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#RentalFamily hires a token American to fulfill Japanese strangers' basic human connections 🏯 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/3MdAbx6
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Remtal Family (dir. Hikari) x VIFF 2025.
Brendan Fraser stars as a lonely American ex-pat actor hired to fill various roles in Japanese strangers' lives. It's a bittersweet cross-cultural dramedy that...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
#RentalFamily hires a token American to fulfill Japanese strangers' basic human connections 🏯 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/3MdAbx6
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#WickedForGood defiantly yet fittingly concludes its two-part 🫧 blockbuster musical fantasy epic bit.ly/wickedfg
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#WickedForGood defiantly yet fittingly concludes its two-part 🫧 blockbuster musical fantasy epic bit.ly/wickedfg
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Shakespearean tragedy #Hamnet grieves a devastatingly emotional period drama about the inspiration of parenthood 🕯️ at @tiffnet.bsky.social bit.ly/ham-net
REEL | Grieving the Shakespearean Tragedy of 'Hamnet' x TIFF 2025
Hamnet Movie Review
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November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Shakespearean tragedy #Hamnet grieves a devastatingly emotional period drama about the inspiration of parenthood 🕯️ at @tiffnet.bsky.social bit.ly/ham-net
#WickedForGood defiantly yet fittingly concludes its two-part 🫧 blockbuster musical fantasy epic bit.ly/wickedfg
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#WickedForGood defiantly yet fittingly concludes its two-part 🫧 blockbuster musical fantasy epic bit.ly/wickedfg
Shakespearean tragedy #Hamnet grieves a devastatingly emotional period drama about the inspiration of parenthood 🕯️ at @tiffnet.bsky.social bit.ly/ham-net
REEL | Grieving the Shakespearean Tragedy of 'Hamnet' x TIFF 2025
Hamnet Movie Review
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November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Shakespearean tragedy #Hamnet grieves a devastatingly emotional period drama about the inspiration of parenthood 🕯️ at @tiffnet.bsky.social bit.ly/ham-net
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'Chad Powers' starring @glenpowell.bsky.social tries the underdog football comedy 🏈 but inspired by 'Mrs. Doubtfire' tmblr.co/ZhuNXyiRjJbE...
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Chad Powers (prod. Michael Waldron).
Co-creator Glen Powell stars as the titular disgraced college football quarterback, based on producer Eli Manning's one-off ESPN prank character, riffing on the...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
'Chad Powers' starring @glenpowell.bsky.social tries the underdog football comedy 🏈 but inspired by 'Mrs. Doubtfire' tmblr.co/ZhuNXyiRjJbE...
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'Left-Handed Girl' offers the same street-level human interest touchstones from Sean Baker's other films, only set in Taipei 🍜 at @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/3WTv9bt
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Left-Handed Girl (dir. Shih-Ching Tsou) x VIFF 2025.
Produced, edited, and co-written by three-time Academy Away-winner Sean Baker, the working-class Taiwanese family drama about a single-mother, who....
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November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
'Left-Handed Girl' offers the same street-level human interest touchstones from Sean Baker's other films, only set in Taipei 🍜 at @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/3WTv9bt
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Totalitarian action remake @runningmanmovie.com hunts down 🏃♂️ a haphazardly misguided reality game show satire bit.ly/3JKSQQe
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The Running Man (dir. Edgar Wright).
There are so many clumsily misguided pro-worker, anti-fascist elements in the second film adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 dystopian game show novel about a...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Totalitarian action remake @runningmanmovie.com hunts down 🏃♂️ a haphazardly misguided reality game show satire bit.ly/3JKSQQe
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#Eternity chooses a bittersweet afterlife love triangle romantic comedy 🚉 at @tiffnet.bsky.social bit.ly/eter-nity
REEL | 'Eternity' Chooses A Bittersweet Afterlife x TIFF 2025
Eternity Movie Review
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November 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
#Eternity chooses a bittersweet afterlife love triangle romantic comedy 🚉 at @tiffnet.bsky.social bit.ly/eter-nity
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#Hedda stars a magnetic Tessa Thompson in a richly bold new take of the socialite tale 👗 at @tiffnet.bsky.social tmblr.co/ZhuNXyiQGxd3...
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Hedda (dir. Nia DaCosta) x TIFF 2025.
Tessa Thompson perfects her lethally withering glare, starring as Ibsen's reminagined nineteenth-century Norwegian stage character, the eponymous bored socialite,...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#Hedda stars a magnetic Tessa Thompson in a richly bold new take of the socialite tale 👗 at @tiffnet.bsky.social tmblr.co/ZhuNXyiQGxd3...
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Touring the immersive #HarryPotter: A Forbidden Forest Experience 🧙♂️ in Stanley Park bit.ly/hp-forest
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Touring the immersive #HarryPotter: A Forbidden Forest Experience 🧙♂️ in Stanley Park bit.ly/hp-forest
#Eternity chooses a bittersweet afterlife love triangle romantic comedy 🚉 at @tiffnet.bsky.social bit.ly/eter-nity
REEL | 'Eternity' Chooses A Bittersweet Afterlife x TIFF 2025
Eternity Movie Review
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November 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
#Eternity chooses a bittersweet afterlife love triangle romantic comedy 🚉 at @tiffnet.bsky.social bit.ly/eter-nity
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Get frosty for the Arts Club's chilly production of Disney's #FrozenMusical ❄️ on South Granville bit.ly/froz-en
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Disney's Frozen x Stanley BFL Canada Stage x South Granville. (via Mark Halliday)
Arts Club's restaging has the challenging task of trying its best to live up to the high production values of the...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Get frosty for the Arts Club's chilly production of Disney's #FrozenMusical ❄️ on South Granville bit.ly/froz-en
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#Tuner cracks a charmingly entertaining piano-themed heist drama 🎹 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/tu-ner
VIFF 2025 | Leo Woodall Cracks the Right 'Tuner'
Tuner Movie Review
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November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
#Tuner cracks a charmingly entertaining piano-themed heist drama 🎹 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/tu-ner
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Jennifer Lawrence goes completely feral in the nightmarish postpartum 👩🍼 psychological relationship drama 'Die My Love' bit.ly/die-mylove
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Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay).
Much of the postpartum psychological drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson as newlyweds with a newborn feels like a nightmarish fever dream of feral...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Jennifer Lawrence goes completely feral in the nightmarish postpartum 👩🍼 psychological relationship drama 'Die My Love' bit.ly/die-mylove
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'Predator: Badlands' starring a synthetic Elle Fanning 🏹 offers some relentlessly brutal sci-fi combat action bit.ly/bad-lands
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Predator: Badlands (dir. Dan Trachtenberg).
Adding elements from the Alien franchise, this expanded Predator is the first to focus squarely on one of the extraterrestrial hunters as the protagonist...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
'Predator: Badlands' starring a synthetic Elle Fanning 🏹 offers some relentlessly brutal sci-fi combat action bit.ly/bad-lands
#Tuner cracks a charmingly entertaining piano-themed heist drama 🎹 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/tu-ner
VIFF 2025 | Leo Woodall Cracks the Right 'Tuner'
Tuner Movie Review
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November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
#Tuner cracks a charmingly entertaining piano-themed heist drama 🎹 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/tu-ner
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'Who Killed the @montrealexpos.bsky.social?' tries to solve the bad economics ⚾️ of small-market Major League Baseball tmblr.co/ZhuNXyiNlFi7...
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Who Killed the Montreal Expos? (dir. Jean-François Poisson).
Netflix's bilingual documentary about the sadly long-gone but not forgotten French-Canadian Major League Baseball franchise offers a...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
'Who Killed the @montrealexpos.bsky.social?' tries to solve the bad economics ⚾️ of small-market Major League Baseball tmblr.co/ZhuNXyiNlFi7...
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'Anniversary' pledges an aloof dystopian political family drama 🇺🇸 that mirrors our rising fascism tmblr.co/ZhuNXyiNU5Rl...
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Anniversary (dir. Jan Komasa).
Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler star in the tense, dystopian political thriller about an affluent Washington family being penetrated by their son's (Dylan O'Brien) new...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
'Anniversary' pledges an aloof dystopian political family drama 🇺🇸 that mirrors our rising fascism tmblr.co/ZhuNXyiNU5Rl...
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'Mile End Kicks' hilariously relives a 2011 hot girl Montreal summer during the indie sleaze music scene 💿 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/3VXlakW
VIFF 2025 | 'Mile End Kicks' Relives the Age of Indie Sleaze
Mile End Kicks Movie Review
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November 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
'Mile End Kicks' hilariously relives a 2011 hot girl Montreal summer during the indie sleaze music scene 💿 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/3VXlakW
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Emma Stone kidnaps #Bugonia – another absurdist conspiratorial 🍯 black comedy of alienating dread bit.ly/bug-onia
REEL | Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Abduct 'Bugonia'
Bugonia Movie Review
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October 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Emma Stone kidnaps #Bugonia – another absurdist conspiratorial 🍯 black comedy of alienating dread bit.ly/bug-onia
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Cocktails and snacks from Social 🥟 on Commercial Drive bit.ly/4og5i9r
November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Cocktails and snacks from Social 🥟 on Commercial Drive bit.ly/4og5i9r
'Mile End Kicks' hilariously relives a 2011 hot girl Montreal summer during the indie sleaze music scene 💿 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/3VXlakW
VIFF 2025 | 'Mile End Kicks' Relives the Age of Indie Sleaze
Mile End Kicks Movie Review
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November 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
'Mile End Kicks' hilariously relives a 2011 hot girl Montreal summer during the indie sleaze music scene 💿 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/3VXlakW