#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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#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.Â
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: “KNOX GOES AWAY” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
John Knox (Michael Keaton) is a hitman. He is cold, calculated, brilliant and also happens to have just been diagnosed with a very fast-moving form of dementia. With only weeks of lucidity left and frequent blackout spells, Knox must get his house in order and make amends before it is too late. And with the cops on his tail after a hit gone bad and his estranged son Miles (James Marsden) knocking at his door after a particularly bloody incident, things are not going to be ...
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#TIFF23: DAY SEVEN SIGHTINGS – AVA DUVERNAY, SALMA HAYEK PINAULT, CHLOE DOMONT, VIGGO MORTENSEN
The finish line is in sight for TIFF '23 but we're still out and about! We spotted Ava DuVernay doing the rounds earlier! The history-making Oscar-nominated BAFTA and Primetime Emmy winner looked stunning earlier and was so lovely to stop for a snap! Her film ORIGIN was a late add to the lineup at TIFF '23.
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Shortly after, we saw Oscar-nominated Actress Salma Hayek Pinault arriving to her Red ...
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#TIFF23: “HIT MAN” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) is a professor who moonlights as a surveillance operative for the police. He is asked to fill in as an “undercover hitman-for-hire” during one sting, and surprises everyone with the strength and believability of his performance. Gary quickly becomes the go-to undercover performer and one day meets Madison (Adria Arjona), who wants to hire him to kill her husband.
Talk about your classic meet cute.
HIT MAN, the latest from multi-hyphenate ...
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#TIFF23: “KILL” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Tulika (Tanya Maniktala) and Army Commando Amrit (Lakshya) are in love and plan to get married. The only problem is, Tulika is engaged to someone else and is on her way on the Rajdhani Express train to meet him in New Delhi. Amrit is on the train as well, as are a large number of bandits armed to the teeth with blades of all sizes. When the bandits start robbing the passengers and put Tulika in grave danger, Amrit and his commando friend Viresh spring into action.
KILL ...
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#TIFF23: “THE NATURE OF LOVE” REVIEW
By George Kozera
We first meet Sophia (Magalie Lepine Blondeau) and Xavier (Francis-William Rheaume) at a dinner party with some close friends. The topics and conversations around the dining room table ooze with intelligentsia and witty banter. Once back home, this couple, who have been together for ten years without the “benefit” of marriage, retreat to separate adjoining bedrooms where Sophia asks Xavier if he was sexually attracted to one of the guests at the party who just happened ...
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#TIFF23: “DICKS: THE MUSICAL” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Dicks: The Musical is an instant Cult Classic.
Based on the off-Broadway musical Fucking Identical Twins by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson (who also co-write and star here), you better believe there has never been a film quite like this before. It’s an uproarious Musical-Comedy riff off of The Parent Trap that needs to be seen to be believed.Â
It follows identical twin brothers Craig (Sharp) and Trevor (Jackson) who’ve never met each other. One was ...
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#TIFF23: “WILDCAT” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Ethan Hawke returns to the Director’s chair to explore the life and art of American Author Flannery O’Connor, who’s stunningly portrayed by his own daughter Maya Hawke.
Hawke and Co-Writer Shelby Gaines’s Script focuses on O’Connor’s life when she left New York City in 1950 and returned home to live with her mother Regina (a dazzling Laura Linney). It was here that she was diagnosed with lupus. At the ...
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