<h1>Raevin Larue</h1>

Raevin Larue

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TIFF ’24: Daniela Forever

TIFF ’24: Daniela Forever

This is Henry Golding like you've never seen him. In Nacho Vigalondo's second TIFF feature (Colossal, TIFF ’16), we are brought into Nick's (Henry Golding) world, which is fueled by grief over the sudden death of his girlfriend, Daniela (Beatrice Grannò). In a last...

TIFF ’24: The Deb

TIFF ’24: The Deb

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

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

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

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

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...