Author: Jason Whyte

As part of the Centerpiece section, this is one of the many animated features playing at TIFF 2025. It seems that after FLOW and THE WILD ROBOT last year, it was a reminder of the demand for animation at TIFF! About: Based on Amélie Nothomb’s bestselling novel The Character of Rain, the magical animated feature Little Amélie […]

A SIMPLE SOLDIER is part of TIFF Docs this year, a wonderful part of the festival that is programmed by Thom Powers and team. This is one of the many solid docs that I covered in Toronto this year! About: A Simple Soldier is rooted in Ukraine’s current tragedy of war, but it has the power […]

Part of the Gala Presentations at TIFF this year, I was an easy sell with A PRIVATE LIFE, Jodie Foster and the promise that this was a french-speaking role for one of my favourite actors of all time.  About: Academy Award winner Jodie Foster stars in this scintillating, slyly comic psychological thriller from French director […]

One of the biggest Special Presentation titles this year was NO OTHER CHOICE, the latest feature from acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-Wook who needs no introduction to film fans across the globe! About: Park Chan-wook, last at the Festival with the acclaimed Decision To Leave (’22), is a master of incisive, darkly comic tales. Featuring megastar Lee Byung […]

About: A strange death, village upheavals, and swarming suitors lead to a love story gone awry in acclaimed Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s latest enthralling imagining of ancient Inuit stories. Celebrated Inuk director Zacharias Kunuk returns to the Festival with his latest offering, a captivating, epic, historical drama about an arranged marriage, set 4,000 years ago. […]

As part of the Discovery section at this year’s TIFF, I was happy to see a screening of GHOST SCHOOL, one of the more overlooked titles at the festival. About: When 10-year-old Rabia (Nazualiya Arsalan) discovers her school has abruptly closed, she sets out to uncover the truth behind the eerie rumours swirling through her […]

Go Canada! I attended the World Premiere of Chandler Levack’s MILE END KICKS at the Royal Alexandra Theatre at the Toronto International Film Festival. Chandler is a big force on social media and a VERY hard-working filmmaker (last I checked she was also directing a Netflix movie for Adam Sandler) and it was wonderful to […]

About: An impassioned and insightful rebuttal to the assumptions, misconceptions, and faulty representations that surround sex work and sex workers, Modern Whore may also be the most audacious and engaging movie ever made about the oldest profession. Successfully expanding on their 2020 short film and book of the same name, director Nicole Bazuin and subject and co-writer […]

This is part of the Discovery section of TIFF, with THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT already coming soon to Hulu in the US and Disney+ in Canada. About: When a mysterious man (Willem Dafoe) approaches Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins) to rent his basement for a generous sum, Blakey is drawn into a chilling reality involving […]