#TIFF25: “BLUE MOON” REVIEW

By Nicholas Porteous It's the evening of the premiere of Oklahoma! and the show is a massive hit--cause for a big celebration among everyone involved. It's also the first show Richard Rogers (Andrew Scott) composed without his lyrical collaborator Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke). Hart can't stand the musical, and opts to head to the afterparty bar before the curtain call. He'll be the first one there and the last to leave. Blue Moon is a classic Richard Linklater joint, which ... Read more

#TIFF25: DAY FIVE HIGHLIGHTS – DWAYNE JOHNSON, EMILY BLUNT, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, JUNE SQUIBB, JACOB ELORDI, OSCAR ISAAC, MIA GOTH, AMANDA SEYFRIED, LEWIS PULLMAN AND MORE

tiff50 day five is perhaps the most star-studded yet, taking the festival right to the summit! premieres for some of the festival's most-anticipated titles: frankenstein, the testament of ann lee, eleanor the great, and the smashing machine all took place! some of our day five highlights: •amanda seyfried and lewis pullman at tiff for the testament of ann lee •noah jupe at tiff for & sons •lily james at tiff for swiped •lee byung-hun at tiff for no other ... Read more

#TIFF25: “ETERNITY” REVIEW

By Nicholas Porteous Larry (Miles Teller) wakes up in a bizarrely rules-oriented afterlife, having choked to death on a pretzel as a senior citizen. About a week later, his wife of many decades, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen), joins him. They're ready to spend eternity together. The only problem: it turns out her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), who died in the Korean War, has been waiting for her this whole time, she's got a week to pick her eternal partner. Eternity takes an age-old what ... Read more

#TIFF25: “HAMNET” REVIEW

By Nicholas Porteous In Hamnet, Chloe Zhao enlivens an enduring masterpiece with a beautiful work of speculative fiction surrounding the real-life origins of Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted from a novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It's a dark and dramatic counterpart to Shakespeare in Love, working backwards from the classic text (and the very little we know of Shakespeare's life) to uncover a primal story of how we process our pain through art. In this case, it's about a marriage, immeasurably ... Read more

#TIFF25: DAY FOUR SIGHTINGS – ANGELINA JOLIE, DUSTIN HOFFMAN, KERRY CONDON, JUNE SQUIBB, LEO WOODALL, RAMI MALEK, WAGNER MOURA AND MORE

we don't believe we've finally made it through the first weekend of TIFF, but make no mistake, we're still reaching for the peak! tiff50 monday is expected to be the biggest day of the festival with both FRANKENSTEIN and THE SMASHING MACHINE set to bow. some highlights from day four: •kerry condon at tiff for train dreams •dustin hoffman and leo woodall at tiff for tuner •alyvia alyn lind at tiff for wayward •toni collette at tiff for wayward •sarah gadon at tiff ... Read more

#TIFF25: “MOTOR CITY” Review

By David Baldwin Detroit, 1977. Blue collar ex-con John Miller (Alan Ritchson, sporting a ridiculous blonde wig for far too long) is in love with Sophia (Shailene Woodley). Unfortunately for him, she is the ex-girlfriend of local gangster Reynolds (Ben Foster), who has John framed and thrown back into jail for drug possession.  That is the set-up for MOTOR CITY and you can guess (minus a few twists and a bogus ending) where it goes ... Read more

#TIFF25: “THE CHRISTOPHERS” REVIEW

By Nicholas Porteous The prolific and unpredictable Steven Soderbergh goes back to basics with The Christophers. It's the story of two artists--one at the tail end of his life (Ian McKellen), and the other (Michaela Cole) near the start of her career, but drifting in a limbo of art-adjacent gigs--including forgery. His money-minded children (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) send her on a mission to secretly complete an unfinished series of his paintings--The Christophers--which reside ... Read more

#TIFF25: “DEAD MAN’S WIRE”

By Amanda Gilmore Director Gus Van Sant returns to telling stories about real world events with this unbelievable true crime story. Dead Man’s Wire recreates the fascinating true story of the 1977 kidnapping that made aspiring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) into an eccentric outlaw folk hero. Tony feels swindled by Meridian Mortgage Company. A company he partnered with to open a local shopping centre. After years of hollow ... Read more

#TIFF25: “BLACK RABBIT” REVIEW

By Mr. Will Wong BLACK RABBIT has all the makings of prestige television and it premieres as part of this year's Primetime programme. The suspenseful upcoming Netflix release sees among others, star Jason Bateman and Laura Linney taking turns directing episodes of this Limited Series. We meet Restauranteur Jake (Jude Law) thriving with this Michelin-starred establishment, for which the Series is named, and he's about to expand further. The New York Times is about to do a feature, and in ... Read more

#TIFF25: “ROOFMAN” REVIEW

By Nicholas Porteous In Derek Cianfrance's Roofman, the nicest robber you've ever met (Channing Tatum), makes a temporary home inside a Toys R Us, and manages to fall for one of the employees (Kirsten Dunst). How will he juggle a growing relationship with a single mom and avoid getting caught in her place of work? If you find the premise unbelievable, you're wrong. It's a true story. Roofman is a joyfully unexpected genre hybrid. It's a romcom about two divorcees starting over, it's a ... Read more