When you’re young, very young, the world is bright and bold, a riot of colour and creatures and moments tumbling one to the next. Boy and the World, a newly released animated … Continue reading Beautifully Drawn Boy: The Thrilling, Wrenching Journey of Boy and the World
If you want to start your year off right with one of the bleakest films ever made, then look no further than the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s New Year’s Day screening … Continue reading Stop Motion Animation Retrospective – Tetsuo: The Iron Man
What was your first wuxia film? Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)? Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2003), or House of Flying Daggers (2004)? Maybe an old classic, like the Shaw Brothers’ The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)? With its balletic, often on … Continue reading To Kill or Not to Kill? Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin
Film is a fragile medium. It’s easy to forget in this digital age that so much of our cinematic history is committed to old-fashioned celluloid, the plastic spools wound on … Continue reading 31 Days of Horror: Interview With TIFF’s Jesse Wente About The Mask
The word on This Changes Everything, the latest documentary film from the socially charged husband and wife team Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, is starting to spread. After debuting this … Continue reading Interview with This Changes Everything’s Co-Producer, Katie McKenna
It’s been a long, slow evolution. But like most change, when the moment hits, it hits with force. And it’s everywhere. Exhibit A: the badass female action hero. The road from … Continue reading Beyond Badass: Female Action Heroes
You tend to lose people in waves. The vagary of statistics, an actuarial table fulfilling its dull prophecy, the phenomenon is disconcerting all the same. Someone close to you dies, and … Continue reading TIFF 2015: Heart of a Dog
Parents can mess you up. Not always. They often don’t mean to. But just like you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs, you can’t make a person without passing … Continue reading TIFF 2015: The Family Fang and Beasts of No Nation
There has to be a spot on the colour wheel for psychopath blue. You know the shade. The limpid aquamarine eyes that freeze your blood the second you see them. … Continue reading TIFF 2015: Black Mass
Being a teenager is so freaking crazy. Your body’s unrecognizable, your hormones go wild and you’ve got these outsize adult feelings coursing through a brain that feels like it’s been hotwired, … Continue reading TIFF 2015: Sleeping Giant
Baubles and energy. That’s what our modern lives revolve around. Our beautiful distractions and the juice that makes them go. Technology has revolutionized our lives a thousand times over in … Continue reading TIFF 2015: This Changes Everything
Space wants to kill you. Very badly. All those sci-fi movies with the aliens and the monsters and the demons from other dimensions, they’re fine, hell, some of them are … Continue reading TIFF 2015: The Martian
