#TIFF22: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2022 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
We don't believe the Festival's about to wrap! What a year it was with lots of amazing new memories created. We admit with the first weekend of the Festival being so frenetic, it really came down to being everywhere all at once. And everywhere we were. And if it weren't that way, would it be TIFF? Exactly.
Just highlighting some amazing moments for us at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival this year, all taken on the Samsung S22.
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#TIFF22: “THE FABELMANS” WINS PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD AT 2022 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
And that's a wrap! Award winners were announced earlier today at TIFF's Awards Breakfast Ceremony at LUMA Lounge. As expected, Steven Spielberg's autobiographical THE FABELMANS came into the Festival with a ton of fanfare and walks out with all the accoloades. This is the famed Director's first time at TIFF in its 45 years as a Director, and he made it a big one with the Film leaving a lasting impression on audiences in its generous opportunities for fans to see it throughout the ...
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#TIFF22: “BROS”
By Mr. Will Wong
From Director Nicholas Stoller, who brought us Neighbors and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, comes BROS. Funnyman Billy Eichner, who co-writes, produces and stars here, gets his moment in this groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Rom-Com which completely nails it.
Bobby (Eichner) is a successful Podcast Host and Philanthroper raising funds for an LGBTQ+ Historical Museum. He's 40 and has never been in love, but meets his match in the striking Aaron (Luke MacFarlane) and while they seem ...
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#TIFF22: “HUNT”
By David Baldwin
It is the 1980s and The President of South Korea has just had an assassination attempt made on his life. He survived thankfully, but now the KCIA is fiendishly trying to figure out how this could have happened. To make matters worse, somebody codenamed Donglim has apparently been feeding South Korean secrets to the North. Now it is up to Foreign Unit Chief Park Pyong-ho (Emmy-winning Squid Game Actor Lee Jung-jae, also HUNT’s Director and Co-Writer) and Domestic Unit Head ...
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#TIFF22: “THE GOOD NURSE”
By Amanda Gilmore
This True Crime Thriller is about Charles Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) a nurse who over a 16-year career confessed to killing 29 people, although the actual number is believed to be much higher. The Film follows Amy (Jessica Chastain), a nurse who worked with Charles and helped the detectives get their confession.
Director Tobias Lindholm, making his English language Feature Debut, creates an enthralling murder mystery Film. He opens on a ...
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#TIFF22: “PROJECT WOLF HUNTING”
By David Baldwin
A group of the worst of the worst prisoners are being transferred in secret from the Philippians to South Korea on a cargo ship. The cops assigned on board are doing their best and putting on happy faces, though they all know they are in over their heads.
What follows this elevator pitch can be summed up quite succinctly as “Shit gets real”. I do not use the phrase lightly – I should have worn a poncho when I saw PROJECT WOLF HUNTING in order to save myself from ...
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#TIFF22: “BUTCHER’S CROSSING”
By David Baldwin
It is the 1870s and Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger of The White Lotus and the Fear Street Trilogy) has just dropped out of Harvard. He is looking to experience more of what life has to offer and travels West to the titular Butcher’s Crossing in Kansas. He desperately wants to go on a buffalo hunt, yet cannot join any hunter’s party. That is until he meets Miller (Nicolas Cage), who claims he knows of a remote valley in the Colorado Rockies, untouched by hunters and ...
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#TIFF22: “THE INSPECTION”
By Mr. Will Wong
Based on Writer/Director Elegance Bratton's autobiographical account of his time in the military, THE INSPECTION truly is a hidden gem of the Festival.
The Film centers on French (Jeremy Pope), a young black gay man who finds himself homeless, with his mother (Gabrielle Union) kicking him out, disapproving of his sexuality. He decides to join the military, but when others suspect that he is homosexual, he finds himself without an ally as his fellow recruits vie with him ...
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#TIFF22: “HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE”
By Amanda Gilmore
This exceptional Thriller follows a group of Environmental Activists, who band together on a daring mission to blow up a pipeline in West Texas.
Co-Writers Ariela Barer (who also stars as Xochitl), Jordan Sjol, and Daniel Goldhaber (who also serves as Director and Editor) have adapted the controversial book by Andreas Malm of the same name. It’s a non-fiction Novel that claims sabotage is an effective solution in fighting ...
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#TIFF22: DAY EIGHT SIGHTINGS – CHAT WITH LEE JUNG-JAE & JUNG WOO-SUNG ON “THE HUNT”
We've made it to the finish! What a Festival this was! We're still reeling literally from all the excitement, and have really been doing as much as we can before the curtain drops Sunday. Though I love the stars so much, I love cozying-up with a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte in a dark theatre and just escaping with the Movies. The Team and I have shared our thoughts on everything we saw at the Festival here and there are a few more Reviews coming.
By the way, we will soon be drawing our ...
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