#TIFF24: “BETTER MAN” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
If you loved Michael Gracey's THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, there is plenty to love about Robbie Williams' lively Biopic-Musical BETTER MAN.
While Robbie Williams dominated the Pop world internationally in the early 2000s, often he was a tabloid fixture. The former Take That member went on to achieve superstardom around the world after going solo and this dazzling spectacle manages to balance high energy with Williams' personal struggles including being bullied as a boy, his ...
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#TIFF24: DAY SIX SIGHTINGS – ZOE SALDANA, KARLA SOFIA GASCON, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, RACHEL SENNOTT, DYLAN O’BRIEN, WILLEM DAFOE, J.K. SIMMONS AND MORE
Even at the half-way point, the star power still is electric at the Festival! Our Day Six sightings include:
•Zoe Saldana and Karla Sofia Gascon for EMILIA PEREZ
•Robbie Williams at TIFF '24 for BETTER MAN
•Jason Reitman, Willem Dafoe, J.K. Simmons, Rachel Sennott, Gabriel LaBelle, Dylan O'Brien, Nicholas Braun, Ella Hunt, Kim Matula, Billy Bryk, Cory Michael Smith and more at TIFF '24 for SATURDAY NIGHT
Highlights below:
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR “MEGALOPOLIS”
Official TIFF '24 selection MEGALOPOLIS gets another new Trailer! The latest from Francis Ford Coppola, is in theatres September 27, 2024 via Cineplex Pictures.
Details:
Directed by: Francis Ford CoppolaCast: Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie EmmanuelSynopsis: MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, ...
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#TIFF24: “THE ASSESSMENT” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and her partner Aaryan (Himesh Patel) want a child. The only problem—they’re living in a dystopian future, the planet is a wreck, and the government has decided any would-be parents must be assessed up front. The criteria for a pass into parenthood is unclear, and the test is designed that way, but the decision is made by assessors, who spend several days observing, testing and judging their subjects. Enter Virginia (Alicia Vikander), a ...
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#TIFF24: DAY FIVE HIGHLIGHTS – ADAM DRIVER, FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, JENNIFER COOLIDGE, KARLA SOFIA GASCON, SELENA GOMEZ, JUANES, FERNANDA TORRES, HARRY MELLING AND MORE
Hard to believe we are already at the halfway point of TIFF '24! Just checking-in quickly on some more sightings! Yet another epic day with huge stars!
•Francis Ford Coppola, Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Grace Vanderwaal and Giancarlo Esposito for MEGALOPOLIS•Selena Gomez and Karla Sofia Gascon for EMILIA PEREZ•Jennifer Coolidge and Ed Harris for RIFF RAFF•Hyun Bin and Lee Dong-wook for HARBIN•Fernanda Torres for I'M STILL HERE•Juanes for PIMPINERO•Caleb Landry-Jones and ...
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#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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