Have you seen the latest Wes Anderson movie? For the first time, his new work required the funds of everyone’s favorite subscription series, Netflix. In some ways, this makes his content more accessible. I was able to download the longest of the four short films he’s realized this year. I’ll review them separately since they’re…
Another year, another rom-com with the weight of having to revive a mostly dead theatrical genre. While it likely won’t bring the genre back to its former glory, Anyone But You delivers a solid film worthy of attention from some of its well-timed jokes and star-making performances. After a first date, both Bea (Sydney Sweeney)…
When the Sandford family takes a weekend to escape their busy urban life in Brooklyn, they leave at the beginning of an unprecedented event in history. As the family tries to unravel the implications of what has happened, the family whom they rented their AirBNB from shows up to take shelter, leaving two families in…
Citizen Minutes often feels both relatable and universal. That’s its strength. The doc pulls shorts from many unique and diverse communities to look at the issues and triumphs they’ve made in their groups and as individuals. The films are all short documentaries that center around different unique groups and individuals who are trying to make…
Writer-director Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me finds melodrama at every angle, using its talented cast to paint thin portraits of people whose lives should be very simple and nice, but they simply aren’t. Steven (Peter Dinklage) is considered a genius-level, contemporary English opera composer who is struggling with mental health which is only agonized…
Now streaming on Hollywood Suite, Wreck is a British comedy horror series from the BBC. The show stars Oscar Kennedy as Jamie, a young man who takes a job on board a cruise ship in order to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his sister’s disappearance. As he tries to get information out of the crew…
As absurd as its title Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person tells the story of Sasha who, as a young vampire, was cursed with the capacity to have empathy for her food. Seeking alternatives to her need for blood, Sasha witnesses another teen deprived of life in Paul, a young outcast who appears on the…
In this harrowing contemporary humanist drama, auteur Agnieszka Holland becomes the second Polish film of TIFF to look at the banality of evil but shows us how it’s happening in the present. Shot in a very draining black and white verite documentary style, Green Border acts as an intercrossing anthology film about different people involved…
A cleanly presented film, whose story will likely stir up both empathetic and artistic energies, Sing Sing sees the power of theatre come to life in what many consider the darkest havens of America. Sing Sing Correctional Facility boasts an arts rehabilitation program that sees incarcerated men and women turn to acting as they form…
Confidently directed by Lulu Wang, her follow-up to The Farewell received much critical acclaim out of Sundance and finally should establish her as “going Hollywood”. Expats is a six-part miniseries based on the book Expatriates by Janine K Lee. TIFF invited Lulu to share what was the penultimate episode of the series called Central. These…
