By Anne Brodie Thrilled to report that the impossible brilliance of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite is back on the big(gest) screen. Six years after sweeping the Oscars and the globe, it returns as an IMAX exclusive today. Bong Joon-Ho’s nearly perfect, nerve-rattling comedy thriller Parasite is a shock …
Sex, Death, Camping, Transformation, Exorcism, Apes, Penguins etc. Yep.
By Anne Brodie Toronto’s Revue Cinema presents Caligula: The Ultimate Cut today, one of the most provocative mass market films of the seventies. From Bob Guccione and directed officially by Tinto Brass it stars some of the UK’s most respected stage actors- Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Teresa …
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Faye, Impressive New Actor, Surreal Adventure and Celebrating Teen Films
By Anne Brodie Faye Dunaway’s singularity in the '60s and '70s as an actor and independent woman was important and we are reminded in the doc Faye. She was strong-willed, talented and made her demands clear, as the women's movement caught up to her. Dunaway’s power exploded asBonnie Parker in her …
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Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, The Late Great Tom Wolfe, Super Models, Carolyn Taylor’s Golden Dream, and Important Mark-Your-Calendar Dates!
By Anne Brodie Write director Darlene Naponse's Stellar gets under the skin in record time. It takes place inside a dilapidated bar in Sudbury near the nickel and copper mines formed by a meteorite hitting Earth 1.8 billion years ago. "Aadizookaan" from the sky it came. Mother Earth willfully …
Saturday UPDATE as TIFF Continues!
A radical feminist story is revealed in Widow Clicquot which took place in the early 1880s in the fertile Champagne region of France. Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, played with authority by Haley Bennett is married to François (Tom Sturridge) who owns a failing Champagne vineyard and suddenly dies …