Promising Young Woman | Movie Review

Promising Young woman is a movie that has so much to say and knows exactly how to say it. The film is the feature directorial debut for Emerald Fennell, also an esteemed writer of Killing Eve season 2 and a star on The Crown. The story follows Cassie (played by Carey Mulligan) whose best friend …

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Wonder Woman 1984 | Movie Review

The long-awaited sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman has finally arrived and has caused quite a stir among movie lovers online. Some fans loved it while others really disliked it. Wonder Woman 1984 has us reunited with the wonderful Diana Prince in the 80s while she’s going through a bit of a rough patch. She befriends …

Another Round | Movie Review | TIFF20

Another Round is an in-depth look at four teachers' need to introduce some excitement and happiness into their mundane and ritualistic life. The 2020 Danish-Swedish drama film, directed by Thomas Vinterberg, star Mads Mikkelsen who portrays a real and authentic version of a man who is slowly seeping into a depressive rut of a life. …

I Care A Lot | Movie Review | TIFF20

I Care a Lot, directed by J Blakeson is a film that is hard to describe. Essentially, the story focuses on Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) who is a legal conservator that has made her living defrauding elderly clients by having them committed to long-term care facilities. When her latest victim, Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest) turns …

Nomadland | Movie Review | TIFF20

Chloé Zhao stuns with her 2020 film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand. The newly crowned Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival is based on a novel of the same name written by Jessica Bruder and follows the nomadic life of Fern, a recently widowed woman from a small town in rural Nevada. After the …

Penguin Bloom | Movie Review | TIFF20

Penguin Bloom, directed by Glendyn Ivin, is inspired by the true story of Sam Bloom (played by Naomi Watts) who goes through a tragic accident while on vacation with her husband and three kids in Thailand. As a result of the accident, she is paralyzed from the waist down and struggles to come to terms …

One Night in Miami | Movie Review | TIFF20

Regina King puts out a stunning drama as her directorial debut that will have movie lovers invested in the film's success. One Night in Miami imagines a 1960s in which some of the most famous black Americans of that era are close friends. What if Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown were …

Marriage Story | Movie Review | TIFF’19

Marriage Story is a Noah Baumbach film starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson playing Charlie and Nicole, a couple that is at the end of their marriage and about to start finalizing their divorce. I can very confidently say that no movie has ever had a lasting effect on me the way that Marriage Story …

Aladdin | Review

Premiere Date: May 24th Live-action remakes of classic Disney movies have been all the craze lately and show no sign of stopping. The latest of these is the adaption of the 1992 Disney classic; Aladdin. The 2019 version of the cartoon stars Will Smith as the Genie, Naomi Scott as Princesse Jasmine and Mena Massoud …