The vista that opens “A Long Winter” is sublime, deep, and rugged as Mikey walks toward the top of the mountain, carrying a weight in his...
How did I not know this? That question has been following me around this week, especially after seeing Crow’s Theatre’s world-premiere stage adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s...
I Play Rocky TIFF Thursday, when tickets went on sale, I sat down with my carefully constructed festival calendar and started turning intentions into actual seats....
I have my press pass firmly in hand, a TIFF schedule finally staring back at me, and suddenly September 10 is more alive than ever. After...
Artavazd Pelechian’s “Land of the People“ My TIFF cinematic adventure is already beginning to look slightly dangerous, and now TIFF has given me another reason to...
Every Toronto International Film Festival reaches the point where my attention shifts away from the familiar names and toward the ones I have never heard before....
There stands a house, one of many that I saw at TIFF, isolated and foreboding, sending chills down my spine and into my gut. There is...
“All in all is all we all are,” sings Sinead O’Connor from her hypnotic “All Apologies” as we are brought into the 1950s, where a messed-up...
I wasn’t quite ready. Or prepared for this, my first film at the Toronto International Film Festival, but I couldn’t have been more thrilled with my...
The cowboy visuals and backdrops intrigue, right from the get-go in Luke Gilford’s captivating and engagingly beautiful “National Anthem” which floats like a hypnotic dream across...
