This year’s Queer Palm winner Portrait of a Lady on Fire received its Canadian Premiere at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday 5th September. After the screening the film’s writer/director Céline Sciamma took to the stage with her two leading actors Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel at Toronto’s Winter Garden to a standing... Continue Reading →
The simmering rage in a marriage has been the source of endless amounts of great theatre. Witty, sideways barbs that cut in ways only a lover would know, deflections and parries from an opponent who can predict your every move. Simon Woods’ debut play Hansard (named after the published record of parliamentary debates), has all... Continue Reading →
TIFF have announced that three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie’s Choice, The Iron Lady) and three-time Academy Award–nominee Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator, The Master, Walk the Line) will both be honoured with TIFF Tribute Actor Awards at this year’s inaugural Tribute Gala on Monday 9th September during the 44th Toronto International Film... Continue Reading →
Netflix announced today that Grace and Frankie has been renewed for a seventh season, which will be the last in the series. This this final 16-episode order will make the much loved series the longest running in Netflix history, with a total of 94 episodes. "It's thrilling and somehow fitting, that our show about the... Continue Reading →
Sometimes, you can tell from the opening moments of a movie if a filmmaker has “it”. The Peanut Butter Falcon begins with Zak, a young man with Down Syndrome, attempting to escape from an advanced age care facility in North Carolina. He conspires with an elderly woman, who pretends to choke on her pudding, to... Continue Reading →
The poster for Ready Or Not led me to believe a corseted Margot Robbie had opted to star in a period thriller filled with ammo, murder and mayhem. While we do get the tightly-bound dress and bloody killings, the film stars Robbie lookalike Samara Weaving, niece to Hugo Weaving, and is set in modern day.... Continue Reading →
I played Motel the Tailor in our 5th grade a cappella version of Fiddler On The Roof. We were so young, we really didn’t understand the gravity of this dark story about religious traditions and ethnic cleansing, choosing instead to smile our way through the final song in which a population of Russian Jews have... Continue Reading →
I was really into Bruce Springsteen in the 80s. I’d rip open the shrink wrap on every new vinyl record he made and pore over the lyrics even before listening to the songs. He wrote about ordinary people who had shallow pockets but deep souls. His music, which I called a “dive bar wall of... Continue Reading →
The 44th Toronto International Film Festival opens this Thursday 5th September, with public tickets now on sale. TIFF 2019 features new work from filmmakers such as Marielle Heller, the Safdie brothers, Pedro Almodóvar, Steven Soderbergh, Noah Baumbach, Amy Jo Johnson, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ira Sachs, Lorene Scafaria and Taika Waititi, as well as the final film... Continue Reading →
Rotten Tomatoes, the go-to resource for many moviegoers and TV watchers announced today the results of several year-long initiatives aimed at broadening and diversifying the critical voices reflected in its Tomatometer rating system. In August 2018, Rotten Tomatoes revamped their critics criteria for its Tomatometer rating system with an increased focus on critics’ individual qualifications,... Continue Reading →
