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Emma Thompson, turning in what is easily one of her richest and most complex performances, stars as P.L. Travers, the seriously sour, exceedingly stubborn and altogether unpleasant British author who, for more than two decades, refused to sign over the rights to her book, Mary Poppins, to Walt Disney...
Expensive, explosive and effects-driven, The Day the Earth Stood Still has all the trademarks of a high-concept summer release… which is to say it’s not particularly interested in telling a great story or featuring compelling performances, but it sure does want to go big or go home. Based on...
Set in the not-too-distant future, the film stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a one-time boxer, who’s traded in his gloves for a remote in order to fight it out in robot bouts. That is, the robots – not their human controllers – hop into the ring to duke...
Told with an unflinching eye by director Steve McQueen (Shame, Hunger), the story centers on Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor, in a riveting performance that has Best Actor written all over it), an educated, free-born black man living in New York in the 1840s. He’s got a home, and a...
The challenge of balancing the past, present and future underscores this story about love – love between family members, between friends, and between the film’s amiable hero, Tim (Domnhall Gleeson), and Mary (Rachel McAdams), the charmingly insecure American for whom he falls head over heels. Tim is a goofy...
Directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), written by Emmy Award-winner Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) and based on Ben Mezrich’s book, The Accidental Billionaires, this is a rich, surprisingly suspenseful drama that, simultaneously, should be taken with a teensy grain of salt. The...
Greasy, sweaty, drunk and seeming like he’d probably reek of whiskey, cigarettes and B.O., Bad Blake (Bridges) is a once-lauded country-music star who’s so far down on his luck that hitting bottom might be considered a step up. Barely able to get through a set, he unenthusiastically plays hole-in-the-wall...
Set in North London, the movie – which the press materials refer to as a “rom zom com” (romantic zombie comedy) – centers on hapless twentysomething Shaun (Simon Pegg, who co-wrote the film’s screenplay with director Edgar Wright). Shaun’s life isn’t exactly where he’d like it to be. He’s...
Today was my first multi-screening day at the festival, and I’m pleased to report I made it through unscathed. Annoyed, frustrated, tired and disappointed, sure, but unscathed. Much to my dismay, the chaos at the Scotiabank Theatre was apparently not limited to the busy weekend days. My 11am screening...
OMG. What the hell is going on at the Scotiabank Theatre this TIFF?! It’s a complete MADHOUSE. Wall-to-wall people, rampant disorganization, not nearly enough volunteers, lineups all over the damn place, broken escalators, delayed screenings and near impossibility getting in or out of the venue with your blood pressure...
To say that I’m happy to be taking a week off to attend TIFF 2013 would be an understatement. In addition to my annual festival-going excitement, this year’s fest means a week off from a very taxing work life. So, I’m more than a little elated for the break....
Set in a world of voiceover artists jockeying for the next big gig, Bell’s film follows her character, Carol, who’s making ends meet (barely) as a vocal coach but who, as the daughter of an industry legend (Fred Melamed), longs to be taken as seriously as her male peers....
