#Shadow in the Cloud Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film

#Shadow in the Cloud Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film

“#Shadow in the Cloud Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film” Shadow in the Cloud kicks-off with an amusing Looney Toons-style cartoon about a lazy, drunken World War II pilot blaming “gremlins” for all his problems. It’s cheeky and funny, and it starts things off on the right foot. “Ah-ha!” you think. “This movie is going to…

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#Violation Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film

#Violation Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film

“#Violation Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film” Rage, betrayal, confusion, and bloodshed are the driving factors of Violation, an unflinchingly brutal, often quite gruesome story of a woman who goes to extreme lengths following a terrible incident. Writer-directors Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli do not shy away from the violence, employing meticulously crafted practical effects to portray a…

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#Concrete Cowboy Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film

#Concrete Cowboy Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film

“#Concrete Cowboy Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film” Outside of overpriced carriage rides through historic areas, you might not expect to see horses galloping through the streets of Philadelphia. But there’s a century-long tradition of Black horsemanship in the City of Brotherly Love, primarily in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood located east of Fairmount Park in North Philadelphia that…

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#‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: A Predictable But Strong Father-Son Story [TIFF 2020]

#‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: A Predictable But Strong Father-Son Story [TIFF 2020]

“#‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: A Predictable But Strong Father-Son Story [TIFF 2020]” Outside of overpriced carriage rides through historic areas, you might not expect to see horses galloping through the streets of Philadelphia. But there’s a century-long tradition of Black horsemanship in the City of Brotherly Love, primarily in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood located east of Fairmount Park…

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#MLK/FBI Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film

#MLK/FBI Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film

“#MLK/FBI Review: TIFF 2020 – /Film” There’s a dark shadow cast over the life and career of J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous FBI Director who created the G-Man persona and ruled the Bureau with an iron fist for over four decades. Even if you want to overlook the unconfirmed rumors, the fact remains that for…

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#‘Fargo’ Season 4 Review: An Ambitious, Overstuffed, Ultra-Quirky Crime Saga

#‘Fargo’ Season 4 Review: An Ambitious, Overstuffed, Ultra-Quirky Crime Saga

“#‘Fargo’ Season 4 Review: An Ambitious, Overstuffed, Ultra-Quirky Crime Saga” The Coen Brothers make movies about quirky characters, but it would be nice if Noah Hawley and the team behind the Fargo TV series would remember that there’s more to those movies than the quirk. In adapting both the Fargo movie and borrowing several other beats from the Big Book…

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#‘Pieces of a Woman’ Review: Vanessa Kirby Delivers a Career-Best Performance in a Tragedy That Never Comes Together [TIFF 2020]

#‘Pieces of a Woman’ Review: Vanessa Kirby Delivers a Career-Best Performance in a Tragedy That Never Comes Together [TIFF 2020]

“#‘Pieces of a Woman’ Review: Vanessa Kirby Delivers a Career-Best Performance in a Tragedy That Never Comes Together [TIFF 2020]” How do we begin to put ourselves back together after everything falls apart? After our hopes and dreams suddenly go up in smoke? That’s the sort of question that lies at the heart of the…

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#‘Nomadland’ Review: Frances McDormand is Sublime in Chloé Zhao’s Achingly Beautiful Drama [TIFF 2020]

#‘Nomadland’ Review: Frances McDormand is Sublime in Chloé Zhao’s Achingly Beautiful Drama [TIFF 2020]

“#‘Nomadland’ Review: Frances McDormand is Sublime in Chloé Zhao’s Achingly Beautiful Drama [TIFF 2020]” “I’m not homeless. I’m houseless.” So says Fern (Frances McDormand), the nomad at the center of Chloé Zhao‘s achingly beautiful Nomadland. Fern lives in her van now, but once, she was a resident of Empire, Nevada – a town that simply ceased to exist…

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#‘The Third Day’ Review: An Okay Horror Movie and Its Subpar Sequel Crammed Together Into a Miniseries [TIFF 2020]

#‘The Third Day’ Review: An Okay Horror Movie and Its Subpar Sequel Crammed Together Into a Miniseries [TIFF 2020]

“#‘The Third Day’ Review: An Okay Horror Movie and Its Subpar Sequel Crammed Together Into a Miniseries [TIFF 2020]” If a mysterious, suicidal girl invites you to her mysterious, secluded town, it’s probably wise to say “Thanks, but no thanks.” Sadly, that doesn’t occur to Jude Law in The Third Day. Law plays Sam, a grief-stricken…

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