Shane Slater
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INTERVIEW: Saoirse Ronan
One of my highlights of TIFF this year was the opportunity to sit down with Saoirse Ronan to discuss her new film "Brooklyn", as part of Fox Searchlight’s... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Embrace of the Serpent
As TIFF 2015 comes to a close, my festival experience ended on an ethereal high with an outstanding Colombian film. Directed by Ciro Guerra, "Embrace of the... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: A Heavy Heart
In a general sense, films are made to provoke happiness, fright, thought or sadness. As its title suggests, "A Heavy Heart" mostly falls into the latter... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Spear
Before the relatively recent invention of cinema, the most popular modes of artistic entertainment comprised dance, music and theatre. Since the birth of... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Stranger
Famine. War. Death. The premise of Yermek Tursunov’s lastest film "Stranger", probably won’t send you skipping merrily out of the theaters. Read more
Posted on 18 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: River
Cinema has long been a great tool for cross-cultural discourse, with co-productions between national film industries becoming increasingly prevalent. One such... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: The Wave & The Paradise Suite
On Day 5 of TIFF 2015, I was able to catch up with two more Foreign Oscar submissions. The first was Norway’s entry The Wave and the other was the Dutch... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Downriver
The TIFF website succinctly describes its Discovery section as "Directors to watch. The future of world cinema". Hailing from Down Under is a film that perfectl... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Truth
In case you didn’t already know, Cate Blanchett is one of the finest actors working in the business today. As if her lauded performance in Cannes darling Carol... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Girls Lost
Themes of gender and sexuality are having a big moment in American cinema this year, with the likes of "About Ray", "Stonewall" and "Freeheld" about to hit... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: I Saw the Light
On the strength of "Love & Mercy" and "Straight Outta Compton" this summer, it would have been easy to declare 2015 the year of the musician biopic. Read more
Posted on 13 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Brooklyn
In our cynical age of contemporary cinema, purely sentimental depictions of true love are hard to pull off and rarely attempted. Read more
Posted on 12 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Demolition
Through the success of his Oscar-nominated films "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Wild", Quebecois filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée has cultivated a reputation for compellin... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Ixcanul & The Assassin
For my first day of TIFF 2015, I watched a pair of foreign language Oscar submissions from Guatemala and Taiwan. Both similarly feature female protagonists,... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
TIFF: Preview
At this very moment, I'm waiting to board a flight to embark on another adventure. As of next week my bucket list will be one item short, as I finally attend th... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
COMING SOON: The Oscar Slate
Is it just me, or did awards season come back around really quickly? It seems like just yesterday that "Birdman" was anointed with the Best Picture prize and... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
MOVIE OF THE WEEK/OSCAR WATCH: Love & Mercy
The Beach Boys, the band behind such classic pop rock hits as "Good Vibrations" and "Surfin' U.S.A.", have come to represent the ideal of the carefree lifestyle... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT: Mad Max: Fury Road
For this week's special Monday edition of Hit me with your best shot, Nathaniel clearly lost his damn mind and had us screencap "Mad Max: Fury Road". Read more
Posted on 07 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
OSCAR WATCH: Mad Max: Fury Road
A few months back, George Miller took the film world by storm with a revamp of the franchise that kick-started his career. The film, "Mad Mad: Fury Road", was a... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
OSCAR WATCH: Ex Machina
We may still be a few months away from the barrage of end-of-year critics awards, but there's already one film I suspect will stake a claim for numerous Best... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES