For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Perhaps this demonstrates a lack of creative initiative, but one would believe that if a director was to tackle a subject as weighty as the Armenian genocide, they would not choose to use…
TIFF Review: ARQ
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Every theme ARQ plays with, every unanswered thread it dangles and narrative it explores has been done before and better in contemporary science fiction. Despite this, the film makes for an enjoyable 88 minute experience,…
TIFF Review: La La Land
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Time melts away while watching Damien Chazelle’s latest, La La Land about the nature of being an artist, dating a fellow performer and how dreams and expectations are hard won and that perspective too is…
TIFF Review: The Secret Scripture
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Buried far, far beneath the empty hubris and soapy melodrama of the thin plot in Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture, there’s a fascinating film about women’s rights in 1920’s Ireland or, better said, the lack…
TIFF Review: Colossal
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Certainly one of the films with the most bizarre synopsis at TIFF this year, Colossal, written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, is also one of the most surprising delights. A film which manages to blend monster…
TIFF Review: A Monster Calls
Often times the harshest reality of growing up is the realization that we are, by nature, flawed human beings. The dawning understanding that our parents are not infallible superhumans, that we are not impervious to harm is something that can…
Paramount Will Distribute Chris Rock’s “Top Five” Worldwide
Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom announced it will distribute writer / director Chris Rock’s “TOP FIVE” worldwide.