Godland [2022] – ★★★★ “To get back up to the shining world from there/My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,/And Following its path we took no care/To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far/, through a round aperture I saw appear/Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears/, Where we came forth, and…
Tag: Toronto International Film Festival
“Housing” Films: “99 Homes” & “House of Sand and Fog”
99 Homes [2014] – ★★★★ This film is set in the background of the 2008 housing crisis in the US when many Americans lost their homes. Andrew Garfield (Silence (2016)) is Dennis Nash, a single father, who loses his home to the bank and has a chance to get it back if he starts working…
“Antiviral” Review
Antiviral [2012] – ★★★★ In 2012, a science-fiction film titled Antiviral hit both the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, and what everybody talked about was that this film is from David Cronenberg’s son – Brandon Cronenberg. People started to look for similarities between Antiviral and David Cronenberg’s films and trademarks, and they…
“The Wife” Review
The Wife [2018] – ★★★★ There is a saying that behind every successful man there is a woman, and The Wife exemplifies this saying like no other film. More often than not, society concerns itself with appearances, and people often only see what the façade presents – be it in relation to a relationship or…
“Lady Macbeth” Review
Lady Macbeth [2017] – ★★★★ 👗Transportive to the era, Lady Macbeth is a thoughtful drama, shining an astounding performance from Florence Pugh. This limited budget production-film takes the story of Nicholas Lescov titled Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1865) as its inspiration to set its own in rural England. Florence Pugh plays a vivacious…
“The Limehouse Golem” Review
The Limehouse Golem [2017] – ★★★★ This film, based on a novel by Peter Ackroyd Dan Leno and The Limehouse Golem, starts with Victorian London being shaken by a series of gruesome murders deemed to be perpetuated by an individual so mythical he is called Golem. Eccentric Inspector John Kildare (Bill Nighy) is assigned to…
“Still Alice” Review
Still Alice [2014] – ★★★★1/2 Still Alice is a film based on Lisa Genova’s 2007 best-selling novel of the same name and starring Julianne Moore in the role which landed her an Academy Award for the best performance of the year. However, Still Alice is so much more than simply a demonstration of an interesting…
“12 Years a Slave” Review
12 Years a Slave [2013] – ★★★★★ Coming from Steve McQueen (director of Shame (2011)), 12 Years a Slave can now be comfortably described as this year’s cinematic sensation. The film, based on a self-autobiographical novel by Solomon Northup, tells the story of a black free man, who lives a happy family life in Saratoga, New York…
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