Four years ago, I wrote an article for this very website about books that defined my upbringing. Though that list may have changed since 2016, I still hold a special place in my heart for one of the inclusions: Caitlin Moran’s funny, filthy, antic-filled “How to Build a Girl”. Fast-forward four years and the trailer […]Read More
Rian Johnson’s new “whodunnit like like no one has ever dunnit” Knives Out has just had a new trailer drop after its overwhelmingly positive reception at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). This murder mystery sees the patriarch of a huge family, who also happens to be a murder mystery writer himself, die under suspicious […]Read More
An “anti-hate satire” about a ten-year-old boy whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler has just won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, firmly establishing its front-runner position in the Oscars race. Second place went to Noah Baumbach’s divorce drama Marriage Story, with third place going to Bong Joon-ho’s hotly anticipated Parasite. Jumping […]Read More
The first announcement from the prestigious Toronto Film Festival has just dropped, and there are some huge names and hotly-anticipated films on the list. The festival is one of the largest in terms of attendance, attracting half a million people each year, and its publicly-voted People’s Choice Award is often an early signifier for what […]Read More
This year, the People’s Choice Award went to Green Book directed by Peter Farrelly. Award-winning actors Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen star in the film, which tells the story of a working-class Italian-American bouncer who takes a job chauffeuring an African American classical pianist across the American South in the 1960s. The first runner-up was Barry Jenkins’ […]Read More
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