Hello from your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously editor! It’s a short round-up this week because December is busy, busy, busy.
Previously on Comics: It’s US Elections Week
Good morning from your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor. I’ll keep it short because this week, nobody’s going to be concentrating on anything but the US elections. I’m not even in the US and I’m feeling the tension.
TIFF 2024 Review: Harbin Is a Spy Thriller Aiming to Educate
Harbin, set in 1909 Korea, then a protectorate of Japan, follows a group of resistance fighters trying to gain independence from Japan by assassinating the Prime Minister. For the freedom fighters, the fight for Korean independence has been long and arduous with countless lives lost, and this one last mission could end the Japanese occupation…
TIFF 2024 Review: The Assessment Asks What Makes a Good Parent
In The Assessment, a couple living in a post-apocalyptic future try to pass a series of tests to determine whether they can qualify to have a child. But as the tests become increasingly dangerous and abstract, the couple begins to question their relationship and what they want from their world.
TIFF 2024 Review: In Without Blood, the Characters Wage a Personal War After Victory Is Declared
Without Blood is a long conversation between a woman and a man. They could be strangers. Siblings. Friends. Lovers. But what connects them is a nightmare that has changed the course of both of their lives and of so many others. Neither accepts that they’ve been waging their own personal wars, long after the real…
Previously on Comics: Awards, Stopping Project 2025, and Celeb Children’s Authors
Good morning from your Friendly Neighbourhood Previously Editor. I’m here with a round-up of all the news from pop culture last week.
TIFF 2024 Review: Daniela Forever Warns Against Skipping the Grieving Process
In Daniela Forever, a couple in the honeymoon phase of their relationship is torn apart by circumstances beyond their control. The surviving partner finds that bereavement is too overwhelming; he’d rather skip it altogether.
TIFF 2024 Review: The Life of Chuck Searches For Joy in Small Moments
The Life of Chuck tells the three-part story of one man’s life and the memories he left with the people in his life. Based on a Stephen King novella, the Mike Flanagan film aims to make joy in a cynical world. Does it succeed?
REVIEW: Storm #1 Spotlights the Heart of the Goddess, the Hero, the Mutant
An explosion leaves devastation in its wake in Storm #1. The world’s most powerful mutant, Ororo Munroe, can never turn away from those in need. But this rescue effort may put her body and soul in more danger than she’s ever been in before.
REVIEW: Big Jim and the White Boy Gives an American Classic the Political Reimagining it Needs
You thought you knew the story – a 14-year-old boy escapes his abusive father to go on a grand-adventure with an enslaved man accused of murder. But what if Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told the wrong story? Big Jim and the White Boy revisits Twain’s classic tale from a fresh perspective and a…
TIFF 2024 Review: Emilia Pérez Is a Musical About Transition for the Body and Soul
The leader of a drug cartel begins the journey to transition in Emilia Pérez. She’s going to need a talented attorney, a ton of money, and a convincing way to end her old life. But some things are just too hard to leave behind. Can reconnecting with her family bring her the solace she longs…
TIFF 2024 Review: The Piano Lesson Is an Outstanding Adaptation of August Wilson
In The Piano Lesson, the Charles siblings disagree over the fate of a family heirloom. This new film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play asks whether families can overcome their disagreements and the ghosts of their past to preserve their family’s legacy.