Photos by: Myles Herod – Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro attended “The Room Next Door” premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 7th). Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore star in this visually exquisite and intimate adaptation of What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez, Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Barry Keoghan, and Nykiya Adams attended the “Bird” premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 7th). Andrea Arnold returns to the Festival with a story about a distracted father (Barry Keoghan) and his lonely and imaginative 12-year-old daughter, Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who must seek attention (and … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Ron Howard, Jude Law, Ana de Armas, and Sydney Sweeney attended the “Eden” premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 7th). Oscar-winning director Ron Howard’s scintillating historical thriller stars Jude Law and Vanessa Kirby as high-minded Europeans who seek a new life on a previously uninhabited … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Jennifer Lopez, Matt Damon, Bobby Cannavale, and Don Cheadle attended the “Unstoppable” premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 6th). Moonlight’s Jharrel Jerome gives another outstanding performance amid a star-studded cast (including Don Cheadle and Jennifer Lopez) in this heartfelt sports drama about a college wrestler … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Pam Anderson, Kiernan Shipka, Dave Bautista, MaCaulay Culkin, and Brenda Song attended the Last Showgirl premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 6th). A seasoned performer must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.
By: Myles Herod – Beginning with low-rent horror films in the 1970s, auteur David Cronenberg has moved film-by-film to the top of the ranks making him Canada’s elder statesman of cinema. Unhurried, talkative, and strangely haunting, “The Shrouds” is not a return to the body-horror of his earlier works like “Rabid,” “Videodrome,” or “The Fly”. Instead … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley attended the Substance premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 5th). Moore portrays a fading Hollywood star feuding with the manifestation of her younger self (Qualley) in this body-horror satire from writer-director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge).
By: Myles Herod – Leave it to 50-year-old Harmony Korine to bring the most experimental and derided film to TIFF. AGGRO DR1FT is unintelligible, irritating, deliberately one note and careless of the ways in which people watch movies. Yes, pushing the envelope is part of Korine’s modus operandi, that’s a given knowing his track record. Nevertheless, we as … Continue reading
By: Myles Herod – He looks worn down. Something is weighing on him. A cold case he’s been assigned is 20 years old. And now here he is, in the middle of the Australian outback, an arid landscape of opal mines and an unsolved murder. The only thing keeping Detective Travis Hurley functioning is heroin … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Sylvester Stallone attended the “In Conversation With… Sylvester Stallone” event held at the TIFF Lightbox at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 15th).