by allan tong for FILMbutton This year’s Palme d’Or winner at Cannes is a gripping, powerful, but also meandering three-hour journey through a young woman’s lesbian relationship. Carrying the picture is Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adèle, a high schooler who falls…
by allan tong for FILMbutton Ron Woodruff was a foul-mouthed, ill-mannered redneck who contracted AIDS in 1986. Back then only queers got AIDS, and Dallas was as redneck as it got. Woodruff lost his job, trailer home and friends. A…
by allan tong for FILMbutton Matt and Owen are two middle-class American film geeks who make thinly-veiled homages to their film heroes, from Kubrick to Tarantino. Like any geeks, they’re bullied at school and ignored by the pretty girls. Gradually,…
by allan tong for FILMbutton Gravity feels like it strayed from one of the summer blockbuster screens into TIFF where adult dramas herald the next Oscar season. None of this matters, because Gravity is an amazing thriller about two American…
by allan tong for FILMbutton Fading Gigolo was one of this year’s TIFF films that had buyers buzzing…until they saw it. Noted actor John Turturro writes and directs this starring vehicle for himself who becomes a high-price callboy for upscale…
by allan tong for FILMbutton One of the slickest thrillers to ever come out of South Korea is Cold Eyes. A squad of high-tech surveillance cops follow members of a gang of ruthless bank robbers around Seoul. The pretty and…
from vkpr OPENS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 AT THE BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA “A masterfully crafted story of two men whose lives intersect through the burdens of war, Unclaimed is emotionally riveting and an inspirational example of what strangers do…
by shael stolberg Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate will open the 38th Annual Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 5th, 2013. The film is a dramatization of Julian Assange the founder of Wikileaks. The cast of the film includes…
