Practically nothing about death sounds exciting, we can try to lie and trick ourselves into believing otherwise but let us be honest, we all fear it. And yet, we consume it at almost every angle. Very early on in Noah Baumbach’s complex film WHITE NOISE Don Cheadle’s Murray Siskind, a college professor, rolls tape on…
DON’T WORRY DARLING: OLIVIA WILDE IS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AND WE SHOULD ALL BE WORRIED
Selling a movie as “nothing is what it seems” is a very common sales pitch. The notion of mystery will always be intriguing to audiences, but this only works if the movie you have is actually well…surprising. The obvious can’t be sugar coated with fancy dresses, shiny cars and a sex scene or two featuring…
BLONDE REVIEW: SOMEBODY SAVE MARILYN MONROE FROM ANDREW DOMINIK
Every once in a while you find yourself asking several times throughout a film, “who is this even for?” Yes basically every movie will find its audience and there is something great about that, but at the same time there are those films that you are just baffled by. Andrew Dominik who is best known…
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS REVIEW: RUBEN ÖSTULND BURNS IT TO THE GROUND IN THE YEAR’S WILDEST RIDE
Ruben Östlund is ready for it all to burn to the ground. A director who knows how to have a good time is also ready for total destruction of the world we have all too carelessly accepted. A world where art is a commodity and only those who reap from its financial benefit gets to…
THE WHALE TIFF REVIEW: BRENDAN FRASER IS SUPERB IN DARREN ARONOFSKY’S HEARTWRENCHING TALE OF DESTRUCTION
Nobody deserves a comeback more than Brendan Fraser. In fact he deserves all the thanks in the world for being one of the few things that reunites the cesspool that is twitter. If you look anywhere you’ll see nothing but joy and praise for the man who was disgustingly blacklisted from Hollywood. And while this…
PEARL TIFF REVIEW: MIA GOTH CONTINUES TO AMAZE IN THIS BLOOD LUST CHARACTER STUDY PREQUEL
When Ti West gave the world X, his tribute to slasher films of the independent 70’s generation none of us could have guessed that the film would spawn a spin-off prequel. Let alone that said prequel would be the next step in cementing a new horror icon in the genre. But when West was out…
WENDELL & WILD TIFF REVIEW: GORGEOUS ANIMATION CAN’T SAVE AN OVERSTUFFED MOVIE DESPERATE TO HAVE ITS OWN SPINOFF
Henry Selick has been away for too long. Not since 2009’s Coraline has he directed a movie. But his name has become legendary in the world of animation and bringing real horror to children’s movies. Both The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach have allowed for an entire generation of children to…
THE FABELMANS TIFF REVIEW: STEVEN SPIELBERG BRINGS US HOME WITH A SPECTACULAR REAL LIFE FAIRY TALE
There are many ways to look at movies, but in the end it sort of boils down to two very different angles. The technicalities of filmmaking and then the magic behind it. If you are lucky enough you will be able to see film at least one of these ways, and if you are truly…
WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY TIFF REVIEW: A GLORIOUSLY ABSURD BIOPIC TO END ALL BIOPICS
There is only one way to tell the story of Alfred Matthew Yankovic, and that is with the truth…well sort of. Better known to the world by his stage name Weird Al Yankovic, the king of parody songs and accordion maestro has been in the music scene since the mid 70’s and has lived a…
CLERKS III REVIEW: KEVIN SMITH COMPLETES HIS NEW JERSEY LOVE LETTER AND GIVES US ONE OF THE BEST TRILOGIES OF ALL TIME
New Jersey is a magical place. For those who aren’t from the Garden State it’s impossible to explain how the pork roll egg and cheese capital of the world is truly a glorious place full of lost and talented souls. In order for this review to not seem completely biased let’s get this out of…
No Assembly Required 