Author: Jason Whyte

More Canada represent at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival! Another movie that I felt was overlooked at TIFF this year is the Toronto feature YOUNG WERTHER which has a really cool concept. The TIFF Lowdown: Inspired by the popular 1770s novella The Sorrows of Young Werther, this modernization stars Douglas Booth and Alison Pill in […]

Trust me, this movie is more funny than sad! I was so happy to see SAD JOKES at TIFF as part of my “Throw A Dart, Take A Chance” portion of watching movies by attending a screening knowing NOTHING about it going in. The TIFF Lowdown: Set in Berlin, this tender, tragicomical second feature from […]

Part of the TIFF Docs section of the Toronto International Film Festival, I was excited to see Marah Strauch’s new doc, after wowing me many years ago with SUNSHINE SUPERMAN, a doc that opened TIFF Docs back in 2014. The TIFF Lowdown: You may not know the name Joe Jennings, but you’ve surely seen his […]

The TIFF Lowdown: The debut feature from Fredericton filmmaker Arianna Martinez is easier to experience than describe. It’s a multiverse picture without a single visual effect, unless you count the actors. Several years after their meet-cute — at a wedding, of course — Olive (Caroline Bell) and Benny (Ian Ottis Goff) are spending an entirely […]

As part of the Special Presentations section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, SHEPHERDS was very high on my list of movies to check out as I was a huge fan of filmmaker Sophie Deraspe’s ANTIGONE and VITAL SIGNS, both of which I saw at Whistler and the respective South By Southwest Film Festival […]

Do you wonder what actor Crispin Glover is up to these days? He was in a new movie at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and not many people noticed! Read on. The TIFF Lowdown: Crispin Glover brings his best to Tallulah H Schwab’s delightfully Kafkaesque tale of a travelling magician who finds himself in […]

I was thrilled to be able to see Sook Yin-Lee’s new movie PAYING FOR IT, as I have been a long time supporter of her work ever since admiring her work as a MuchMusic VJ, her acting and directing work over the years. It’s so wonderful to see her work continue with a new feature […]

Another solid Canadian feature at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival is SEEDS, the latest work from filmmaker Kaniehtiio Horn, no stranger to Canadian and American cinema. The TIFF Lowdown: Kaniehtiio Horn (Alice, Darling, TIFF ’22) wrote, directed, and stars in Seeds, a tense thriller that weaves Kanienʼkehá꞉ka connections to the land with a cat-and-mouse game. […]

The 2024 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival starts today. This is my ninth year attending TIFF and I wouldn’t even say I am a regular at this point. Film camp is heavy this year in Toronto with the likes of Mike Leigh, Steven Soderbergh, Brady Corbet, Sean Baker and many, many other established […]