Toronto International Film Festival

Blackbird

By Andy Howell | September 2019

In Blackbird, a matriarch has a terminal illness, which is going to kill her soon. She calls together the family, including her…

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In Blackbird, a matriarch has a terminal illness, which is going to kill her soon. She calls together the family, including her husband, best friend, two...

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The Father is the third film by award-winning Bulgarian duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. At only 1 hr 27 min this effective "dramedy" about a...

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In Entwined, a person-in-peril tale out of Greece, things are not what they seem. Supernatural forces are at work in the woods, affecting relationships,...

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The Toronto International Film Festival, better known as TIFF, is currently in full swing. Which means that the fall movie season is upon us, better known...

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There are refugee crises all over the world, and though the details vary the same overarching story repeats again and again: people fleeing violence and...

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The tiny hero of Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger was born with a series of complications. His face “wasn’t able...

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You have two options when it comes to survival: fight or flight. Clearly, flight is the easiest and the less stressful of the two choices. This is...

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In the ancient Legend of the Pelican, the mother bird feeds her famished, violently-pecking offspring with rivulets of her own blood. The protagonist of...

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Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own. Hala, from writer-director Minhal Baig, is a wonderfully...

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Let’s just agree we’re all racists and move on. It’s everywhere in the world and is just as ugly. Director Daniel Gordon and journalist Stan Grant...

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