The career or provacative Irish author Edna O’Brien is told in Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story. Through her books such as The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and A Pagan Place, Edna O’Brien’s writing was often considered obsene or indecent. Edna also shared a tumultuous marriage to the older writer Ernest Gébler, who […]
Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story – TIFF 2024
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A popular spy novelist discovers that her new novel might not exactly be fiction in Argylle. Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the author of a successful series of spy novels about Agent Argylle (Henry Cavill) and his partners Wyatt (John Cena) and Keira (Ariana DeBose). Elly suffers from writer’s block coming up with the
A German author is indicted for the death of her husband in Anatomy of a Fall. Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) is a successful German-born novelist living with her husband Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis) and their visually impaired son Daniel (Milo Machado Graner) at an isolated chalet in the French Alps. One day, Daniel comes home
Anatomy of a Fall
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Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya in a biopic about author Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat. Flannery O’Connor (Maya Hawke) is a deeply Catholic aspiring writer from New York of the 1950s. While travelling to Kentucky to visit her mother Regina (Laura Linney), Flannery is diagnosed with Lupus, a condition that previously took the life of her
Wildcat – TIFF 2023
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Two Korean childhood sweethearts are reunited after more than two decades apart in Past Lives. As children, Na Young (Moon Seung-ah) and Hae Sung (Seung Min Yim) are inseparable, before Na Young’s family decides to immigrate from South Korea to Toronto. 12 years passed and the now re-named Nora (Seung Min Yim) is working as
One of the special events of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival was a screening of a “Surprise New Film” by director Steven Soderbergh. As many predicted beforehand, this “new” film ended up being a re-edited version of Soderbergh’s 1991 sophomore film Kafka, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and is a film
Mr. Kneff (30th Anniversary Kafka Re-edit)
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UPDATE: Since I originally wrote this review, it has come to my attention that director Morgan Neville utilized A.I. technology to recreate Anthony Bourdain‘s voice for the film’s narration. This, of course, raises some serious ethical concerns and it does recontextualize the documentary somewhat. However, my original thoughts on the film remain unedited below. The
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
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Two pairs of mothers and daughters learn to cope with one another following a death in The Rest of Us. Cami (Heather Graham) and her teenage daughter Aster (Sophie Nélisse) are shocked to learn that Cami’s ex-husband has suddenly passed away following a heart attack. Soon afterwards, Cami finds out that her ex’s new wife
Friends of a writer suffering from depression stage an intervention in the form of a surprise birthday gathering in Hazy Little Thing. Billie (Erin Margurite Carter) is the author of a semi-autobiographical novel, who has been suffering from writer’s block and depression alone at her large house. After making a troublesome social media post suggesting a
Hazy Little Thing
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Guillermo del Toro produces a film adaptation of the popular book series of young adult horror stories in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Stella Nicholls (Zoe Margaret Colletti) is a teenage girl living with her father Roy (Dean Norris) in the small town of Mill Valley. Her only friends are Auggie Hilderbrandt (Gabriel
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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