Viola Davis continues to perform on a level all her own in Steve McQueen’s taut and thrilling Widows. A socio-political heart pounding heist, McQueen demonstrates his impressive versatility with this 12 Years a Slave follow up, proving that he can and will tackle…
‘A Star is Born’ Review: This Musically Inclined Romance is Uneven but Undoubtedly Evocative| TIFF 2018
A Star is Born,as the fourth iteration of this story, needed to breathe new life into an old story, an idea that the film even references when talking about the familiar and repetitive nature of music. There are only so…
‘Beautiful Boy’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes in Painful, Messy and True Story About Addiction | TIFF 2018
Early in Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, based on the best selling novels by David and Nic Sheff, David (Steve Carrell) is told that relapse is to be expected in addiction recovery – even thought of as one of the…
The 100 Season 5 Review: Through Hell You’ll Find Greener Pastures
To both its detriment and success, The 100 has been unwavering in its depiction of the cyclically destructive nature of humankind. As Bellamy empathetically stated to Madi, so ready to slaughter a crew who had waged war with them as…
Finding Her Voice: Animation [Podcast]
Hello and welcome to TYF’s newest podcast series, Finding Her Voice. Joined by editor in chief Gabrielle Bondi and film and television writer AJ Caulfield, we’ve come together to highlight, celebrate and discuss films directed by women. From the very…
The Best Films of 2018 So Far
Each year it seems that someone will make the decidedly naive comment about how “it’s been a bad year for films” and every year countless others will have their “well, actually’s” on standby along with a tidy list of titles…
Finding Her Voice: Skill vs. Promise [Podcast]
Hello and welcome to TYF’s newest podcast series, Finding Her Voice. Joined by editor in chief Gabrielle Bondi and film and television writer AJ Caulfield, we’ve come together to highlight, celebrate and discuss films directed by women. From the very…
