The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is a complete whirlwind, and now that it is over, I’m happy that I decided to apply for the Media Inclusion Initiative. While this year may have been light on the celeb star power, it was still no less entertaining to see the films that were chosen and experience
Congrats to the award winners at TIFF, including American Fiction which won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s festival. I reviewed the film here and am happy for Cord Jefferson taking this prize. Very interesting to see where this film will go. The Toronto International Film Festival® ― which concluded last evening with the
Late night TIFF reactions, let’s go! The Teacher’s Lounge Get ready for the most entertaining 98 minutes of hell on a movie screen you’ll see all year when The Teacher’s Lounge arrives to a screen near you. Thrillingly acted and written with real panache, I definitely see how this movie was chosen by Germany as
So I have mixed feelings about nearly everything I saw today at TIFF. It interesting to get a day like this halfway through the festival but each had something that I found fascinating, even when bad. Hell of a Summer Your teen’s first slasher movie, Hell of a Summer is a great entry for younger
Starting with a dramatization of the murder of Trayvon Martin and mixing in other horrors the caste systems of the world have wrought, Origin is a movie you’ll certainly need to gird your loins for if you belong to a marginalized community. It’s a stark look at caste systems and how they have impacted the
American Fiction, the adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure, is a prickly thing. A grounded satire that both funny and emotional, the movie tackles a variety of subjects like race, identity, and the writing/entertainment industries. Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious Ellison, an author and professor, whose disregard for his student sensitivities gets him put on sabbatical. Taking