In a not-so-far-off future, humans own Simulants, human-adjacent robots to serve them. A married couple played by Jordana Brewster and Robbie Amel must confront their beliefs and identities in April Mullen's chilling Simulant. What She Said' Anne Brodie spoke with the filmmaker and …
Inuit Filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk’s Impressive Feature Debut Slash/Back a Tantalising Brew of Tradition, Modernity, and Monsters.
Inuit filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk's genre-busting Slash/Back is probably the sweetest film of its kind, a sci-fi variation on Little Women, set in remote Pangnirtung, Nunavut, or Pang. Preteens Maika (Tasiana Shirley), Jesse (Alexis Vincent-Wolfe), Leena (Chelsea Pruksy), and Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth) …
Plenty to Entertain and Soothe Your Soul This Week!
By Anne Brodie Scarborough from directors Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson and writer Catherine Hernandez is set in a low-income enclave in eastern Toronto. Its diverse population is well represented in three families whose children attend the same breakfast and literacy program run by a nurturing …
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TIFF Gems to Pocket, Michael Caine with Aubrey Plaza, and a Return to The Morning Show!
By Anne Brodie TIFF - Benediction, Terence Davies' biography of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden as a young man and soldier and Peter Capaldi as the embittered old man weaves the story of his life in classically style, elegantly and philosophically. Beginning with …