#TIFF24: “THE BRUTALIST” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
Brady Corbet’s ginormous, 215-minute period epic The Brutalist tells the story of Laszlo Toth--played Adrien Brody, who is phenomenal in the role. Toth was a legendary architect who escaped the holocaust and literally cemented his legacy with a series of glorious buildings. One might imagine the hyperextended 3.5+ hour runtime would have to begin at the very beginning--Toth in the womb or thereabouts, but Corbet opens instead with his arrival in New York. A rebirth, ...
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#TIFF24: “QUEER” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Director Luca Guadagnino returns to TIFF with this beautiful tale of how desire and love can become addictive and lead to obsession in this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel of the same name.
Burroughs’ work is known to be unadaptable. So rather than do a straight adaptation, Queer is a film about the man himself. We’re first introduced to Lee (Daniel Craig) in Mexico while searching for men to take to bed. But his repeated ...
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#TIFF24: “THE SHROUDS” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg's daring and mysterious last work, established “surgery is the new sex”. His follow-up, The Shrouds, posits something along the lines of "death is the new exposition dump". Vincent Cassel runs a cutting edge graveyard complete with 3D live feeds of all the lucky corpses. With that trademark grey coif, Cassel appears to be doubling for Cronenberg himself. They’re virtually indistinguishable when he’s ...
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#TIFF24: “RUMOURS” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
At their annual summit, the G7 world leaders are tasked with writing a provisional statement in a cozy gazebo in the middle of the woods, but everything goes haywire and they become lost in a forest full of zombies and a giant pulsating brain. Y'know, standard TIFF fare. This is Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson's Rumours--a surprisingly vague title for such a specifically wacky film.
"This isn't Summer Camp" notes the British Prime Minister (Nikki Amuka ...
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#TIFF24: “DISCLAIMER” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
In his first venture into television, beloved film Writer-Director Alfonso Cuarón tells an intelligent, savage tale of a woman’s past coming back to bite her.
Based on the Novel by Renée Knight, Disclaimer tells the story of celebrated journalist Catherine (Cate Blanchett) who begins reading a novel that was mysteriously delivered to her. To her horror, the novel is about her and the awful secret she’s kept for two decades.
TIFF is screening the ...
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#TIFF24: “HERETIC” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Hugh Grant gives a formidable performance in this cat-and-mouse chamber-thriller about our beliefs in religion.
Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) are part of the Latter-Day Saints. They’re currently knocking on the doors of people who’ve noted an interest to learn more about their church. That’s when they are introduced to Mr. Reed (Grant). He invites the two in with a promise that his wife is cooking the ...
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#TIFF24: DAY FOUR SIGHTINGS – ANGELINA JOLIE, CATE BLANCHETT, MIKEY MADISON, ALICIA VIKANDER, SYDNEY SWEENEY, ANA DE ARMAS, JUDE LAW, NICHOLAS HOULT, PAUL RUDD AND MORE
Cannot believe how great our day went and this will go down as the day we finally met the great Cate! So many new core memories created!
It was an explosive Day Four of TIFF '24 including:
•Angelina Jolie at Premiere of WITHOUT BLOOD after being honoured at TIFF Tribute Awards Gala•Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas at TIFF '24 for EDEN.•Sam Worthington at TIFF '24 for RELAY•Jude Law, Tye Sheridan, Teresa Palmer, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett at TIFF '24 for THE ORDER•Malala at ...
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#TIFF24: “ON SWIFT HORSES” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
On Swift Horses is set in Eisenhower America in the 50s. Just after the war and when California was a promise of the best place to live. It follows married couple Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Lee (Will Poulter) who plan to move to California. Yet, when Lee’s brother Julius (Jacob Elordi) arrives back from the Korean War, Muriel and Julius notice something inside both of them that creates a bond ...
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#TIFF24: DAY FOUR HIGHLIGHTS – SYDNEY SWEENEY, RON HOWARD, ANA DE ARMAS, JACOB ELORDI, MIKEY MADISON, DAISY EDGAR-JONES, JENNIFER LOPEZ, JHARREL JEROME AND MORE
This was by far the most the most hectic.of the Festival and we are thrilled at the names we spotted out and about today! Totally exhausting, but so rewarding!
Some of the names we saw:
•Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome for UNSTOPPABLE
•Margaret Qualley for THE SUBSTANCE
•Ron Howard, Daniel Brühl, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas for EDEN
•Brett Goldstein for ALL OF YOU
•Mena Suvari and Brandom Routh for ICK
•Rebecca Hall for THE ...
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#TIFF24: “EDEN” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
It is 1929 and Dr. Friedrich Ritter (Jude Law) and his partner Dora Strauch (Vanessa Kirby) have decided to renounce many of their worldly possessions to start fresh on the isle of Floreana. They are pleased with their decision, at least until other people show up on the island with their own agendas. And let’s just say that all of the new neighbours do not exactly get along.
That’s the short and sweet elevator pitch for Oscar-winning Director Ron Howard’s latest ...
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