Articles by Matthew Ritchie

TIFF 2017: Kodachrome

Directed by Mark Raso

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2017

Copenhagen director Mark Raso's second feature film wishes it were steeped in the tangible mediums of a more meaningful past, but it feels...

Brad's Status

Directed by Mike White

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2017

Comedic actor Ben Stiller successfully showed off some middle-aged angst in Noah Baumbach's 2014 TIFF selection While We're Young, and he's...

Queens of the Stone Age

Budweiser Stage, Toronto ON, September 9

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2017

"Anybody got a knife?" Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme asked the nearly sold out crowd at the Budweiser Stage two songs into th...

TIFF 2017: The Ritual

Directed by David Bruckner

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2017

Much like Midnight Madness selection Kill List before it, anthology series (V/H/S and Southbound) collaborator David Bruckner's debut featu...

Stronger

Directed by David Gordon Green

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2017

Movies about recent history tend to be tough for even the most established filmmakers to make — often the societal and cultural impacts hav...

TIFF 2017: Borg/McEnroe

Directed by Janus Metz

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2017

One of two tennis movies hitting the Toronto International Film Festival this year, Borg/McEnroe finds former child star-turned-Hollywood-b...

The Cast of 'IT' Talk Toronto, the 1980s and How They're Not Hurting the Clown Industry

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2017

Back in the fall of 1990, Stephen King's 1,100-plus-page horror novel IT was given the miniseries treatment over at ABC. Rocky Horror Pictu...

Mogwai

Every Country's Sun

PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2017

One of the reasons Mogwai's Rave Tapes was such a success (it was the top selling UK vinyl records released in 2014) had to do with its ton...