The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015), The Bear Attack Yes, every single word of praise you’ve read and/or heard is true. One can’t escape talking about The Revenant without mentioning its pièce de résistance: a bear mauling that seems to be…
Ally’s Movie Review: Room
In the cinematic landscape we are fed quite a few “power of love” concepts over the course of a year, heck, in storytelling in general. Rarely however, have I seen that idea tackled with as much rigorous raw emotion as…
TIFF Report #6 (The Martian, Room, The Forbidden Room)
They can be found laying in their seats with their heads tilted back while loud growls leave their mouths. They are the snorers who appear at most films during this point of the festival. I mention this because I’m having a…
Movie Review: ‘Frank’
It’s quirky, it’s weird, it’s funny–it’s, well, Frank. Although I was never previously acquainted with a Lenny Abrahamson film, Frank piqued my interest thanks to Michael Fassbender as its title character sporting a strange yet enticingly enigmatic paper mache head…