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

TIFF 2025: Hedda

A couple of weeks ago I was having a discussion with my roommate about the roles Black people get to play. While he vouched for us needing more heroes, I said that we haven’t gotten to reach our full evil potential. Getting to be as messy and conniving and cruel as possible without needing a

TIFF 2025: Sacrifice, EPiC, and The Furious

The crunch of TIFF has already started (yes I know it’s day 2) to try and get me but I won’t let it! In all seriousness, it’s so fun to get to see multiple films in a day and work on reviews as I feel compelled to. I’ll be doing some quick thoughts every so

TIFF 2025: Dead Man’s Wire

Going to the movies can often times feel like a less dramatic very of being held at the end of a dead man’s wire. You go in with the hopes that it will be good, sometimes you feel like you’re being held hostage and a movie can be powerful enough to change your life. Dead

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