Madame Web Review: A Lifeless Origin Story
Superhero fatigue is in high gear as Sony's latest Spider-verse film, Madame Web, appears dead on arrival.
Tahar Rahim
The Mauritanian Review: A Guantanamo Story
A solid Guantanamo thriller starring Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, and Shailene Woodley.
The Eddy Review: Netflix Jazzes It Up
What a treat it is to hear live music again! 'The Eddy' is a must-stream for jazz fans, and anyone who loved HBO's 'Treme'
The Kindness of Strangers Review: Your Holiday Turkey
Pedestrian feel-good bullsh*t.
TIFF 2017: The Price of Success
TIFF 2017: The Price of Success Review.
TIFF 2014: Samba Review
Samba Gala Samba is a beautifully crafted film that explores the illegal immigrant experience and its impact on human dignity through humour and heartbreak. Directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache re-unite with actor Omar Sy following their critically acclaimed comedy-drama Les Intouchables . Here, the story focuses on a Senegalese man named Samba Cissé (Sy) […]
CineFranco 2014: The Informant (Gibraltar) Review
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 […]
TIFF 2013: The Past Review
The Past Special Presentation Director: Asghar Farhadi While not up to the same dramatic highs as his previous award winning effort A Separation , Asghar Farhadi returns with an even more melodramatic look at a crumbling family going through a scarring, drawn out divorce. Ahmed (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from Tehran to finalize his […]
