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‘Black Mirror’ Season 3 Serves Up 2 Great Episodes At TIFF [TV Review]

September 14, 2016 9:19 am

Browsing the TV section of Netflix can be an anxiety inducing exercise. While the upside in the new Golden Age Of Television has some of the best programming the medium has ever seen, the downside has been the ...

‘Deepwater Horizon’ With Mark Wahlberg Is Stellar Filmmaking Except When It Isn’t [TIFF Review]

Gregory Ellwood

September 14, 2016 5:13 am

Awards Campaign, Reviews

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TORONTO – When the mobile offshore drilling rig the Deepwater Horizon exploded into flames on April 20, 2010 it resulted in the loss of 11 lives and the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Five years later, BP, ...

Catherine Keener Stars In Thoughtful Drama ‘Unless’ [TIFF Review]

Kimber Myers

September 13, 2016 3:05 pm

Festivals, Reviews

A mystery lies at the shattered core of “Unless,” but it’s not your standard whodunit. Instead, the drama centers on what has caused a college student who argues with her professor over “Madame Bovary” to chang...

Syrian Civil War Doc ‘The War Show’ Is An Uneven But Powerful Glimpse Inside A Revolutionary Country [TIFF Review]

Gary Garrison

September 13, 2016 1:25 pm

Reviews

In 2011, in the early days of the Syrian revolution — back when it was still a series of protests and not yet a full on revolution — radio DJ Obaidah Zytoon and her rag-tag band of friends took to the streets w...

‘Mr. Robot’ Rami Malek Drives Himself Crazy In Surreal ‘Buster’s Mal Heart’ [TIFF Review]

Kevin Jagernauth

September 13, 2016 10:15 am

Reviews

While conspiracy theories, phone sex lines, and television psychics might not seem immediately connected, they offer two important things for those who feel their life is slipping out of their grasp: answers an...

Lone Scherfig’s ‘Their Finest’ Starring Gemma Arterton & Bill Nighy Is A Charming Feminist Love Letter To Filmmaking [TIFF Review]

Noel Murray

September 13, 2016 9:00 am

Reviews

The charming, rousing WWII romance “Their Finest” is a film that openly stumps for two causes: the value of women in the workplace, and the power of cinema to tell stories that people need to hear. Set in Londo...

Werner Herzog’s ‘Salt and Fire’ Starring Michael Shannon Is Flawed But Distinctive [TIFF Review]

Noel Murray

September 12, 2016 6:25 pm

Reviews

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During the 1970s heyday of the German New Wave, Werner Herzog’s earthy adventure films and dramas were hailed for their realism, as the director aimed to recreate onscreen the extreme conditions that his charac...

Undercooked Noir ‘City Of Tiny Lights’ Starring Riz Ahmed Fails To Thrill [TIFF Review]

Kevin Jagernauth

September 12, 2016 4:25 pm

Reviews

Across eight episodes this summer, Steve Zaillian and Richard Price showed there was lots of new life to be found in the crime procedural with “The Night Of.” Going deep into life behind bars and finding new pe...

Exclusive: Anne Hathaway & Jason Sudeikis Talk The Kaiju Monsters Of ‘Colossal’

Jordan Ruimy

September 12, 2016 12:40 pm

Interviews

TORONTO - It's not hard to see why having Anne Hathaway and the Kaiju genre might not sound right in the same sentence. Hathaway, a pristine, highly talented, Oscar nominated actress has never really delved in ...

Blake Lively Is Blind In ‘All I See Is You’ In Marc Forster’s Thriller [TIFF Review]

Kenji Fujishima

September 12, 2016 11:15 am

News

For roughly an hour, “All I See Is You” offers some mild but genuine intrigue as a stylistic exercise. To try to convey the way Gina (Blake Lively), a blind woman who lost her sight in a car accident during her...

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