To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. For the first half of David Gordon Green’s film Stronger, based on the book of the same name by Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), who lost both his legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing,…
Movie Review: The Red Turtle
A profoundly, life affirming film about the trials and tribulations of life, family, love and death, The Red Turtle is a beautiful, wordless fable that cuts to the core. Despite the lack of dialogue, the story strikes upon an immediate emotive poignancy…
Movie Review: La La Land
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 a difficultly earned gift in growing older. How…
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: The Red Turtle
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. A profoundly, affirming film about the trials and tribulations of life, family, love and death, The Red Turtle is a beautiful, wordless fable that cuts to the core. Despite the lack of dialogue, the story…