Megalopolis TIFF 2024

Megalopolis – TIFF 2024

An architect uses a powerful building material to create a Utopian city in Megalopolis. Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) is the head of the design authority in the city of New Rome, who won a Nobel Prize for developing the infinitely malleable and miraculously strong building material megalon, which he has been using to reshape sections…

Transformer

Transformer

A world champion powerlifter’s transition from male to female is documented in Transformer. Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was a world record holding bodybuilder and marine veteran, who was outed as transgender by a 2015 YouTube video. The outing effectively ends Kroc’s powerlifting career, though she begins the process to transition into Janae Marie Kroczaleski. However, with Janae sporting…

Nymphomaniac

Nymphomaniac

From director Lars von Trier (Melancholia) comes this epic two volume story about a woman with a lifelong sex addition.  Left beaten and bloodied in an alley, the titular nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is taken in by the kind stranger Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård).  While she recovers in his home, Joe insists to Seligman that she…

Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye

I find it a bit ironic that it a negative review of Eagle Eye at FirstShowing.net that resulted in me to bite the bullet of see the film, after going back and forth about it all day, and I ended up liking it. The key to me decided to see the film was the desire…

Disturbia

Disturbia

I think it would be redundant to say that this movie is essentially a remake of Rear Window. I would say that’s partially true. There are definitely some noticeable plot similarities. However, as Peter Howell pointed out in his Toronto Star review, this film is aimed at people, who probably never heard or care of…