TIFF 2012 Review: TAI CHI 0 Respects The Past While Racing To The Future
Director Stephen Fung delivers a deliriously over the top reimagining of the life of martial artist Yang Luchuan - founder of the Yang school of tai chi - in the first part of his ambitious blockbuster franchise. Tai Chi 0... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: STORM SURFERS 3D Hangs A Perfect 10

There have been plenty of arguments made about the merits of our current 3D cinematic boom. While much of the talk focuses on ticket prices and the gimmick factor, one common discourse is that the experience of watching a film... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: CLOUD ATLAS is Bold, Brash, Epic, and Silly
Bold, brash, epic, and silly, Cloud Atlas is the latest of a slew of big budget sci-fi epics that's likely to find far more detractors than fans of its quirky style.Drawn from a popular book many considered to be "unfilmable," the... More »
  

Angola Never Looked Sexier Than In THE GREAT KILAPY Trailer!
Effectively blending history and politics with a darkly humorous crime thriller, Angolan director Zeze Gamboa's second feature looks to be suave, sexy and oozing with cool. Set in the mid-1970s, on the eve of Angola's independence from Portugual, O... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN Offers A Double Dose Of Viggo
As if performing in a foreign language isn't enough of a challenge, Ana Piterbarg's Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan features Viggo Mortensen playing not one but two roles entirely in Spanish. It's a casting choice from Piterbarg that -... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE SAPPHIRES Sings and Dances Its Way Through War and Racial Tension
The Sapphires tells the true story of an all-Aborigine girl group -- known in some quarters as Australia's answer to The Supremes -- who toured Vietnam to entertain troops during the war under the management of a washed-out, Irish would-be... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: END OF WATCH, a Gritty, Realistic Police Story
If there's one filmmaker out there who is clearly and passionately interested in the psychology of modern police officers, it'd have to be screenwriter turned director David Ayer. Although his first release was the submarine thriller U-571, all of his... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: HOW TO MAKE MONEY SELLING DRUGS Reframes The Debate
Give writer-director Matthew Cooke full credit. Not only is he clearly smart enough to grasp and present the complicated, interconnected issues surrounding American drug laws, but he also has the good sense to know that if you are going to... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Well Go USA Picks Up Hur Jin-ho's DANGEROUS LIAISONS For U.S. Distribution
In advance of its North American premiere this Monday night at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, the Hollywood Reporter reports that Dangerous Liaisons, Korean director Hur Jin-ho's Chinese-language adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic French novel, has been picked... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: OUTRAGE BEYOND Brings Back the Violence
Any fan of Japanese Cinema from the last few decades knows: If there is a gun in your face, the last person you want to see on the other end is Takeshi Kitano (or rather his actor-ly persona Beat Takeshi).... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE MASTER, Brilliant, Confounding, and/or Terrible
You are going to look at me, and you're not going to blink. I'm going to tell you a series of things about this film, and if you blink, I'll have to start again.The Master is a hypnotic film. It's... More »
  

TIFF 2012: STORM SURFERS 3D Trailer
Set your clocks. In just under 24 hours, adventure documentary Storm Surfers 3D will have it's North American premiere in Toronto, and if early reports from cinema screenings around Australia are any judge, TIFF audiences are in for an epic... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: 7 BOXES Are All Full of Genre Treats!
It's a hot day in the capital city of Paraguay and the exchange rate for US Dollars is running as high as the mercury in Asunción's bustling marketplace. Narrow rows of stalls glutted with people, consumer goods, and hanging animal... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: JOHN DIES AT THE END, An Initially Entertaining But Deeply Flawed Adaptation
David Wong can see things that other people can't. Strange things. Frightening things. Sometimes dead things and creatures from other dimensions. So can his friend John, with whom he has set up something of a cottage business eliminating supernatural pests.... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: SIGHTSEERS Delivers Black Hearted Laughs
If there is one thing the English north has a great deal of, it is space. Space and rocks. Both of which are put to extensive use by Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram) as the new couple partakes... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: REBELLE (War Witch) is Bloody and Compassionate
Let us start off by saying that Kim Nyugen's Rebelle, is easily the best Canadian war film ever produced.  I know, you say that there aren't many Canadian war films made outside of National Film Board documentaries and that big... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts
Marty (Colin Farrell) has a problem. He has several, actually, but the only one he seems to notice is that he has completely and utterly failed to write the screenplay promised long ago to his frustrated agent. Titled Seven Psychopaths,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: I DECLARE WAR Goes To Battle with Boys and Bullying
One weekend day a number of the nerdier kids from the local middle school gather their sticks and twine and balloons filled with red dye, and head into the local woods to play capture-the-flag.  Oh, those tweens today with their... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO Makes You Lean Forward and Listen
There is a key to unlocking Peter Strickland's dense and puzzling Berberian Sound Studio.  A line of dialogue that comes from the director of the film within the film.  A slip of the tongue.  In movies about sound, or more... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: ANNA KARENINA Looks Pretty, But is More Style Than Substance
It's probably best to admit up front that I'd never actually read Tolstoy's tome about lust and infidelity in the Russian court. While I've made my way through much of the sullen Dostoyevsky, and maintain that dear Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov... More »
  
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