Ryan Destiny Throws Like A Champ In Another Underdog Boxing Tale [TIFF]

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Ryan Destiny Throws Like A Champ In Another Underdog Boxing Tale [TIFF]

TORONTO – Underdog sports stories are a dime a dozen. Scrappy athlete – often from a disenfranchised background – makes it to the big game, title match, or final race to emerge a heroic champion. And, truth be told, these…

Before They Joined Us Featured, Reviews Film Threat

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Writer-director Arshile Egoyan has perfectly captured a turning point in life for two young Armenian girls from Lebanon in his short film Before They Joined Us. Taline (Lorie Berberian) and her younger sister Garine (Ava…

A Slow Start Is Elevated by the Most Memorable Villains Yet

Season 1 of Tulsa King, one of Taylor Sheridan's projects outside the Yellowstone-verse, was a surprise. When the series first premiered, it wasn't clear what tone could be expected from the gangster-in-a-small-town premise. That tagline could suggest a serious crime…

Creative Sci-Fi Romance Cautions Us About Dreams While Being Unbelievable

If an experimental drug existed that would enable you to create lucid dreams, where you could control anyone and everything, would you take it? Writer-director Nacho Vigalondo poses this question to a grieving man who recently lost his girlfriend in…

Fails To Capture The Game’s Spirit

Eli Roth’s Borderlands, a science fiction action-comedy adapted from the popular video game series, arrives with high expectations, given its star-studded cast and the rich world of Pandora that the games have established. Unfortunately, the film stumbles in its attempt…

‘Pachinko’ Season 2 Episode 4 Recap

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Pachinko Season 2 Episode 4. Apple TV+'s Pachinko has always done a fantastic job intertwining the two alternating storylines. In its latest season, Sunja (played in her younger years by Minha Kim…

Julie Delpy’s Immigration Dramedy Is Well-Meaning, But Mild & Slight [TIFF]

Filmmakers, like humans, mellow with age; at least, that’s the refrain we usually hear. But this adage is arguably true in the case of filmmaker Julie Delpy, now 54. Her social and dark commentaries always had some terrific bite to…

Narco Shark Featured, Reviews Film Threat

The sheer lunacy of writer-director Gerardo Preciado’s Narco Shark guarantees that cult midnight screenings or private viewings at home in whatever state of awareness you choose are not obsolete. It’s fun because the picture showcases a love for genre cliches and the…

‘Uglies’ Review – Netflix’s YA Adaptation Is Hideous Inside and Out

Back in 2012, when this writer was 15, every few months my friends and I would run to the theater for the cinematic event of the most recent adaptation of a bestselling YA novel. Whether it was a love triangle…

I Loved To Hate Ana De Armas In Ron Howard’s Completely Unhinged Thriller

Eden (2024)gives us an unhinged Ana de Armas, and for that I am forever grateful. The actress is delectably vicious and simultaneously alluring. It’s easy to hate her, and boy does Eden make us hate her. Directed by Ron Howard…

Afraid Review: Blumhouse’s Bad Streak Continues

Chris Weitz‘s Afraid aims to be a chilling exploration of technology’s invasive potential, but it ultimately falls flat, resulting in a lackluster film that fails to deliver on its sci-fi horror promises. With a star-studded cast including John Cho, Katherine…

‘Riff Raff’ Review – Jennifer Coolidge Leads an Excellent Ensemble in Pitch-Black Comedy

There’s nothing quite as fun as a biting black comedy, and the best ones will have you laughing out loud one minute, and cringing in your seat the next. Riff Raff is one such story, taking a messy, blended family…

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