TIFF 2024 opened not with a glamorous party, but with my tears shed on the floor of a condo showroom, a stark contrast to the festival’s usual opulent reputation. Here, surrounded by the remains of what was once the most…
When you’ve got a movie starring Jennifer Coolidge, Bill Murray, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, and Pete Davidson, you expect a bit more than a slow burning film that ultimately offers little reward for the viewer’s patience. The ensemble delivers as…
Toronto International Film Festival may have ended in the fall but now is the perfect time to add these films to your list. We’ve highlighted below our most addicting picks for films you won’t want to miss. They’re some of…
There is nothing more captivating than Pamela Anderson’s standout performance in The Last Showgirl. Through the lens of Gia Coppola atmospheric ode to aging femininity in the City of Lights, Anderson delivers a refreshingly raw and heartfelt portrayal of Shelley, a…
Marie Nicola aka Karmacake will be covering the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for ADDICTED Magazine. Her unique perspective as a trend forecaster and pop culture historian will bring a fresh and insightful lens to coverage of this landmark event. …
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…
Director Ava DuVernay’s newest movie Origin made its Atlantic crossing from the Venice Film Festival to TIFF for its North American premiere earlier this week. Based on a adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the Long…
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…
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…