#TIFF22: “MY POLICEMAN”
By Amanda Gilmore
My Policeman follows Tom (Harry Styles) a young policeman who has conformed to the social expectations of 1950s Britain. When he meets Schoolteacher Marion (Emma Corrin) she is immediately smitten with him and the two begin a relationship. However, their world changes when they meet museum curator Patrick (David Dawson). Tom and Patrick fall in love during a time when it was forbidden to do so. Decades later, in 1999, ...
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#TIFF22: “THE MENU”
By David Baldwin
Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) is a world-renowned chef who runs the ultra-exclusive Hawthorne restaurant that is located on its own island with a tasting menu that runs $1,250 per person. Among the guests is Tyler (Nicholas Hoult), a huge foodie, who has invited Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) last minute to join him for the evening.
Spoiling what comes next would ruin the outrageous fun and bleak, biting Satire that courses through the veins of THE MENU. It takes jabs at the ...
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#TIFF22: DAY FOUR SIGHTINGS
We don't believe we've almost made it out the most hectic part of the Festival and usually after the Monday, things begin to calm down a tad. Let me tell you how excited to just relax and watch some Movies! Day Four was an incredible day with two of the Festival's biggest Films premiering. I'll let the starpower do the talking on this one.
MY POLICEMAN
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#TIFF22: “THE SWEARING JAR”
By Amanda Gilmore
The deeply-moving The Swearing Jar follows married couple Carey (Adelaide Clemens) and Simon (Patrick J. Adams) who are expecting their first child. However, when Carey meets bookstore clerk Owen (Douglas Smith) she finds herself falling in love with him.
Director Lindsay MacKay and Screenwriter Kate Hewlett have brought us an enchanting journey through love and ...
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#TIFF22: “NORTH OF NORMAL”
By Mr. Will Wong
Carly Stone (The New Romantic) directs this adaptation of Cea Sunrise Person’s Memoir of the same name and at the center of the story is Cea (played as a child by River Price-Maenpaa and as a teen by Amanda Fix) and her young mother Michelle (Sarah Gadon). Together, they embark on a nomadic life through Western Canada, breaking apart from Cea's grandparents.
Cea is beautiful, young and aspires to be a model, but time and again is caught-up in her mother's revolving ...
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#TIFF22: “THE WHALE”
By Mr. Will Wong
Darren Aronofsky's THE WHALE is as hefty in heart as its tragic hero, Charlie, played to masterful perfection in a performance of a lifetime by comeback kid Brendan Fraser.
Charlie is an online professor whom after losing his partner, has spiraled into obsessive eating and severe obesity. With just days left to live, he is out to reconcile his relationship with estranged daughter Ellie (Sadie Sink). Ellie harbours deep anger and resentment towards her dad and agrees only ...
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TIFF22: “THE FABELMANS”
By David Baldwin
Once Sammy Fabelman (Canada’s own Gabriel LaBelle) watched The Greatest Show on Earth, his life was changed forever. He was going to become a filmmaker and spent every moment he could afterwards filming his own movies, actively employing neighbourhood kids and his own sisters to act and assist with special effects. While his Mother (played by Michelle Williams) encouraged Sammy’s behaviour, his Father saw it as more of a hobby. And with the family consistently on the ...
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#TIFF22: “GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY”
By David Baldwin
The pandemic is raging and Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) finds himself in Greece, ready to board the yacht of billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton). Bron has brought together his closest friends for a weekend getaway at his island, promising a murder mystery and more. Of course, not anything is what it seems and it is up to Blanc to crack the case.
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY is just as fun and wildly entertaining as its Oscar-nominated predecessor. Rather than redo ...
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#TIFF22: “752 IS NOT A NUMBER”
By David Baldwin
On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down just as it left Iranian air space. Everyone on board died, including the wife and young daughter of Newmarket Dentist Hamed Esmaeilion. Devastated, he immediately flies to Iran to claim their remains and after witnessing a partial cover-up first hand, Hamed begins a quest for justice and the truth as to why this tragedy occurred at all.
752 IS NOT A NUMBER is harrowing and frustrating. The ...
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TIFF22: “LIVING”
By David Baldwin
Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy) is dying. He has been given six months to live, nine if he is lucky. More than enough time to get affairs in order, but what does Williams need to figure out? He is a widower, he is estranged from his son and daughter-in-law (despite their living in his home), he has no friends or confidants, and his only joy is going to the Pictures on Tuesdays. Williams, filled with grief and regret, decides immediately to make some changes – and start living ...
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