#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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#TIFF22: “THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER”
By Mr. Will Wong
Shot in secret during the Pandemic in Wales, Joanna Hogg continues the story of Julie, which began in 2019's The Souvenir. Looking to make a Film about her mother, Julie (Tilda Swinton) takes her mother Rosalind (also played by Tilda Swinton) to a home she grew-up in, now a hotel. The vacation is meant as bonding time between mother and daughter, culminating in Rosalind's birthday, all the while avoiding family.
Julie hopes to get a bit of work done on this working ...
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#TIFF22: “CAUSEWAY”
By Mr. Will Wong
Jennifer Lawrence doesn't miss a beat in this return to the screen after a hiatus. In addition to starring in the Drama as Lynsey, a soldier suffering injuries to her brain and body after some time in Afghanistan, she also produces.
The story centers on Lynsey as she returns home to New Orleans and she meets James (Brian Tyree Henry) after she brings her truck in to get repaired. The two form a complicated, unlikely friendship and layers are unravelled the more they get ...
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#TIFF22: “THE WONDER”
By Nicholas Porteous
Florence Pugh, as a solemn English nurse, visits a hyper-religious Irish village to watch over a child who claims to have survived four months without food--worshipped as a miracle. Pugh's rational approach clashes with the deep-seated beliefs of the community, and the life of the child hangs in the balance.
Left, right and center, people were checking their phones throughout this Movie. While I find that behaviour super lame--ESPECIALLY during a Festival film, it is ...
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#TIFF22: “DEVOTION”
By David Baldwin
Ensign Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors, the future big bad of the MCU) is an outsanding pilot and the US Navy’s first black Aviator in history. Sadly, the racist troops around him do not think much of this incredible achievement. Enter Lieutenant Tom Hudner (Glen Powell) who joins Brown’s squadron just before they are deployed to fight in the Korean War. Hudner wants to get close to his new Wingman, but Brown is suspicious of his motivations.
The true story of Brown and ...
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#TIFF22: “WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY”
By David Baldwin
Al Yankovic’s (Daniel Radcliffe – yes, him) ambition in life is to make parody songs scored to the beat and style of existing hits. Fame will not come easy for Al though, and neither will the drugs, alcohol and excess that come with it.
If you know anything about Yankovic’s history as a performer, forget all of it before you sit down to watch WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY. Rather than being a conventional biopic that goes through the tumultuous ups and downs of a ...
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#TIFF22: “THE SON”
By David Baldwin
Peter (Hugh Jackman) has it all. He is a big shot attorney being courted by D.C. for a Senator’s election bid and his new wife Beth (Vanessa Kirby) has just given birth to a beautiful baby boy. Peter’s older son Nicholas (Zen McGrath) is not doing great though – he is not getting along with his Mom, Peter’s ex Kate (Laura Dern), is not going to school and is suffering from severe depression and anxiety. Hearing this, Peter agrees to let Nicholas live with him and ...
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