Peter Cameron – This film, no pun intended, is about alienation. We are blind to the processes behind the production of the things we use and need. We don’t know where our food or consumer goods come from.
The Outfit (2022)Directed Graham MooreStarring Zoey Deutch, Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, and Johnny Flynn It’s the 1950s, and we’re in Chicago. And you know what? I believed it—despite spending an…
Peter Cameron – Park Chan-wook’s Thirst is a vampire film that doesn’t suck. It doesn’t prey upon cliché. It doesn’t rely on hackneyed tropes. Thirst knows our expectations. And it flirts with them.
Tim Basaraba – In his second feature-length film, Yannis Veslemes seems to toss Weird Science (1985) and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) into a cinematic blender, sprinkle in an unnamed powdered substance, and top it off with an appreciation for seven-time Academy Award winner Rick Baker. The result? She Loved Blossoms More.
Matt Ashworth – As I made my way to the Royal Alberta Theatre, I once again encountered a sizable group of Ukrainian Canadians gathered outside TIFF headquarters. They held signs with slogans like “Russia is a terrorist state” and “TIFF sucks,” protesting a controversial Russian documentary, Russians at War, that was initially set to screen over the weekend but ended up being canceled.
