like it. The film’s first twenty minutes provide an intriguing set up: Kate Mara’s corporate fixer Lee Weathers is dispatched to a secluded location in the middle of the…
Movie Review: Max Rose
After 65 years of marriage, Max Rose’s wife Eva has died. Her loss has left him a ruined husk of a man. His granddaughter Annie does her best to take care of him, bringing him his meals, watching old movies…
Movie Review: The Sea of Trees
The Cannes Film Festival has been known to make or break films and The Sea of Trees became one of its biggest victims. Met with uproarious boos, it is the lowest-scoring Cannes entry in over a decade. Talk about harsh. The prestigious picture is now…