<h1>Raevin Larue</h1>

Raevin Larue

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TIFF ’24: The Deb

TIFF ’24: The Deb

Sep 15, 2024

I am not gonna lie. I hate musicals.  The only two that I have ever enjoyed was Hairspray and Rent but I always felt like they took themselves too seriously and I couldn’t connect. But then I saw The Deb at TIFF, and I realised how completely wrong I was to hate them....

TIFF ’24: Riff Raff

TIFF ’24: Riff Raff

Sep 15, 2024

God I wanted to like this movie. Ed Harris, Lewis Pullman and Bill Murray? Gabriel Union? I was so in. I was also enticed by the films breakout star Miles J Harvey, in a role I rarely get to see black men play. Sadly, this dysfunctional family, semi-Christmas movie...

TIFF ’24: On a Sunday at Eleven

TIFF ’24: On a Sunday at Eleven

Sep 15, 2024

In 2019, on the heels of heavy discussion surrounding black life in Canada, George Floyd, and the impact of micro-aggressions on the black community, writer and director, Alicia K. Harris released her critically acclaimed short, Pick, a film about a young black girl...

TIFF ’24: Shell

TIFF ’24: Shell

Sep 13, 2024

Shell, directed by Max Minhella combines body horror and dark comedy to reflect Hollywoods obsession with youth and beauty, and to be honest, it was pretty disappointing. The film stars Elisabeth Moss as Samantha, a desperate actress making a last ditch attempt to...

TIFF ’24: Seeds

TIFF ’24: Seeds

Sep 13, 2024

This movie is going to be a cult classic. Exciting, thrilling, and action-packed with a killer soundtrack, Kaniehtiio Horn absolutely crushes it with her directorial debut. In Seeds, Ziggy's (Horn) life is on the up and up. Living in what feels like the most expensive...

TIFF ’24: Shook

TIFF ’24: Shook

Sep 12, 2024

Ashish is lost. Depressed, apathetic and harbouring ocean levels of resentment, his mind is haunted by the anxiety of selling his first novel- white publishers don’t want a non-exotic Indian story. His spirit is disturbed by the aftermath of his parent's divorce. He...

TIFF ’24: Nightbitch

TIFF ’24: Nightbitch

Sep 12, 2024

This is the most beautiful portrayal of motherhood I have ever seen. Mother (Amy Adams) is a first-time mom to a rambunctious toddler and she is struggling. Overworked and sleep-deprived, she is stuck in a routine that makes her feel less and less like herself every...

TIFF ’24: Nutcrackers

TIFF ’24: Nutcrackers

Sep 6, 2024

Nutcrackers is a film that we have all seen before. Hot shot, business person and proud workaholic is forced to return to their hometown after a sudden tragedy or some other plot device. In this holiday-set, family film, very important yet seemingly overlooked...