I've had a little time to digest my thoughts on Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, his two-and-half-hour epic adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic novel of gothic horror, that urtext of science fiction offering the idea that humanity's hunger for scientific advancement, and our need to control nature, will eventually destroy us. In Del Toro's vision it's…Read More

I'm noticing a pattern. My number one film of 2023 made me cry, my number one film of 2024 made me cry, and today I saw a movie that really made me cry. It's way too early in the year to say Hamnet will be my number one of 2025, but it's certainly in the…Read More

When you arrive at the third movie in a franchise you don't expect it to be the best, but this might be the case with Rian Johnson's delightful mystery series. Wake Up Dead Man is quite a departure from the big and brassy Glass Onion, and certainly not as cozy as the original Knives Out.…Read More

I've been a fan of filmmaker David MacKenzie due to his work on Hell Or High Water, Outlaw King, and Relay, which I saw at #TIFF2024. All that brought me to a press and industry screening of Fuze, which was held at the Scotiabank Cinema's IMAX screen, a solid choice for a kinetic thriller like…Read More

When TIFF grande fromage Cameron Bailey introduced writer-director Annemarie Jacir this afternoon for the premiere of her new feature, Palestine 36, he mentioned other films of hers that had been programmed at TIFF in years past. When she came out to introduce her film, joined by members of her cast, her crew, and her producers,…Read More