Formulaic may not be the best way to describe Emilia Pérez. It’s a deeply unpredictable cocktail of social commentary, crime drama, and musical. It follows a Mexican crime boss who dreams of escaping the cartel and his assigned gender – but…
Luther: Never Too Much The Hot Docs Festival wrapped up on May 5 and featured 168 documentaries from 64 countries with 83 world and international premieres. The topics of these documentaries were sorted under the umbrellas of Culture and Creativity,…
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story The Hot Docs Festival is taking place in Toronto from April 25 to May 5 and features 168 documentaries from 64 countries with 83 world and international premieres. The topics of these documentaries…
Hollywood action icon Sylvester Stallone made an appearance at the Toronto Film Festival to coincide with his Netflix career-spanning documentary Sly, from director Thom Zimny, which is set to close the festival. Since it is a streaming title, the film…
He looks worn down. Something is weighing on him. A cold case he’s been assigned is 20 years old. And now here he is, in the middle of the Australian outback, an arid landscape of opal mines and an unsolved…
Leave it to 50-year-old Harmony Korine to bring the most experimental and derided film to TIFF. AGGRO DR1FT is unintelligible, irritating, deliberately one note and careless of the ways in which people watch movies. Yes, pushing the envelope is part…
As Hollywood continues its war on the future of cinema, cult American filmmaker Harmony Korine descended upon TIFF with something completely different. Included as part of the festival’s popular Midnight Madness programming, the director was accompanied by a crew of…
Boy Kills World is an arcade game for the multiplex screens, a bruising orgy of violence that goes for some of the same beat-em-up high octane found in today’s superhero franchises. Bloodier for sure – but not much better. Inspired…
Taika Waititi returned to TIFF over the weekend with his underdog soccer story entitled Next Goal Wins. Inspired by the true story of the American Samoa soccer team, it specifically focuses on the inspiring tale of how the team lost…
This interview first ran in October of 2021. Bruce LaBruce may very well be Canada’s last punk artist. An iconoclastic filmmaker, photographer, and writer, he just can’t stop creating. Defiantly sexual, and often political, LaBruce’s filmography has found longstanding acclaim…