How far will humanity go to save itself and the planet? Are we willing to make the sacrifices called for to ensure the next generation doesn’t suffer like ours? In Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness?, the audience is asked to bear witness to the extreme choices humanity must make to survive.
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: Love in the Big City Is Full of Cliches and Tropes, But It Somehow Makes You Love It
Based on the novel by Korean author Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City is a coming-of-age and coming-out story set in Seoul, against a backdrop of a society too rigid to accept people who are different.
TIFF 2024 Review: The Deb Is Funny, Musical, and a Reminder for Young Girls that Love Isn’t the Only Goal in Life
Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut The Deb takes place in a small town in Australia, where a big city girl finds herself tackling an archaic tradition of the patriarchy, a debutante ball, while trying to support her small-town cousin’s dream of finally attending the annual event.
REVIEW: Loving, Ohio Exposes the Monsters of a Small-Town Cult
Sloane is a high school senior in Loving, Ohio, a small town that seems perfectly normal from the outside. As someone who’s spent her entire life in Loving, however, Sloane is uncomfortably familiar with a hidden facet of the town that’s not a secret to its residents. Loving is the center of a new religious…
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: Babygirl Navigates Women’s Desires Through a Stilted, Unsexy Fantasy
In Babygirl, Nicole Kidman plays a woman who has it all, till she meets a younger man who offers her a chance to fulfill her dark desires.
REVIEW: HoverGirls Shines with Sparkling Shojo Magic
In the first American release of Power Rangers in 1993, the producers took the original Japanese footage and inserted it between scenes of American actors, claiming the action was set in Los Angeles. Even as a child, this mixture felt slightly strange to me, yet I still couldn’t help but wonder what one of my…
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.
TIFF 2024 Review: Meet the Barbarians Is a Bitingly Funny Satire About Discrimination in the Refugee Crisis
In Meet the Barbarians, a small town in France prepares itself to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. But when the refugees turn out to be from Syria instead, the town must reckon with their prejudices and either make peace or war with the new arrivals.
VIZ Pubwatch: August and September 2024
Welcome back to the VIZ Pubwatch, everyone! Did you miss me? I spent my August crunching on convention prep and then got COVID and missed Anime NYC because of it, but I’m better now and ready to share more VIZ news and reviews with you all! We’ll talk about some shonen classics and some brand-new…
TIFF 2024 Review: Superboys of Malegaon Isn’t Afraid of Flying Close to the Sun
In the small town of Malegaon, dreams never come true. Superboys of Malegaon shares the true story of a group of friends in 1997 determined to bring the magic of films to their fellow townsfolk. But can they check their egos long enough to realise their cinematic dreams?