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TIFF 2012 – Short Reviews Round-Up

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Finishing off our coverage of the 2012 Toronto Film Festival we have a number of short reviews from the rest of the films we saw at the festival. You can find our complete coverage of the festival right here. Call Girl (3.5/5) Call Girl is based on the true story of a scandal in the [...]




TIFF 2012 – The Iceman Review

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The American gangster is an almost a Terminator-like figure in cinema and TV: he just keeps coming and coming, and seemingly will not stop. Audience fascination with these amoral figures – who live outside the law but within a rigid parallel culture with its own codes and rules of engagement – has been endlessly analysed [...]




TIFF 2012: Aftershock Review

Aftershock

Chilean director Nicolás López makes his English language debut with horror/thriller, Aftershock, starring the legendary Eli Roth. The film opens on Roth, an American, travelling through Chile with his two friends, Ariel (Ariel Levy) and Pollo (Nicolás Martínez); his local friends are taking him, the Gringo, around the country whilst he’s staying with them. Starting [...]




TIFF 2012 – Seven Psychopaths Review

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Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to In Bruges is an undemanding but very entertaining shaggy dog black comedy that follows Colin Farrell’s alcoholic screenwriter’s attempts to write the titular screenplay. His difficulties in doing so are exacerbated by his messy personal life and his involvement with the peculiar Billy (Sam Rockwell) and the dognapping ring that he’s [...]




TIFF 2012: Artifact Review

Jared Leto in Artifact

Revolving around the events that saw 30 Seconds to Mars sued by their own record label back in 2008 for $30m., Artifact is one of the greatest music documentaries ever made, and an important documentary for our times. The music industry has been struggling for the best part of a decade with technology developing at [...]




Silver Linings Playbook, Artifact & Seven Psychopaths Win TIFF Audience Awards

Silver Linings Playbook

The past week and a half have been an absolutely fantastic ride at the Toronto International Film Festival, and as the final day nears its end, the winners of this year’s BlackBerry People’s Choice Awards have been announced. Taking the lead with the People’s Choice Award is David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, with a [...]




TIFF 2012: The Impossible Review

Samuel Joslin, Ewan McGregor and Oaklee Pendergast in The Impossible

Acclaimed Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona makes his English-language debut with The Impossible, by far one of the most harrowing films you will ever see. Based on the true story of a family caught in the events of the Indian Ocean tsunami that struck the coast of Thailand (trailer here), Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor [...]




TIFF 2012: Thanks For Sharing Review

Mark Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow in Thanks for Sharing

Marking the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right), Thanks For Sharing is one of the funniest films of the year. It’s rare for a dramatic comedy to strike the balance so well between drama and comedy, and Blumberg walks the fine perfectly here, making one of the best debuts behind [...]




TIFF 2012: Frances Ha Review

Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha

Noah Baumbach’s latest feature, Frances Ha, was a pleasant surprise when the TIFF line-up was first announced. No one had known he was making it, nor that he was re-teaming with Greta Gerwig once more, following Greenberg, with the pair writing the script together. The writer-director’s name is one of the most well-known in the [...]




TIFF 2012: At Any Price Review

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Zac Efron has spent the last few years increasingly diversifying his career, and has done an excellent job of recasting the image that he could quite happily have settled for and been successful at. Instead, he started shifting gears in 17 Again, took on a drama like Charlie St. Cloud, has a great little role [...]




TIFF 2012: Argo Review

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Argo is based on the true story of the 1980 rescue of six U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran who escaped capture by a militant mob by hiding in the Canadian Ambassor’s residence until a bizarre CIA plot managed to get them safely out of Iran. Ben Affleck’s third feature as director is a stylistically subdued homage to the ’70s era studio [...]