Movies that feature a parent dying from cancer when they have young children often feel more manipulative than authentic, and when it’s a straight-to-streaming movie, that feels even more likely. But Julia Hart’s new movie “Don’t Say Good Luck,” currently streaming on Netflix, ...
As I spend time in lines at TIFF, I have the opportunity to speak with people from all over the world in attendance. I've spoken with other critics, some who write, some who work in video spaces. I've talked to producers and filmmakers who are hoping to have a chance to speak to those ...
At one of my screenings on Day 2 of the Toronto International Film Festival, I spoke with one of the TIFF board members. It was interesting to get a bit of a look behind the curtain on the marketing side of the festival, but if I had been thinking a bit more clearly, I would have asked him ...
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest festivals in the world. Hundreds of celebrities and hundreds of thousands of critics, industry professionals, and movie enthusiasts come to Toronto for 10 days in September to see a collection of major pre-release titles, ...
It’s hard to think of action movies in the 1980s without pointing to the pairing of Goose and Maverick as one of the all-time greats. That was clearly the inspiration for filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley with their new film “Mayday,” streaming on Apple TV. While the ...
I don’t have a full-blown fear of heights, but if I’m playing a video game and have to walk my character across a chasm, I will feel some intense discomfort. So I knew that there would be scenes in “Fall 2: Deadpoint” that would make me clench, and in that regard, Michael and Peter ...