The life and marriage of conductor Leonard Bernstein is revisited in Maestro. In 1943, 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) made his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic, setting himself to be one of the first great American conductors. Despite being a gay man, Leonard falls for Costa Rican-Chilean actress Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), a …
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A Chinese-Canadian high school student tries to figure out his identity in Golden Delicious. Jake (Cardi Wong) is a teenager who is under a lot of pressure from both his basketball-loving father, George (Ryan Mah) and social media-influencer girlfriend, Valerie (Parmiss Sehat), to meet their expectations for Jake. Things change with the arrival of Jake’s …
An enjoyable father-daughter drama, which may require more than one viewing to understand.
An LGBTQ+ podcaster begins a relationship with a guy written off as guy-candy in Bros. Bobby Leiber (Billy Eichner) is the host of the popular podcast “The 11th Brick at Stonewall,” and he is part of the committee that is planning to open the National LGTBQ+ History Museum in New York City. While out clubbing, …
A man begins to have a mental breakdown after he is contacted by his estranged mother in Hypochondriac. When he was 12 years old, Will (Zach Villa) was nearly strangled to death by his mother (Marlene Forte), before she was admitted to a psych ward. 18 years later, Will is working at an upscale pottery …
A race of immortal cosmic beings reunites to save the Earth in Eternals. In 5000 BC, the Eternals consisting of Sersi (Gemma Chan), Ikaris (Richard Madden), Thena (Angelina Jolie), Ajak (Salma Hayek), Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), Sprite (Lia McHugh), Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), Makkari (Lauren Ridloff), Druig (Barry Keoghan), and Gilgamesh (Don Lee) were sent to …
The 14th-century Arthurian poem is adapted for the big screening with The Green Knight. Sir Gawain (Dev Patel) is an aspiring knight and the nephew of King Arthur (Sean Harris), who is often found drunk in a brothel with his lover Essel (Alicia Vikander), reprimanded for doing so by his mother (Sarita Choudhury). Gawain joins the …
A young boxer and a call-girl find themselves caught up in the middle of a drug war between the Yakuza and a Chinese gang in First Love. Leo Katsuragi (Masataka Kubota) is an up and coming boxer, who receives the bad news that he has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Having nothing to lose, …
A Long Island school district is rocked by the largest embezzlement scandal in history in Bad Education. Frank Tassone (Hugh Jackman) is the superintendent of the Roslyn School District in Long Island, who along with his assistant superintendent for business, Pam Gluckin (Allison Janney) have brought unprecedented prestige to the district. When it was discovered …
A retired civil engineer enters a competition to be part of the first commercial flight into space in Astronaut. Angus Stewart (Richard Dreyfuss) is a 75-year-old man with heart problems, who has been living with his daughter Molly (Krista Bridges), her husband Jim (Lyriq Bent), and son Barney (Richie Lawrence). When a billionaire entrepreneur named …
The fantastical life and career of Elton John are told in Rocketman. As a child, Reginald Dwight (Taron Egerton) gained an interest in playing music, which was supported by his grandmother Ivy (Gemma Jones), tolerated by his apathetic mother Sheila (Bryce Dallas Howard), and all but ignored by his unloving father Stanley (Steven Mackintosh). As …
The correspondence between a child actor and TV celebrity changes both of their lives in The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. In 2006, 11 year old child actor Rupert Turner (Jacob Tremblay) is shocked by the news that his favourite actor John F. Donovan (Kit Harington) was found dead at the age of 29. A …
A game of truth or dare turns deadly in Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare. Humanitarian college student Olivia (Lucy Hale) is convinced to go on a spring break trip to Mexico with best friend Markie (Violett Beane) and her boyfriend Lucas (Tyler Posey), along with fellow friends Penelope (Sophia Ali), Tyson (Nolan Gerard Funk), Brad (Hayden …
A teenage boy develops a relationship with his father’s research assistant in Call Me by Your Name. Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is a 17 year old boy living with his archaeologist father (Michael Stuhlbarg) and mother (Amira Casar) in Northern Italy. In the summer of 1983, graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) comes to live with the family, …
A closeted homosexual teenager struggles with his identity and relationship with his father in Closet Monster. Oscar Madly (Connor Jessup) is an aspiring make-up artist living alone with his overbearing father (Aaron Abrams). After witnessing a brutal hate crime as a kid, Oscar fears the repercussions of people finding out he is homosexual, even though he begins …
Let me start by saying that I thought that Shame was a really good film. The film does have very strong sexual content, which makes it a little difficult to watch at times (and it’s not really passive entertainment). That said, I thought that overall the film was absolutely enthralling, with excellent performances by Michael Fassbender …
This film won Colin Firth the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, so I was curious to see this film as far back as TIFF. The film follows a homosexual English professor, who is struggling to get over the death of his longtime partner. Firth’s performance is definitely the most notable thing about …