TIFF Journal: ‘Rats’
Morgan Spurlock has made quite a few notable stunt documentaries over his career, but none have come close to capturing attention or imagination quite like ‘Super Size Me’. However, his latest confection, ‘Rats...
Morgan Spurlock has made quite a few notable stunt documentaries over his career, but none have come close to capturing attention or imagination quite like ‘Super Size Me’. However, his latest confection, ‘Rats...
Here’s something that no one saw coming: a crossover battle royale between two of the stringy-haired stars of the J-horror movement. That’s right, the millennial trend of slow-burn Japanese horror is on its last legs a...
There are few filmmakers alive who make films so distinctly their own as Errol Morris. He may be best known for his groundbreaking true crime documentary ‘The Thin Blue Line’ or his political projects such as ‘Th...
Yes, another zombie movie. They keep making these. Thankfully, ‘The Girl with All the Gifts’ is one of the good ones. Even though most of the movie feels incredibly familiar, it has a handful of interesting new ideas c...
Ever wondered what it would look like if a French art house specialist decided to make a haunted house picture with the star of ‘Twilight’? Well, now you’ll kind of know. Following their acclaimed ‘Clouds o...
After dipping out of his usual routine for one unexpected horror picture (‘The Skin I Live In’) and a little absurd comedy (‘I’m So Excited’), the colorful Spanish formalist Pedro Almodóvar returns to...
Hey, you know those movies about boxers whose lives are just as tumultuous outside the ring as they are within? ‘The Bleeder’ is one of those. It’s even based on a true story to theoretically maximize the hanky-s...
While in the midst of delivering another goofball space opera for Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, James Gunn has secretly been crafting a horror comedy that’s truer to his offbeat origins. ‘The Belko Experiment̵...
‘Denial’ is one of those well-meaning movies about an important subject that isn’t particularly good, but tends to get a free pass in awards season thanks to sincerity and presenting a positive social message. Th...
After an award-winning premiere at Cannes, writer/director Julia Ducournau’s debut feature ‘Raw’ apparently made a few audience members faint at the TIFF Midnight Madness screening. (At least, that’s the le...
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...