#TIFF23: “DADDIO” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Writer/Director Christy Hall makes a phenomenal feature debut with a brilliant pair of leads in DADDIO. Though the meter is stopped with a flat rate fare, we never quite know where we are headed as we follow a young woman (Dakota Johnson), boarding a cab at JFK Airport, only to be stuck in traffic. She's driven by Clark (Sean Penn), a foul-mouth taxi driver who tells it like it is. The two make some playful banter back and forth as we learn about their loves and the ...
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#TIFF23: “MEMORY” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Writer/Director Michel Franco (Sundown) returns to TIFF with his latest effort, MEMORY, a beautiful story about two broken souls who come together under unlikely circumstances.
Silvia (Jessica Chastain) is working on staying sober, raising her teenage daughter and her dayjob at an adult daycare. After joining her sister (Merritt Wever) at a high school reunion, she sees Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) who inexplicably decides to follow her home. But there's definitely more than ...
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#TIFF23: DAY EIGHT SIGHTINGS – ANDY LAU & CHRISTY HALL
Andy Lau is a recognizable name in any Chinese household and it is absolutely amazing that he's here at TIFF '23. What an honour! The multi-hyphenate began his career as an Actor on Hong Kong's premiere network TVB and from that he became an international Movie Star, and one of the top kings of Chinese Pop.
Lau is here this year for THE MOVIE EMPEROR, premiering Friday night at Roy Thomson Hall. The Satire has Lau playing a middle-aged movie star trying to reclaim both the crown snd ...
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#TIFF23: “THE HOLDOVERS” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Director Alexander Payne is in top form with the delightful Dramedy The Holdovers.
The Film takes place in 1970 over Christmas break at an elite boarding school in small-town Massachusetts. It follows strict Professor Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) who’s gifted the undesirable assignment of supervising the students unable to return home for the Christmas holidays. Resolved to have the students suffer along with him, he makes them start the next semester's ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: “TROLLS BAND TOGETHER”
This holiday season, get ready for an action-packed, all-star, rainbow-colored family reunion like no other as Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return for the new chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s blockbuster musical franchise: Trolls Band Together.
https://youtu.be/AtiD2e2OhRM?feature=shared
After two films of true friendship and relentless flirting, Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) are now officially, finally, a couple (#broppy)! As they grow closer, Poppy ...
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#TIFF23: “ORIGIN” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Ava DuVernay’s poetic and essential Origin is one of the year’s best. The esteemed Director merges Isabel Wilkerson’s life along with her research to create an inspired adaptation of the Author’s New York Times Bestseller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
DuVernay’s focus on Wilkerson’s private life, specifically her losses and grief the years before she began her research, makes Origin part biopic part historical ...
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#TIFF23: WINDSOR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR WIFF PRIZE IN CANADIAN FILM
Vincent Georgie, Executive Director and Chief Programmer of the Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) today announced the ten films nominated for the WIFF Prize in Canadian Film. The prize carries a cash value of $25,000 and is awarded to the director of the chosen film. All ten nominees will screen at WIFF this fall, which runs from October 26 to November 5, 2023 in Windsor, Ontario.
The nominees were announced earlier today at the WIFF at TIFF Luncheon in Toronto and the prize will ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: “THE WONDERUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR” TRAILER
Today we get a brand-new Trailer for THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR, the latest from Wes Anderson. Arriving September 27, 2023 on Netflix.
Director: Wes AndersonWriter: Wes AndersonProducers: Wes Anderson, Steven Rales, Jeremy DawsonCo-Producers: Octavia Peissel, John Peet, Alice DawsonCast: Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, Richard AyoadeRuntime: 39 minsLogline: A beloved Roald Dahl short story about a rich man who learns about a guru who can see ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: “AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM” NEW CANADIAN TRAILER
Director James Wan and Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa—along with Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Nicole Kidman—return in the sequel to the highest-grossing DC film of all time: “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPO3veLH9OU
Having failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once and for all. This time Black Manta is more ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: “MR. & MRS. SMITH” SERIES COMING TO PRIME VIDEO EARLY 2024
Today, Amazon Studios announced the new series Mr. & Mrs. Smith is now premiering in early 2024, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. From co-creators and executive producers Donald Glover (Swarm, Atlanta) and Francesca Sloane (Atlanta, Fargo), the series, a reimagining of the 2005 New Regency film, stars Glover as John Smith and Maya Erskine (PEN15) as Jane Smith.
About Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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