#TIFF15: “MISSISSIPPI GRIND”
Films have visited gambling addiction in the past like Owning Mahony and The Gambler, but Mississippi Grind from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, goes a bit deeper into the psyche of our down-and-out hero Gerry, thanks to a flawless performance by Australian talent Ben Mendelsohn.
The story follows a pair of gamblers, the lucky Curtis (Ryan Reynolds) who seems to bring to Gerry good fortunes whenever he's around. Already in serious debt, Gerry hopes to make good with his wife Dorothy (Robin ...
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#TIFF15: “SPOTLIGHT”
Named after an actual group of investigative journalists at The Boston Globe, Spotlight gives us the true story and detailed process that led to the prosecution of a group of priests in a shocking abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese, placing sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests at the forefront of the media. These journalists were lauded and awarded a Pullitzer Prize for their work in this partly-Toronto-filmed drama.
We meet Michael (Mark Ruffalo), Matt (Brian d'Arcy ...
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#TIFF15: “BROOKLYN”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Every now and then I will see a movie so perfect that I want to scream from the rooftop or grab strangers by the lapels and urge them to see it. BROOKLYN is perfection personified!
Set in 1952, it tells the compelling story of Ellis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), who leaves her widowed mother and older sister in Ireland to start a new life in America where she ultimately meets and falls in love with Tony (a blistering, compelling, career-making ...
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#TIFF15: DAY 1 SPOTTINGS – HELEN MIRREN, EMILY BLUNT, JOHN KRASINSKI, ELLEN PAGE, MICHAEL PENA, PATRICK STEWART, BENICIO DEL TORO, CHIWETEL EJIOFOR, SEBASTIAN STAN, JESSICA CHASTAIN, KATE MARA, SEAN BEAN, ODESSA YOUNG, SEAN BEAN, MARILYN LIMA + MORE!
We've only just begun! TIFF '15 officially has kicked-off and we're out spotting every one we can! See who was spotted around town today!
Chiwetel Ejiofor for The Martian. The Academy Award nominee for 12 Years a Slave is back this year in Ridley Scott's latest.
#ChiwetelEjiofor at #TIFF15 with #TheMartian.
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Odessa Young. Be on the lookout for this talented Australian actress who stars alongside ...
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#TIFF15: “MISS YOU ALREADY”
One of the greatest surprises to come out of TIFF '15 is BFF-Dramedy MISS YOU ALREADY. Director Catherine Hardwicke already has shown us flashes of her brilliance in her career and to this day we still are mesmerized by her 2003 effort Thirteen, before going on to achieve blockbuster success with Twilight.
This Film centers on two best friends in flashy Milly (Toni Collette) and confidante Jess (Drew Barrymore) and their inseparable bond. After Milly is diagnosed with breast cancer, their ...
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#TIFF15: “THE LOBSTER”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The Lobster is straight-up the most absurd and bat-shit crazy Movie I have seen in a very long time. Right from the Film’s wordlessly strange opening, Co-Writer/Director Yorgos Lanthimos takes you on a relentlessly-unpredictable ride that is unlike anything you will ever expect. And I loved every minute of it.
In the near future, single people like David (Colin Farrell) are sent to a hotel to find a partner. They have 45-days to accomplish this ...
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#TIFF15: “SICARIO”
Every once in a while we get the opportunity to see a Film at TIFF which leaves us shaken and in all honesty, the last one that affected me that deeply was 12 Years a Slave, going-on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Sicario, the latest from celebrated Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, is a Film which deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as that contemporary Steve McQueen classic.
Sicario takes us on a riveting ride with Kate Macy (Emily Blunt) as she accepts a ...
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#TIFF15: “THE WITCH”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
In Robert Eggers' first attempt at writing and directing a Feature, he manages to wow audiences with his haunting and eerie debut, The Witch. The Movie comes across as a Brothers Grimm-like Fairy Tale, before they became Disney-fied, embracing the dark and disturbing in this suspenseful Horror that will deeply satisfy a crowd that has been looking for a good scare.
The Movie focuses on a family as they have to go through their lives after a ...
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#TIFF15: “THE DAUGHTER”
Based on the his play The Wild Duck, Australian Theatre Director/Writer/Actor Simon Stone's The Daughter offers a modernization of the award-winning production. The Drama centers on two childhood friends, Christian (Paul Schneider) and Oliver (Ewen Leslie) as they reunite. A recovering alcoholic, Christian returns home for his estranged father Henry's (Geoffrey Rush) wedding to a woman half his age. Upon reuniting, we realize that there are buried tensions between son and father. We meet also ...
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#TIFF15: “DARK HORSE”
This year at TIFF, we are gifted with not one but two films about Horse Racing. Mongrel Media handles distribution on Dark Horse, a heartwarming documentary about a syndicate of non-experienced, working class pub-goers who wound-up comprising the band of owners behind Welsh racehorse, Dream Alliance. The horse of non-remarkable pedigree was bred from the combined savings of 10£ a week multiplied by 30 people, surpassing all expectations to be good enough to compete in the important 2010 ...
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