“Death Of The Party” is a film that revolves around a girl named Sloane who, after a night of onesies, tequila, and poker ends up finding her brother Tyler’s dead body the next day – as well as his...
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A whimsical exploration of a child’s identity takes place in “A Typical Fairytale”.
A Typical Fairytale is a film that focuses on the exploration of gulfs between parent and child, taking the form of couples Sherry and Larry, whose storybook life ends with a child named Sara. Thro...
Preview: “Grandma’s 80th Surprise” – how a mixed-race relationship leads to familial problems
Grandma’s 80th Surprise is a film that details the life of a young Chinese man named Curtis, who recently has fallen in love with a mixed-race woman named Ella. However, things begin to beco...
Terminator: Dark Fate saves the future with its astounding cast and action sequences
Tim Miller, best known for directing Deadpool, has crafted Terminator: Dark Fate into a sci-fi action movie that surpasses its predecessor, Terminator: Genisys, with superb action sequences and a m...
VIFF 2019: In the Tall Grass
Who better to pull off a horror movie set entirely in some tall grass than Vincenzo Natali, whose breakout hit Cube was set entirely in a bunch of cubes? Natali’s turned out a series of mostly unde...
VIFF 2019: Hard-Core
Hard-Core isn’t the sort of movie to make a big splash in North America. It’s a low-budget manga adaptation with an unhurried plot progression and the sort of brazen overall weirdness that means wh...
VIFF 2019: Melancholic
Melancholic is your average romantic-comedy action-thriller crime-drama satire. It’s like Parasite on a microbudget. It’s a movie that’ll surprise you even if you see it with this description in mi...
VIFF 2019: Children of the Sea
Children of the Sea is the kind of kid’s movie that you can feel good about showing to kids. It’s idealistic, fantastical, challenging, and serious-minded—full to the brim with the risks and rough ...
VIFF 2019: Vanishing Days
I didn’t enjoy watching Vanishing Days all that much. That’s too broad and too subjective to be of help to you, dear reader. Maybe, though, the film will be too. Vanishing Days is one of those slow...
VIFF 2019: Wild Sparrow
Wild Sparrow opens with a set of images so obvious you’ll be certain you know where it’s going. You won’t be wrong, but I’m guessing you’ll still be surprised. It’s a quiet, melancholy little movie...
VIFF 2019: Parasite
From Memories of Murder to The Host to Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho has built up a small store of images in my brain. A monster approaching up the shoreline at full tilt. The recipe for a food. That s...
VIFF 2019: Guest of Honour
Your familiarity with Atom Egoyan may be a good indicator for your enjoyment of Guest of Honour. Maybe you’ve been waiting two decades for him to match the career highs of Exotica and The Sweet Her...
