I’ve got to be honest, I wasn’t expecting much when I went to start this film. Something about the premise seemed too simple to me and I had basically set myself up to know how this story was going to be told before even starting. To my surprise, Prevenge managed to subvert my expectations to …
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Hulu Review – ‘Run’
Diane (Sarah Paulson) and Chloe (Kiera Allen), shown.(Photo by: Allen Fraser/Hulu) Director Aneesh Chaganty’s first two films have a common theme: parenting gone wrong. Where ‘Searching’ followed a father in search of his missing daughter, visionary shown through the use of social media and screens that can be found all over the house, his newest …
TIFF20 Review – ‘True Mothers’
Naomi Kawase’s melodramatic adaptation of a novel by Mizuki Tsujimura, is directed with finesse, but relies too heavily on PSA-style storytelling that rather explores the past than the present with situations that miss their mark in trying to establish a real emotional force. After trying to conceive for a while, a Japanese couple undergo tests. …