T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 11, 2021 TIFF: Listening to Kenny G is about as pleasantly inoffensive as his music Penny Lane's profile on the smooth jazz superstar can't quite muster up enough energy to make its explorations of his notoriety (good and bad) sing.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 11, 2021 TIFF: Dear Evan Hansen is a confounding adaptation of the stage musical Ben Platt's age is the least of our problems in Stephen Chbosky's misguided adaptation of the already-misguided musical Dear Evan Hansen.
F Categories Fantasia 2021 Festivals Movies September 1, 2021 Fantasia 2021: The subversive erotic shorts of Botanicum Eroticorum From the erotic to the absurd, Fantasia's adult short film showcase explores the form, function, and frottage of cinematic sex.
F Categories Fantasia 2021 Festivals Movies Reviews August 26, 2021 Fantasia 2021 Roundup: Hellbender, All the Moons & more This year's Fantasia Festival offered a solid selection of horror, low-fi science fiction, and quietly paced drama.
F Categories Fantasia 2021 Festivals Movies Reviews August 22, 2021 Fantasia 2021 Dispatch: Indemnity, Yakuza Princess, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko Action flicks from South Africa and South America, and a gentle slice-of-life anime, mark our latest dispatch.
F Categories Fantasia 2021 Festivals Movies Reviews August 18, 2021 Fantasia 2021 Dispatch: What Josiah Saw, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, The Righteous Two chilling morality plays centered around faith, and an inventive Japanese time-travel comedy, center our latest Fantasia coverage.
F Categories Fantasia 2021 Festivals Movies Reviews August 10, 2021 Fantasia 2021 Dispatch: Brain Freeze, Tin Can, Tokyo Revengers Green zombies, isolated scientists, and time-traveling middle schoolars populate our first dispatch from this year's Fantasia.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Tribeca 2021 July 2, 2021 Tribeca 2021: Last Film Show, Brighton 4th Our coverage of Tribeca closes out with two international films that handle everything from the power of cinema to parental sacrifice.
A Categories Festivals Movies Reviews July 2, 2021 A Dispatch from the 2021 AFI Docs Film Festival Documentaries from Zac Manuel, Garrett Bradley, Dilsey Davis and more highlight a difficult year taking its furtive steps back into a potentially post-COVID world.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Tribeca 2021 June 23, 2021 Tribeca 2021 Roundup: “Roaring 20s,” “Shapeless” & more The New York-based festival roars back to post-lockdown life with its usual solid lineup of future award winners and indie gems.
