TIFF 2025: Dinner with Friends

There are few things I love more in movies and television than a dinner party. One of the visual mediums best settings, dinner parties are a great way to force characters to interact, put a microscope on fraying bonds, and give everyone plenty of meat to chew on, no pun intended. Dinner with Friends is

TIFF 2025: Bouchra, Homebound, Steve, and Between Dreams and Hope

Late night thoughts on some TIFF movies, there’s only a few more things left to talk about before I complete my coverage! Between Dreams and Hope – Movies like this are a miracle. I truly couldn’t believe that this movie got made in Iran given the many things filmmakers over there have to deal with.

2 Black Guys Talk Godzilla Ep. 14 – Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)

Time to talk pollution, by way of a kaiju movie! This week’s episode of 2 Black Guys Talk Godzilla discusses a unique entry in Toho’s series, 1971’s Godzilla vs. Hedorah, aka Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (it’s official American title), from director Yoshimitsu Banno. Given the significant shift in style, the film has always been

TIFF 2025: Saipan, Scarlet, and Obsession

It’s late and I am now on day 6 of my TIFF experience. No long preamble, here’s some more thoughts on films I saw: Saipan: The feel..bad? sports movie of the year? Saipan is not a bad movie at all, quite enjoyable actually. Taking us to a dramatized version of what took place when Roy

TIFF 2025: The Christophers, Fuze, It Was Just An Accident, Normal, and The Ugly

I have achieved my first five movie day at film festival in eons thanks to the Wednesday slate at TIFF. I was close to making it 6 but my body said no. If you want some spur of the moment thoughts, I document them on TikTok. Let’s dive into some more movies shall we! The

TIFF 2025: Kokuho, Frankenstein, and Train Dreams

It’s day…something of the Toronto International Film Festival (I have lost count) and so fa it has been quite the journey. From epic tales of kabuki theater to movies set in the Pacific Northwest, much has unfolded at this festival. Let’s dive into a couple more movies: Kokuho: Easily the best movie I’ve seen at

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