A Fantastic Toronto Festival Round-Up

Who needs a clever title when you can just get right down to business? Also, happy November. Continue reading →

Review: High Fantasy, 2017, dir. Jenna Bass

I think we’re going to see a lot of people making movies on iPhones, or I guess I should say a lot more people; it’s not like Sean Baker, the brilliant Sean Baker, he of Tangerine, and Starlet, and Prince of Broadway, is the first filmmaker to think of using a mobile device to shoot a movie, but I doubt … Continue reading →

Review: By the Time It Gets Dark, 2016, dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong

It’s important to be honest with yourself when you’re a film critic, and sometimes that can be really hard, especially when “being honest” means admitting that you’re not sure if you understand the movie you’re fucking writing about. Case in point: I really genuinely loved Anocha Suwichakornpong’s By the Time It Gets Dark, but damned if I … Continue reading →

Review: The Dreamed Path, 2016, dir. Angela Schanelec

Complaining about a movie’s dullness or accusing a movie of pretension always makes me feel like a bad movie critic, but hey, when the shoe fits, right? Such is the case with Angela Schanelec’s new film, The Dreamed Path, another one of those “remote TIFF screeners” I was privileged to watch on behalf of The Playlist; … Continue reading →