Focusing on Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges), a former CIA operative forced out of hiding when an old adversary comes looking for him for revenge, “The Old...
Whenever this day arrives, I think of how popular culture usually depicts momentous days in history as ones where ordinary life stands still, and the way...
Last year, it felt like there was an abundance of music documentaries at TIFF for an obvious reason: musicians aren’t actors or directors. The strikes so...
TIFF’s Platform Films section holds a special place in my heart; even though I never know what kind of movie I’ll get, at the very least,...
Two of the three films in this dispatch were inspired by true events, while another reflects the truly dire situation many women face in terms of...
Before anything else, there was that voice. Rich, regal, majestic, magnificent, and instantly recognizable—it seemed to come from a part of Heaven reserved solely for true...
Adapting Goethe’s sturm-und-drang classic The Sorrows of Young Werther into a buoyant, bright Canadian rom-com feels like a horrendously awful idea on paper. And, for the...
Shailene Woodley is set to star in a biopic of Janis Joplin, which will receive $2.5 million in funding from the California Film Commission. Numerous attempts...
Someone once said, “Mike Leigh doesn’t make bad movies.” I was repeating it in the days leading to the premiere of his latest at TIFF, and...
Netflix is embroiled in a legal dispute with Asian News International (ANI) over the streaming giant’s hit series “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack.” The drama, directed...
