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The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal – TIFF 2024

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The nearly four-decade long career of The Tragically Hip is told in an all-emcompassing docuseries in The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal. The Tragically Hip consisting of Gord Downie, Rob Baker, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair were five alumni of KCVI high school in Kingston, Ontario. Signed to MCA records in the late-1980s, […]

The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal – TIFF 2024

Saltburn

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An Oxford University student spends the summer with his classmate’s eccentric upper-class family in Saltburn. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) is a scholarship student at Oxford University in the mid-2000s. Oliver befriends Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), a popular student, who takes sympathy over Oliver’s stories of his troubled home life. In the summer of 2007, Felix

Saltburn

TIFF 2023 Review Mr. Dressup The Magic of Make-Believe

Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe – TIFF 2023

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The life and career of Ernie “Mr. Dressup” Combs are revisited in Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe. Born in Maine, Ernie Combs moved to Toronto in 1962 to work with Fred Rogers on the original CBC version of MisteRogers. After Rogers returned to the United States, CBC built a new show around Ernie Combs,

Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe – TIFF 2023

Nanny – TIFF 2022

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A Senegalese caregiver has water-bound nightmares involving her child in Nanny. Aisha (Anna Diop) is a recent immigrant from Senegal who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy New York couple, Amy (Michelle Monaghan) and Adam (Morgan Spector). Taking care of the couple’s young daughter Rose (Rose Decker), Aisha hopes to earn enough

Nanny – TIFF 2022

Deep Water

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A unhappily married man becomes a suspect in the disappearances of his promiscuous wife’s lovers in Deep Water. Vic (Ben Affleck) and Melinda (Ana de Armas) are a unhappily married couple, who are avoiding divorce with an arrangement that allows Melinda to see various lovers on the side. This results in a seething jealously in

Deep Water

The Tender Bar

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An aspiring writer grows up taking advice from his bartender uncle in The Tender Bar. As a kid, JR (Daniel Ranieri) accompanied his single mom (Lily Rabe) to live at the home of his Grandpa (Christopher Lloyd) on Long Island. It is there JR is taken under the wing of his Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck),

The Tender Bar

Being the Ricardos

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Drama develops on the set of the sitcom I Love Lucy in Being the Ricardos. Starring the real-life married couple of Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem), the sitcom I Love Lucy became a huge hit when it began airing in the early 1950s. However, while in the middle of taping the

Being the Ricardos

Bingo Hell

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As part of our October HorrorFest, we will be posting new reviews of relatively recent horror films during the month of October A small community’s bingo hall gets taken over by a sinister force in Bingo Hell. Oak Springs is a small community undergoing gentrification, which annoys lifelong resident Lupita (Adriana Barraza), who leads a group of

Bingo Hell

The Tomorrow War

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People from today are sent to fight an alien threat three decades in the future in The Tomorrow War. In December of 2022, the world is shocked when soldiers from the year 2051 arrive asking for help to fight back an alien threat known as Whitespikes, which have almost completely decimated humanity. For Green Beret turned

The Tomorrow War

Coming 2 America

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Prince Akeem of Zamunda returns to America after discovering he has a son in Coming 2 America. Three decades after travelling to America and meeting the love of his life Lisa (Shari Headley), Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) is summoned to the deathbed of his father King Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones), who reveals a secret kept

Coming 2 America