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
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
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
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
In many ways, JUNK WORLD is the perfect movie to be someone’s first watch at a film festival, as it was mine at this years Toronto International Film Festival. It’s the kind of movie you go to a festival to see: it’s boundary pushing, audacious, and technically challenging. It is also at times bewildering, lackadaisical
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the world’s best film festivals and if the lineup they released is any indication, this year could be one for the books. I’ll be heading out to the festival tomorrow to cover for the first time since 2023 and I am very excited to be returning. There’s