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TIFF Review: Black Swan
“I kill myself for you people every night!” so the unspoken cry of the stage actor, or in this case the professional Ballerina, goes. Darren Aronofsky continues to examination of the psyches of...
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TIFF Review: Tabloid
What a joy it is to see certain absurdities in life and perspective and truth as filtered through the vision of Errol Morris. The documentarian is well known for his particular style of...
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TIFF Review: Cold Fish
Fearless. Absolutely fearless filmmaking. Sion Sono takes no quarter, doesn’t deal with compromises and doesn’t hold anything back. He goes by feeling, sets no boundaries and won’t second guess...
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TIFF Review: I Saw the Devil
“Nothing will go wrong,” is about the must amusing thing to ever hear in a Kim Ji Woon film. The director has made a number of films spanning a number of genres and they are about just about...
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TIFF Review: Trigger
****½ (4.5/5) The band is called Trigger and in their day they were something. Ten years later in present day Toronto the two lead women of the band reunite in a sterile restaurant that smacks...
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TIFF Review: The Butcher, the Chef, & the Swordsman
When a fat, vulgar and none-too-bright butcher glimpses the woman of his dreams, the lovely Mei who conjures visions of peach blossoms and naughty sex, there is nothing that is going to stop him...
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TIFF Review: 127 Hours
It turns out that two great things came about from Danny Boyle’s previous over-baked and lobotomized fantasy, Slumdog Millionaire. First, the Oscar means he will probably be able to work for the...
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TIFF Review: A Horrible Way to Die
AAnd now for something completely different: A mumblecore tinged serial killer drama starring Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg, two regulars of the movement, and House of the Devil’s A.J. Bowen. It is...
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Mamo #179: For the Love of Cold Korean Vengeance
I Saw The Devil, Detective Dee, You Are Here, Buried, and much much more as the Matts stop for yet another much-needed lunch on the TIFF 2010 trail! To download this podcast use this URL:...
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TIFF Review: Beautiful Boy
There are enough school shooting films out there at the moment that they are threatening to become a sub-genre unto themselves. Elephant, Bowling For Columbine, Polytechnique have all won major...
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TIFF Review: Womb
Young Rebecca finds the love of her life at a very tender age of twelve with Tommy. They spend an endlessly cloudy and rainy summer on a spartan beach where they share their souls and first kiss....
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TIFF Review: Lapland Odyssey
Director Dome Karukoski sure knows how to set a tone. In order to get you into the spirit of his occasionally blackly comic single night road trip film Lapland Odyssey, he introduces you to a tree...
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TIFF Review: You Are Here
Here is an experiment. Take the name of six colours, write them in random order several times using a coloured pen that does not match the name of the colour. Time yourself reading this list of...
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Mamo #180: For the Love of Bed
Here’s our final (and unfortunately somewhat buzzy) podcast from the Toronto International Film Festival 2010, with special guest star Mad Hatter! Thanks for joining us. To download this podcast use...
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TIFF Review: Machete Maidens Unleashed
Blood is not the only thing they suck!” “They caged their bodies, but not their desires!” “She’s a one Mama massacre squad!” “They’re over-exposed but not under developed!” “Their guns are hot and...
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TIFF Review: Confessions
A lot of people are going to have problems with Japan’s submission to the 2011 Foreign Film Oscar race. I know I do. There are levels of cynicism, cruelty and exploitation that run very deep. And...
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TIFF Review: Monsters
There are monsters amoung us – figuratively and literally – in the simple yet aptly titled not-quite-creature-feature, Monsters. Sometime in the near future a wee spot of primordial alien matter...
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Extended Thoughts: Another Year
Mike Leigh’s tenth Feature film, assembled in the usual fashion of character and screenwriting collaboration with his actors, is very much his typical take on the various work-a-day folk in...
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TIFF Winner, “The King’s Speech” Gets a Fancy Trailer
Until about five minutes ago, all I knew about The King’s Speech was that it won the people’s choice award at The Toronto International Film Festival this year and it stars Mr. Colin Firth completely...
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Review: Film Socialism
Director: Jean-Luc Godard Writer: Jean-Luc Godard Producer: Ruth Waldburger Starring: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Patti Smith, Alain Badiou Year: 2010 Running time: 102...
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Row Three Presents: MASSIVE TIFF10 SUMMARY
Between written coverage and Mamo! on the Street podcasting, we hope you have enjoyed the extensive coverage Row Three brought your way during the 11 day madness of this years edition of the Toronto...
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TIFF Review: Inside Job
****~ (4/5) [Now Playing (at least in Toronto). Go see it!] A more apt title for Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job would be: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Financial Crisis but Were Afraid...
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TIFF Review: Blue Valentine
***** (5/5) [Now Playing at a Theater near you!] Quite by accident I had the opportunity to watch back-to-back films at the festival ruminating on the destructive force of love, ignited first in...
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TIFF Review: Another Year
***** (5/5) Another Year, Another Mike Leigh film, another masterpiece. Early word out of Cannes was strong and Mike Leigh has been a consistent favorite of mine, but even with these built-in...
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TIFF Review: Meek’s Cutoff
****½ (4.5/5) The western art film that is Meek’s Cutoff is a curious concoction, introducing the minimalist sensibilities of Kelly Reichardt’s previous films, Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, to a...
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