Eternals

Eternals

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…

Daddy

Daddy

A former anthropologist reflects on his life as a stay at home father in Daddy. Brendan Cooney is a former anthropologist and journalist, who moved to Copenhagen after meeting and marrying his wife Ida. Unable to find a job due to the inability to speak Danish, Brendan settles for a life a stay-at-home father to his…

First Love

First Love – TIFF19

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,…

nirvanna the band the show

nirvanna the band the show

Viceland presents the television series nirvanna the band the show, based on the original webseries of the same name by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol. Matt and Jay are two members of a band, whose ultimate goal is to get a gig at the Rivoli club in Toronto. The two come up with a number of elaborate…

Some Freaks

Some Freaks

Two social outcasts find love with each other in Some Freaks. Matt (Thomas Mann) is an awkward teenager, who repeatedly finds himself bullied over the fact that he wears a patch over his lost eye. One day Matt meets Jill (Lily Mae Harrington), an overweight girl with dyed-blue hair and a lip piercing, who also…

Top Five

Top Five

Chris Rock writes, directs, and stars in this dramedy about a comedian, who wants to be taken more seriously.  Andre Allen (Rock) is considered the funniest man in American, whose claim to fame was a trilogy of Hammy the Bear buddy cop films, in which Allen performed in a bear costume.  No longer wanting to…

An Honest Liar

An Honest Liar

During his career, magician James “The Amazing” Randi was known as the greatest escape artist since Harry Houdini.  Randi always started his shows by describing himself as a “liar, cheat, and charlatan” and describes magicians as the most honest people, since they tell you that they are going to fool you.  This is why Randi…

David & Me

David & Me

Ray Klonsky is a Jewish-Italian man from a racially mixed neighbourhood in Toronto.  When Ray’s father started to notice he was starting to go down a troubled path, Ray was connected with David McCallum, who is currently serving a life sentence in prison, for a murder that he did not commit.  With David’s story inspiring…

Behind the Candelabra

Behind the Candelabra

Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra is notable for two things.  First, the film has been heavily hyped as being Soderbergh’s final film as a director.  It remains to be seen whether this truly will be his final film or if Soderbergh will merely end up taking a sabbatical for a few years.  The…