Wrestling Queens Rose (Marilou Berry), a supermarket cashier fresh out of prison, tries to reconnect with her estranged son through his love of wrestling by forming a band of grapplers with her co-workers. With the help of a wash-out former pro (Andre Dussollier), the group now faces three months of training before facing the dreaded […]
Canadian theatrical legend and part-time big screen filmmaker Robert Lepage is honoured this weekend at the TIFF Bell Lightbox with a retrospective of some of his genre bending cinematic and theatrical accomplishments in Robert Lepage: Possible Worlds. We take a quick look at his career and talk to the man himself (and collaborator Pedro Pires) about his latest film, Triptych, screening this Friday.
Hold Back There’s a great idea buried within Rachid Djaidani’s (probably purposefully) amateurish and underdeveloped look at love across religious barriers that never quite comes out thanks to a lack of real insight beyond surface level issues and a scattershot style that makes the film a chore to watch instead of conveying a vibrant and […]
On My Way Iconic actress Catherine Deneuve stars as a woman who when faced with a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant decides to head out on a road trip. What begins as a quick journey to clear her head turns into a bumpy ride filled with chance encounters, revisiting with old friends, the rekindling […]
Bright Days Ahead When a married, retired dentist Caroline (Fanny Ardant) attends a computer class, she falls for her significantly younger lecturer (Laurant Lafitte) and embarks on a passionate love affair, remaining pragmatic even when learning he has had a crush on her since before the class started. Everything goes well enough until her husband […]
The Informant (Gibraltar) An intense, character driven thriller, The Informant concerns a nearly lawless patch of land in a civilized world and the efforts of one man to stay alive while caught between people on both sides of the law who want to make names for themselves. Gilles Lellouche (Little White Lies, Tell No One) […]
The Scar Bullying and the scarring left behind is examined in this Quebecois miserabalist drama that’s told with a lot of emotion and good ideas, but sometimes misses the mark. Following a rec-league hockey game, Richard (Marc Beland) decides to give new player Paul (Patrick Goyette) a ride home. Unfortunately for Paul, he doesn’t realize […]
Moroccan Gigolos A trio of best friends of different ethnic backgrounds concoct a less than honourable and pleasant money making scheme so they can afford rent on their considerably more honourable money making scheme of running a snack bar in this year’s dreadfully confused and astoundingly unfunny opening night film. Following a car accident that […]
We talk with John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, the filmmakers behind the documentary Finding Vivian Maier, about bringing the amazing true story of one of the world's most unsung (and for a while completely unknown) street photographers to life.
We look at the films and events happening this coming weekend for the 6th annual Breast Fest, the only film and fine arts festival to exclusively deal with issues and topics related to breast cancer.
The British domestic drama Le Week-End delivers a bitter, and sometimes uncomfortably naturalistic look at an inexplicably enduring marriage on the rocks. Yet it’s the bitterness contained within the film’s two leading performances and director Roger Michell’s love of small, quiet moments over grandstanding arguments that make for great adult oriented entertainment.
While it could have very easily descended into movie-of-the-week territory, Benjamin Ratner’ Canadian drama Down River eschews cliché in a thoughtful, well acted look at several generations of women at crossroads in their lives.
The first thirty minutes of Divergent, the first in yet another young adult novel series trying to cash in on the success of The Hunger Games and the lack of Harry Potter in the marketplace, are really incomprehensibly bad. Then, almost miraculously, the film gives the audience two more hours of film and actually finds a way to make it entertaining.
There’s a daringness and certainly a great degree of ambition to Danish auteur Lars von Trier’s latest misanthropic opus Nymphomaniac, but there’s also a been there, done that kind of feel to his work here that’s almost more distressing than the subject matter.
Muppets Most Wanted is to the Muppet franchise what A Good Day to Die Hard was to the John McClane films. A lazy, cynical mess (two things The Muppets should never be) that nearly made our Muppet loving film editor openly cry when he saw how far they have fallen.
