Monkey Man

Monkey Man

A man with suppressed rage seeks vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother in Monkey Man. Kid (Dev Patel) is a man in the Indian city of Yatana, who ekes out a living getting beat out wearing a gorilla mask in an underground fight club run by Tiger (Sharlto Copley). Kid is tormented…

TIFF 2023 Review Kill

KILL – TIFF 2023

A pair of commandos fight back against a gang of 40 bandits on an Indian passenger train in KILL. Amrit (Lakshya) is a Captain in the Indian army, who boards a train bound for New Dehli to halt the arranged marriage of his love Tulika (Tanya Maniktala). However, the train is also boarded by a…

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

A doomed ship carries deadly cargo in The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Clemens (Corey Hawkins) is a British doctor stranded in Romania, who secures passage aboard the Detetmer helmed by Captain Eliot (Liam Cunningham) and his first mate Wojchek (David Dastmalchian). Part of the Demeter’s cargo on its voyage to London is fifty unmarked…

RRR

RRR

The lives of two Indian revolutionaries cross paths in RRR. In 1920 during the British Raj, Govoner Scott Buxton (Ray Stevenson) and his wife Catherine (Alison Doody) forcibly abduct a young girl named Malli (Twinkle Sharma) from the Gond tribe in Adilabad. Malli’s brother Komaram Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.) travels to Delhi to rescue…

The Fabelmans

The Fabelmans – TIFF 2022

A young man pursues a career in filmmaking as his family life disintegrates in The Fabelmans. Since being taken to see The Greatest Show on Earth as a child, Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle) has had a growing love of filmmaking. Excused as a hobby by his computer engineer father, Burt (Paul Dano), Sammy finds support…

Finch

Finch

A man in a post-apocalyptic world builds a robot companion in Finch. Finch Weinberg (Tom Hanks) is one of the few survivors of a solar flare, which destroyed the ozone layer, resulted in uninhabitable levels of ultraviolet radiation. Finch spends his days scavenging the ruins of St. Louis while coming home at night to take…

dug-dug

Dug Dug – TIFF21

The inhabitants of a small Indian village begin to worship the motorcycle of a recently deceased man in Dug Dug. While riding his motorcycle through the Indian countryside, local drunk Thakur (Altaf Khan) crashes near a billboard for a magician and is promptly bisected by a passing truck. Thakur’s motorcycle is recovered by the three local…

Trial of the Chicago 7

Trial of the Chicago 7

A group of peaceful protestors are placed on trial in the aftermath of riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in The Trial of the Chicago 7. During the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1968, thousands of protestors gather in Chicago to protest the Vietnam War, which turns into a violent clash with the…

Kriya

Kriya

A man finds himself thrust into the funeral ritual for the father a woman he just picked up in a bar in Kriya. Neel (Noble Luke) is a nightclub DJ, who picks up a woman named Sitara (Navjot Randhawa) following a set. He ends up following her home to find Sitara’s mother Tara Devi (Avantika…