TIFF Journal: ‘The Age of Shadows’
A mixture of searing historical drama and rip-roaring action adventure, ‘The Age of Shadows’ from director Kim Jee-woon (‘A Tale of Two Sisters’, ‘I Saw the Devil’) bursts off the screen with en...
A mixture of searing historical drama and rip-roaring action adventure, ‘The Age of Shadows’ from director Kim Jee-woon (‘A Tale of Two Sisters’, ‘I Saw the Devil’) bursts off the screen with en...
Thomas Vinterberg has never gotten the same level of international success or respect as his Dogme 95 co-founder Lars von Trier, which is a shame. Granted, he’s not a genius on the level of von Trier (who is?) but the filmma...
Crime movies can be tough. There have been so many that sometimes it feels like there are no themes left to explore. Music video director Adam Smith’s feature debut ‘Trespass Against Us’ attempts something new by...
Walter Hill was one of the great pioneers of the American action movie in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Of course, as Hollywood tends to do, the master was spit out of the mainstream once his style of film went out of fashi...
‘Loving’ is one of those important historical dramas about groundbreaking folks who changed America. It’s also an incredibly intimate character study of two simple people uncertain of why their pure love could ca...
‘American Honey’ is a tricky movie because most of its greatest strengths double down as its biggest weaknesses. The American debut from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (‘Fish Tank‘) is a rambling road odys...
Even after his patented mockumentary style was co-opted by countless TV shows, there’s still only one Christopher Guest. His latest comedy, ‘Mascots’, serves up almost everything you could want from one of his hy...
‘The Handmaiden’ is a naughty film made by a naughty boy. It’s also a pretty damn clever, beautifully crafted and amusingly nasty one. As he proved in movies like ‘Oldboy’ and ‘Lady Vengeance...
It takes a lot of guts for a movie star to transition into directing. Although landing that debut gig will likely be far easier than it would be for anyone lacking experience, the pressure is high and folks will be rooting for fai...
Denis Villeneuve continues his transition from Canadian indies to sprawling Hollywood fables that retain his masterful style and personal touch. After last year’s searing drug war thriller ‘Sicario’, the director...
Xavier Dolan is a curious case. He burst onto the international filmmaking scene at 20 and was hailed as an impressive original voice while most folks in his generation were still figuring out if they even liked movies. Since then...
For years, Ben Wheatley (‘Kill List’, ‘High-Rise’) has established himself as one of the best genre filmmakers on the planet. He’s dabbled in crime, horror, comedy, and even more esoteric art house fa...