Never Let Go

Never Let Go

A mother tries to protect her sons from an evil spirit surrounding their home in Never Let Go. In a post-apocalyptic world, a single Mother (Halle Berry) has created strict rules to protect her twin sons Nolan (Percy Daggs IV) and Samuel (Anthony B. Jenkins) from the Evil surrounding their home. The most important of…

Riddle of Fire

Riddle of Fire

Three friends find themselves on a wilderness adventure on a quest to acquire a blueberry pie in Riddle of Fire. Hazel A’Dale (Charlie Stover), his younger brother Jodie (Skyler Peters), and their friend Alice (Phoebe Ferro) make up Three Immortal Reptiles, a prepubescent dirtbike gang, betting up to mischief and petty crimes in Ribbon, Wyoming….

A Haunting in Venice

A Haunting in Venice

A Halloween séance ends in murder in A Haunting in Venice. Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) has retired from murder investigations and is now living in solitude in Venice. However, Poirot is visited by his old friend, mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), who invites Poirot to join her at a Halloween party hosted by palazzo…

Satan's Slaves: Communion

Satan’s Slaves: Communion

Terror returns for the Suwono family in Satan’s Slaves: Communion. Four years after the incident that forced them to flee their home, Rini Suwono (Tara Basro) is living in an isolated apartment block in Jakarta with her father Bahri (Bront Palarae) and younger brothers Toni (Endy Arfian) and Bondi (Nasar Anuz). Shortly before the start…

Broker

Broker – TIFF 2022

A pair of human traffickers are joined by an unwanted baby’s mother to find new parents to sell it to in Broker. So-young (Lee Ji-eun) is a young mother who drops her baby off at a box at the Busan Family Church, who is then intercepted by church worker Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won) and laundry-owner Sang-hyun…

The Night of All Nights

The Night of All Nights

Four longtime couples reflect on that status of their relationships in The Night of All Nights. It can be easy to assume that when a couple gets married, that their relationship would last forever. That way of thinking is tested by a profile for four long term couples from around the world. This includes Hildegard & Heinz-Siegfried…

The Girl with All the Gifts

The Girl with All the Gifts

A young girls holds the cure for a zombie outbreak in The Girl with All the Gifts. In the near future, humanity has been ravaged by a fungal disease that has left the population dominated by flesh-eating “hungries.” At a British army base headed by Sgt Eddie Parks (Paddy Considine), research is done by Dr…

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

Being Elmo is straight-forward documentary about Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash and his journey from loving the Muppets as kid to becoming one of the most popular characters on Sesame Street – Elmo.  The film is also a very intriguing behind-the-scenes look into the world of the Muppets and some time is spent in the film showing how they are made (which essentially…

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

Director Terrence Malick has generally been well known for quality over quantity with his films.  The Tree of Life is only Malick’s fifth film in a nearly forty year career.  The only previous film of Malick’s that I saw was 1998’s The Thin Line, which has a few stylistic similarities to this film (most notable the…