#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 Manâs Wire recreates the fascinating true story of the 1977 kidnapping that made aspiring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis (Bill SkarsgĂĽrd) 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 ...
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#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 ...
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#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 ...
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#TIFF25: “THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Willem Dafoe plays a mysterious man who rents Corey Hawkinsâ basement in this unsettling adaptation of Walter Mosleyâs novel of the same name.
Charles Blakeyâs (Hawkins) life is falling apart since his mother passed away. He fills himself up with booze, canât get a job and worst of all: he canât afford to keep the family home. This sends him on a quest to search through family heirlooms to see if anything is worth money. He ...
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#TIFF25: “THE LOST BUS” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Director Paul Greengrass brings the events that transpired during the California Camp Fire to the big screen. Greengrass and Co-Writer Brad Ingelsby adapt Lizzie Johnsonâs non-fiction book, Paradise: One Townâs Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire. Here, they focus on one story during that disaster. A busload of school children, their teacher Amy (America Ferrera), and the bus ...
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#TIFF25: DAY THREE SIGHTINGS – CHANNING TATUM, KIRSTEN DUNST, CHRIS EVANS, ANYA TAYLOR-JOY, RIZ AHMED, COOPER HOFFMAN AND MORE
sorry! we thought we posted this but it remained in drafts! these days have been rather long and exhausting!
Some sightings from day three!
â˘victor garber at tiff for you had to be thereâ˘tom blyth and david jonsson at tiff for wastemanâ˘riz ahmed at tiff for hamletâ˘kirsten dunst, channing tatum, and dwrek cianfrance at tiff for roofmanâ˘diego boneta at tiff for killing castroâ˘andrew barth feldman, cooper hoffman, maude apatow and nico parker at tiff for poetic licenseâ˘imogen ...
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#TIFF25: “JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
With the distinction of being tiff50's Opening Night Gala, there couldn't have been a more worthy selection than JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME, giving a true national hero his long due flowers.
Actor/Director Colin Hanks, with celebrated Ryan Reynolds among others, listed as Producer, pays tribute to this icon in this Documentary. Often when we think of John Candy and his legacy, we think big laughs and big personality, but it is via a star-studded lineup for talking heads ...
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#TIFF25: DAY TWO SIGHTINGS – ETHAN HAWKE, RENATE REINSVE, ELLE FANNING, SYDNEY SWEENEY, KATY O’BRIAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, EMILIA JONES, MAUDE APATOW, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, JAMIE LEE CURTIS + MORE
Our tiff50 adventures continue with a very successful Day Two that included sightings with:
â˘ethan hawke for blue moon and the lowdownâ˘corey hawkins and anna diop at tiff for the man in my basementâ˘stellan slarsgĂĽrd, renate reinsve, and elle fanning at tiff for sentimental valueâ˘shailene woodley and ben fodter at tiff for motor cityâ˘samara weaving and kyle gallner at tiff for carolina carolineâ˘nick robinson and emilia jones at tiff for charlie harperâ˘emilia jones at tiff for ...
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#TIFF25: âCHRISTYâ REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Christy Salters (Sydney Sweeney) went from being a college basketball player in the late 1980s to being one of the pioneers of womenâs boxing, going by the nickname âThe Coal Minerâs Daughterâ. Behind closed doors however, Christy was enduring abuse and degradation at the hands of her 25-years-older husband and boxing coach Jim Martin (Ben Foster).
For much of its running time, CHRISTY is your standard sports Biopic. It is based on a true story, and it hits all ...
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#TIFF25: “IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Writer-Director Mary Bronstein brings us into a motherâs escalating anxieties in this claustrophobic pressure-cooker.
Linda (Rose Byrne) canât catch a break. Her husband is away on a work trip, leaving her to care for their sick daughter while still working daily as a mental health counsellor. Itâs clear from the jump that Linda is struggling with debilitating mental health issues herself. And if the pressures of her daily life werenât ...
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