Rustic Oracle – Review
An 8-year-old Mohawk girl tries to understand her older sister’s sudden disappearance in Rustic Oracle. Ivy (Lake Delisle) is an 8-year-old girl in a small Mohawk community, who has a close relationship with her teenage […]
MLK/FBI – TIFF 2020
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 […]
Shadow in the Cloud – TIFF 2020
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 […]
Limbo – TIFF 2020
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 […]
The New Mutants – Review
Five young mutants encounter their greatest fears in an isolated hospital in The New Mutants. Danielle Moonstar (Blu Hunt) is a 16-year old Cheyenne woman, who wakes up in a hospital for new mutants run […]
A Taste of TIFF 2020
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 […]
Bill & Ted Face the Music – Review
The Wyld Stallyns go on one final time-traveling adventure in Bill & Ted Face the Music. It has been more than three decades since Bill S. Preston, Esq (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu […]
Wrapping Up a Virtual Fantasia 2020
Like many film festivals in 2020, Fantasia decided to go virtual this year. I would say that they were successful in this regard with its VOD and “live” screenings via the Shift72 powered Festival Scope […]
For the Sake of Vicious – Fantasia 2020
A nurse and a vengeful father try to survive a Halloween night home invasion in For the Sake of Vicious. Romina (Lora Burke) is a single mother and nurse, who returns home one Halloween night […]
Minor Premise – Fantasia 2020
A scientist ends up with his consciousness split into separate personalities in Minor Premise. Ethan (Sathya Sridharan) is a neuroscientist, who is under immense pressure by Malcolm (Dana Ashbrook) to complete the work of Ethan’s […]
