TIFF 2023 has come to a close, and it was another eventful year for festivalgoers. This year’s festival may have lacked the abundance of A-list talent of past years, but TIFF’s slate of films still delivered. Eleven days isn’t nearly enough time to take in all the must-see screenings the festival offers. Several titles …
TIFF 2022 REVIEW Seventeen-year-old movie snob Lawrence Kweller eats, breathes, and dreams about films. He’s in his final year of high school and plans to attend NYU’s prestigious film program. But here’s the catch: Lawrence lacks the technical and social skills to cut it at film school. But these little details won’t stop a world-class …
After ten days and two dozen movies, Sundance 2022 is a wrap for me. On Sunday evening, That Shelf’s film critics joined up for a post-festival roundtable. Our 90-minute touches on what it’s like covering a virtual festival, Sundance’s knockout documentary line-up, as well as the films that blew us away (or broke our brains). …
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When You Finish Saving the World Quicktake: Well-written, Funny, Great Performances What should we make of people who do the right thing for the wrong reasons? Would their karmic score be net positive or negative in the universe’s grand scheme? Life is messy and complicated, and sometimes good people do bad things. And as we …
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Emergency Quicktake: Pensive, Charming & Surprisingly Intense Sean (RJ Cyler) and Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) are two best friends and college roommates about to have the night of their lives. It’s the start of spring break, and the duo has planned a legendary seven-stop frat party crawl. But circumstances derail their night before the party …
The 46th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 2021) may have wrapped Saturday night, but the party didn’t stop. The team of cinephiles over at That Shelf assembled Wednesday evening for a much-needed debrief to dish on our festival favourites. With over a hundred virtual and in-person movies screening at TIFF 2021, nobody was …
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Dug Dug Quicktake: A Funny, Stylish, & Unapologetic Social Satire Let it be said, Dug Dug director Ritwik Pareek puts the motion in motion pictures. Pareek delivers an irreverent look at religious worship wrapped up in a mouth-watering buffet of sights and sounds. This stylish TIFF 2021 delight works as a subversive social commentary and …
