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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
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Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
Submit your Documentary Short Film to the Festival Today: http://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
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 DYING FOR A LIVING, 13min., UK, DocumentaryWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
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 CITY OF MY HEART, 4min., Greece, Documentary WATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
 21ST CENTURY HERMIT, 3min., UK, Documentary WATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
 DEAR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, 4min., UK, Documentary/WarWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
Movie Reviews of films that will be playing at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2018. Go to TIFF 2018 Movie Reviews and read reviews of films showing at the festival.
Ray Wright (screenplay by), Neil Jordan (screenplay by)| 1 more credit »
Some films are best if seen without any prior knowledge of the plot. Neil Jordan’s GRETA is one of them. As in Jordan’s THE CRYING GAME, the shock occurs when the girl the protagonist is having sex with suddenly is shown with a penis. The big surprise secret comes literally out of the closet at the 30-minus mark of Jordan’s latest psychological thriller GRETA.
Set in NYC, Isabelle Huppert plays a widow developing a friendship with a naïve young woman, Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz). Frances returns the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner, Greta (Huppert). Frances recently lost her mother and feels alienated by her father; Greta has lost her husband, and her daughter lives far away. The two become fast friends much to the consternation of her best friend (Maika Monroe).
Unfortunately, the film ends with a totally unlikely twist in the plot that could only happen in a one in a million chance. This spoils an otherwise excellent thriller.
Movie Reviews of films that will be playing at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2018. Go to TIFF 2018 Movie Reviews and read reviews of films showing at the festival.
Writer/director Henry Dunham’s debut feature tackles a series of current issues – gun control; violence; loyalty among others. The film begins with the announcement of a mass shooting, not shown on screen, an incident unfortunately too common these days. The cops are all out to find those responsible, being under great pressure from everyone.
The story centres of a neighbourhood militia that have an assortment of weaponry. It is discovered that the recent mass shooting was apparently carried out by one of its own members as one of the AR-15 rifles (reportedly used in the shooting) stored in a lumberyard warehouse is missing. Fearing that the authorities have already connected the weapon to their collective and will soon descend, they resolve to determine who among them has broken ranks, so that they can deliver the perpetrator to the police and not risk jeopardizing their operation.
The film has little action and lots of talk. Most of the excitement comes in the revelation of the dialogue. Of course, if the whole film relies on the dialogue, it should be flawless. But there are a few loop holes. The audience is also required to be 100% attentive to the dialogue while expecting a few plot twists. A few bouts of humour are inserted (there should be more), but all the talk seems too much for a Midnight Madness movie.
Movie Reviews of films that will be playing at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2018. Go to TIFF 2018 Movie Reviews and read reviews of films showing at the festival.
Nicole Holofcener, Ted Thompson (based on the novel by)
THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS is another NETFLIX original and not a bad one at that. The film is set in Westport, Connecticut. One can only speculate the reason this one did not get made through the normal channels. This is a story of a middle-aged man who has left metaphorically the land of steady habits.
Anders Hill (Ben Mendelsohn) has quit his well paying job and divorced his life – the protagonist, like the film going against the natural flow of things. He figures life will be more rewarding but things get worse. When the film opens, he has just picked up a woman and having sex. Besides not being able to get it up, his adult son Preston (Thomas Mann) rejects him. Oddly enough, he bonds and smokes up with the neighbours drug-culled son Charlie (Charlie Tahan).
When Charlie commits suicide, Anders is blamed. Holofcener (ENOUGH SAID) is good at this kind of films. She gets into her characters and keeps her film well paced, intelligent and smart.
A PLACE IN THE CITY, 18min., USA, LGBT/Documentary
THE LOVE INDUSTRY, 20min., USA, LGBT/Documentary
OH! UGANDA, 5min., Uganda, Animation/Documentary
LAND OF MINE, 4min., Germany, Experimental 
SOUNDS OF FREEDOM, 5min, USA, TV WEB SERIES/Drama
PROJECT 1948, 13min., Bosnia, Documentary
REMAND, 40min., Uganda, Documentary
THE UNDERGROUND ARTIST, USA, 3min., Documentary
MOTHERS & METHADONE, 11min, Canada, Documentary
WILDLAND, 25min., USA, Documentary
HANDS, 6min., UK, Experimental/Dance
THE BUS TRIP, 13min., Sweden, Animation
SUNDAY DINNER, 15min., USA, Documentary
SCORCHED: MINE FIRES IN PENNSYLVANIA COAL COUNTRY, 6min., USA, Documentary
A GOOD BLINDER, 26min., USA, Documentary
ALL FALLS DOWN, 6min., USA, Experimental/Documentary
NIGHT LIVE, 7min., China, Experimental/New Media 
FOR THE LOVE OF THE CHILD, 38min., USA, Documentary
PLEASURE BOYS, 8min., UK, Documentary
FACE BLIND, 4min., CAN, Documentary 
FRONTLINE FENTANYL, 23min., CAN, Documentary 
SUNUNU: THE REVOLUTION OF LOVE, 24min., UK, Documentary
ONE MAGAZINE AT A TIME, 4min., USA, Documentary
BREATHE, 4min., USA, Documentary
THE CRYING CHEF, 6min., USA, Comedy
AN ACTOR PREPARES, 4min., USA, Comedy
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