Category: Film Festivals
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review
Rian Johnson set himself a gargantuan task when he decided to take on a sequel to the wildly successful Knives Out. After all, how could anyone capture that special kind of old-school movie magic back-to-back? It sounded virtually impossible and this critic was admittedly quite skeptical. More fool me. Johnson turns the volume up to […]
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Scarborough Review: The Kids Are Alright
It’s hard to put into words the emotions that Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s Scarborough elicits. This intimate look into the lives of three young Toronto kids (and their low-income, marginalized families) runs the gamut from joy in the smallest of victories to rage at the failures of people and systems that turn a blind eye or discriminate. Only a few minutes into its runtime and it’s easy to see how this small but powerful Canadian film beat out some of Hollywood’s best to secure the first runner-up spot for the TIFF People’s Choice Award this past September.
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Director Will Sharpe on The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
I had a chance to sit down with the director for an in-depth chat before his film’s Canadian premiere this past September. Sharpe talked about his fascination with the lesser-known Wain, the challenges of bringing the artist’s story to the big screen, and how one goes about directing Cumberbatch and cats. Lots and lots of cats.
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TIFF 2021: A Playlist of Memorable Soundtrack Moments
Each year after the festival wraps, we here at That Shelf take a look back at the soundtrack songs that stuck with us long after the film’s credits rolled. So after the awards have been announced and the final film screened, we pull together a playlist to remind us of another TIFF come and gone. This year we saw key tunes from musician bios like Jagged and Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, a host of ’80s classics (“Fame”, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”), the dance track from Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe’s joyful Belfast dance scene (“Everlasting Love”), and much, much more.
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Tom Hiddleston and Christina Hendricks set sail in The Pirate Fairy
Tom Hiddleston is no stranger to the magical lure of Disney. Leaving aside the 33-year old’s engrossing, scene-stealing role as Loki in the studio’s popular Marvel franchise, the British thesp also happened to grow up on the films just like the rest of us. A talented mimic from a very young age, the actor cites […]
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From RDJ to Cumberbatch, the stars are headed to TIFF 2014
Film fanatics and star gazers, your time is now. Well…almost now. More precisely, your time WILL be September 4 – 14. That’s when the A-list glitterati, with their films in tow, descend on downtown Hogtown as they flock to the Toronto International Film Festival. As has become the norm, the list of TIFF-bound talent is […]
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TIFF 2014: The definitive, 14-track playlist
As the Toronto International Film Fest draws to a close once more, one of the final films to debut comes to the Ryerson courtesy of filmmaker Adam Wingard. Ring a bell? He was the creative genius behind the fab fright flick You’re Next from 2011. His follow-up, The Guest, wraps up the Midnight Madness programme Saturday […]
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Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson are wannabe jewel thieves in The Love Punch
Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson are divorcees and wannabe jewel thieves in the first trailer for the comedy caper The Love Punch. The former 007 and Thompson play a divorced couple who come up with a scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them by a French financier. The pair recruits their bumbling neighbours […]
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Tom Hiddleston and Anton Yelchin on love, music and Swinton in Only Lovers Left Alive
Move over Bella and Edward, there’s a new pair of undead lovers in town. In Jim Jarmusch‘s Only Lovers Left Alive, audiences are introduced to Adam and Eve, two centuries-old vampires who live in very different ways in different cities – he is a reclusive and depressed musician in Detroit, she a well-read bohemian living […]
Emma Badame, Portfolio 