A wronged woman seeks vengeance in Violation. Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) is woman in a stagnant marriage with her partner Caleb (Obi Abili), who joins her sister Greta (Anna Maguire) and husband Dylan (Jesse LaVercombe) at a weekend cottage getaway. However, over the course of the weekend Miriam is the victim of an act of sexual […]
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The relentless surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr by J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Borough of Investigation is revisited in MLK/FBI. As Martin Luther King Jr rose to the forefront of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover began to suspect that the movement was some sort of communist plot, supported by the
A WAAF officer during World War II experiences her own nightmare at 20,000 feet in Shadow in the Cloud. Maude Garrett (Chloë Grace Moretz) is an officer of the women’s auxiliary air force during World War II, who is assigned to a B-17 Flying Fortress, carrying a strictly classified piece of cargo. While the highly
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A Syrian refugee is left in purgatory on a Scottish island in Limbo. Omar (Amir El-Masry) is a young Syrian man, who is left waiting around on an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, as he awaits a letter about whether or not he will be granted asylum. He is joined in this wait by Farhad
A few weeks ago, I lamented about how this will likely be the first time since 2003 I don’t see any films as part of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. However, now that the festival has officially gotten started, I have decided that it would not feel right to skip the festival entirely. So,
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It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that for the first time since I started going to the festival in 2003, I will not be seeing any films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. There are many reasons for this decision, ranging from the current COVID-19 pandemic to the
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