Emily – TIFF 2022

Emily – TIFF 2022

The all-to-short life story of the author of “Wuthering Heights” is told in Emily. Emily Jane Brontë (Emma Mackey) is the second-youngest daughter of an Anglican priest in 19th-century England. Berated by her older sister Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) for being the strange one in the family, Emily takes solace in her brother Branwell (Fionn Whitehead),…

Poster for the movie "The Invisible Man"

The Invisible Man

A woman believes that she is being tormented by her now-invisible abusive ex in The Invisible Man. One night, Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) decides to pack up and leave her abusive husband Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), who also happens to be a well-known optics researcher. Traumatized by her ordeal, Cecilia stays at the home of her…

The Raven

The Raven

I suppose that I shall start by saying that, even though the film is called The Raven (and features plenty of ravens within the film), it has nothing at all to do with Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem (if you want an adaptation, watch the 1963 Vincent Price film).  I suppose the title is meant as…