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…
Richard Linklater never fails and, more amazingly, continues to surprise. Even as he traverses genres, he always nails the core relationships. At the same time, he understands that romantic love brings us together and makes us make the most absurd choices possible. A riff on the ever-popular Hitman film, his latest film Hit Man takes…
George C. Wolfe’s latest film, Rustin, shows that he finds scripts that give his generational talented actors the to shine. However, this one takes a step back in its originality and covers mostly familiar narrative and historical ground. Rustin stars Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin, a charismatic civil rights leader who keeps getting pushed to…
In their follow-up to the first-ever film entirely animated in oil paintings, D.K Welchman and Hugh Welchman return to the style with a more unknown period piece. The Peasants takes a look at a 19th-century Polish farming village and, more specifically, a young woman named Jagna. Sought after by the men in the village, Jagna…
With Evil Does Not Exist, one can’t help but wonder if the title of Oscar Winning Director Ryseuke Hamaguchi’s film is meant to be ironic or is, in fact, trying to reveal the good nature of our humanity. For a long time, it seems like the latter as Hamaguchi involves us in his carefully-built world…
