TIFF
Jump
Kieron J. Walsh
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2012
Initially, Jump (an Irish variation on Doug Liman's Go) makes the mistake of throwing its message out there without any context. Dressed as...
Blackbird
Jason Buxton
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2012
Relying mostly on his performers and the story, Blackbird (Jason Buxton's surprisingly adept feature film debut) tackles the hot button iss...
Painless
Juan Carlos Medina
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2012
Taking place in both present day and the dawn of the Spanish Civil War, this highly allegorical and ineffective horror-thriller of sorts po...
Ginger & Rosa
Sally Potter
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2012
Navigating the sexually-charged and politically-shifting dynamic of '60s London, England, best friends Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alic...
Byzantium
Neil Jordan
PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2012
Sexy vampires don't have to be stupid or ridiculous. Both the genre and Neil Jordan benefit from the Interview With a Vampire director's re...
The Brass Teapot
Ramaa Mosley
PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2012
First-time feature director Ramaa Mosley expands her prior short film into an affectionately silly and nastily funny modern fable concernin...
Shahid
Hansal Mehta
PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2012
Yet another example of asperous, naturalistic, energized filmmaking from this year's City-to-City program at TIFF, Shahid, the true story o...
I Declare War
Jason Lapeyre & Robert Wilson
PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2012
The rules in war are simple: two teams set up camp with a respective flag that the opposing team needs to capture to win. If anyone is shot...