#FIRSTLOOK: “CREW GIRL” NOW IN PRODUCTION
Today, Netflix announced that Crew Girl, a new coming-of-age teen drama, is officially in production in Victoria, British Columbia. The series will be produced by Thunderbird Entertainment’s scripted and unscripted live action division, Great Pacific Media.Showrunner/Writer/EP: Vivian Lin (SkyMed, The Lake)
Executive Producers: Jeff Norton (Geek Girl, Finding Her Edge), Lindsay Macadam, Hillary Zwick Turner, Tony Chung, and Lori MassiniLogline: A frothy, coming-of-age teen drama about a ...
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#TIFF25: “TRAIN DREAMS” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
Train Dreams is the story of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a guy from the early 1900s. He cuts down trees. He gets married. He has a kid. He lives a life. I'm not going to get any more specific than that because you really need to see Train Dreams to uncover its indescribable depths. It's about the inherent richness of a long life, and the way things come together, or the way they don't. It's poetic, soulful, and intent on defying any pat explanation ...
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#TIFF25: “WAYWARD” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
One of the Festival's biggest surprises comes out of the Primetime programme in Netflix's WAYWARD, written, directed by and starring Toronto's Mae Martin. The Limited Series centers is set in a small town. We meet a detective Alex (Martin) and their wife Laura (Sarah Gadon) who are expecting a child, as they move back to the town here Laura grew up. We also meet best friends Abby (Sydney Topliffe) and Leila (Alyvia Alyn Lind), who are in the rebellious years of their teens. ...
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#TIFF25: “NOUVELLE VAGUE“ REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Today, we know (or at least know of) Jean-Luc Godard as one of the most famous and influential directors of all time. But before he became the legend, Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) was just a film critic writing for the prolific Cahiers du cinéma in the late 1950s. He is jealous of his colleagues for having made films, so he sets out to make his own. Despite never having made a feature-length film, Godard wants to do things his way and ...
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#TIFF25: “TUNER” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Filmed right here in Toronto, Academy Award winner Daniel Roher gets a full circle moment with his Thriller TUNER premiering at TIFF '25. The Film centers on Niki White (Leo Wooddall), a once aspiring Pianist whose aspirations were curtailed as he developed a condition that made him sensitive to noise. Niki translates his skills unexpectedly, using his special abilities to hear, the help mobsters execute their heists being able to hear safe combinations. He meets a ...
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#TIFF25: “OUT STANDING” REVIEW
Review by Amanda Gilmore
Director and Co-Writer Mélanie Charbonneau brings the inspiring story of Sandra Perron, Canada’s first woman infantry officer, to the big screen.
Based on Perron’s acclaimed memoir, Charbonneau crafts a Film as fearless as its subject. It depicts a system that simultaneously changed while remaining a hostile environment for women. The script is told through two timelines. One while Perron is at the training facility, ...
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#TIFF25: “THE SMASHING MACHINE” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Easily one of the hottest tickets at tiff50, Actor/Writer/Director Benny Safdie is coming into awards season with his latest effort, THE SMASHING MACHINE, in an admirable position. The Biopic about Mixed Martial Arts legend Mark Kerr diverts from the typical Sports Drama, giving us a film that more rests its focus on obstacle, resilience, and the emotional costs of success on a grand scale.
We meet Kerr at the top of his game, an undisputed king who fights for big prize ...
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#FOOD: “THE GREAT CANADIAN BAKING SHOW” SEASON NINE BAKERS ANNOUNCED
CBC today revealed the latest batch of amateur bakers competing on Season 9 of THE GREAT CANADIAN BAKING SHOW (8x60). Ten dough-lightful bakers from across the country will put their skills to the test in the iconic tent for the chance to claim the title of Canada's best amateur baker. Comedians, actors, writers and Second City alumni, Alan Shane Lewis and Ann Pornel, knead no introduction, returning as hosts alongside esteemed pastry ...
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#TIFF25: “IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) is a mechanic haunted by his wrongful imprisonment. By chance, he hears a familiar sound at the shop he works at: the squeaking shuffle of a wooden leg. In this case, it belongs to Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi), who has just come into the shop with his family after his car broke down. Vahid is certain Eghbal is actually the intelligence officer nicknamed “Pegleg” who tortured him and his friends in prison. So he ...
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#TIFF25: “THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Much like her partner Brady Corbet’s Oscar-winning film The Brutalist before it, Oscar-nominated Director Mona Fastvold’s THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is a challenging film to nail down succinctly. It is an audacious project revolving around the “speculated retelling” of the story of Ann Lee (Oscar-nominee Amanda Seyfried), who founded the religious movement known as the Shakers in the late 1700s and believed ...
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