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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is an exciting, standalone Star Wars spin off – a short story in the Star Wars universe, as opposed to the forty year span of the Star Wars films. This is a first, its one and done. The story’s streamlined, the characters are engaging and the universe is nostalgically …
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David Frankel / Collateral Beauty Oscar winning director David Frankel make audiences laugh and cry, just the things his mother told him she liked in entertainment. After all, Marley & Me left us in tears, the Devil Wears Prada made us laugh and Hope Springs did both. Collateral Beauty with …
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Cinematheque at TIFF Bell Lightbox Until Dec 23rd The late, great German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s contributions to film have been widely acknowledged. The cinematic universe he creates is ordinary and extraordinary, melodramatic and mundane, operatic and obtuse, cruel and loving, …
Jessica Chastain presents a new kind of feminine hero in Miss Sloane – or anti-hero depending on your point of view. She’s extraordinary and brilliant, a bruisingly cunning woman in a powerful position as an anti-gun lobbyist. She moves forward like a shark, never looking at the damage she’s caused …
Things to Come (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve) stars Isabelle Huppert as a married author in Paris who teaches writing at the local university. We meet her just as her troubles are piling up at breakneck speed. She learns her husband, an unappealing professor with megalomania is cheating on her and moving in …
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