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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).
Photos by: Myles Herod – Ethan Hawke, and Maya Hawke attended the Wildcat premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on (Sept. 11th). Ethan Hawke explores the life and art of American author Flannery O’Connor — played by his own daughter, Maya Hawke — in his latest interrogation of the artist’s way.
By: Myles Herod – Boy Kills World is an arcade game for the multiplex screens, a bruising melee of broken bones that goes for some of the same beat-em-up high octane found in today’s superhero franchises. Bloodier for sure – but not much better. Inspired by high-flying button-mashers Mortal Kombat, the movie stars Bill Skarsgard as the titular … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Richard Linklater attended the Hit Man premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on (Sept. 11th). The latest from Richard Linklater reunites the prolific indie auteur with Everybody Wants Some!!’s Glen Powell for a sorta-true crime comedy thriller about role-play, romance, and the precarious pursuit of self-knowledge.
Photos by: Myles Herod – Harmony Korine attended the Aggro Dr1ft premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 11th). Spellbinding infrared photography conjures a hallucinatory portrait of a haunted assassin (Jordi Mollà) in this sensuous experimental elegy from Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers, Trash Humpers).
Photos by: Myles Herod – Ava DuVernay attended the Origin premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 11th. Ava DuVernay directs an inspired adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s life, as she digs into the nuance of discrimination while writing what would become her New York Times bestselling book, Caste: The Origins of Our … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Taika Waititi attended the Next Goal Wins premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10th. Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, and Oscar Kightley star in Taika Waititi’s comedy about the American Samoa soccer team’s attempt to make a World Cup — 12 years after their infamous 31-0 loss … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Neve Campbell, Chelsea McMullan, Karen Kain, & Jurgita Dronina attended the Swan Song premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9th. Director Chelsea McMullan takes us inside the National Ballet of Canada’s 2022 production of Swan Lake, directed and staged by the legendary Karen Kain.
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