TIFF

Toronto International Film Festival to Scale Back Programming in 2017

PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2017

Each September, the movie industry takes over Toronto with the Toronto International Film Festival. The event is undeniably overwhelming (t...

Paterson

Directed by Jim Jarmusch

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2017

This review was originally published during the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Paterson, the new film by American treasure Jim J...

Toni Erdmann

Directed by Maren Ade

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2017

Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann shouldn't work as well as it does. At nearly three hours in length, the German comedy veers in tone through outrag...

A Monster Calls

Directed by J.A. Bayona

PUBLISHED Jan 6, 2017

Thanks to films like 50/50 and last year's criminally underrated Other People, cancer has become a viable subject matter for comedy films i...

La La Land

Directed by Damien Chazelle

PUBLISHED Dec 23, 2016

This review was originally published during TIFF on September 8 Los Angeles, California: land of opportunities, crusher of dreams. It's th...

Lion

Directed by Garth Davis

PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2016

It's a tale of two films with Garth Davis' Lion, a movie based on the true story of Australian businessman Saroo Brierley. While the first...

Blue Jay

Directed by Alex Lehmann

PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2016

This review was originally published during TIFF on September 16 Writing for TIFF's weekly newsletter The Review days before the premiere...

'Blue Jay' Star Mark Duplass Opens Up About Nostalgia, Therapy and Mortality

PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2016

Mark Duplass has had a life most people could only dream of. Since breaking big with The Puffy Chair in 2005, the Louisiana-born multi-hyph...