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[TIFF Review] ‘A Banquet’ Is A Captivating Domestic Horror Film

September 13, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

A woman holds down a teenage girl in bed

Ruth Paxton has created a domestic nightmare based around grating sensory experiences.

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Filed Under: Horror Film Reviews, Toronto International Film Festival Tagged With: Jessica Alexander, Kaine Zajaz, Lindsay Duncan, Ruby Stokes, Ruth Paxton, Sienna Guillory

Adrien Brody’s ‘Clean’ is no ‘John Wick’ [Tribeca Review]

June 23, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

What happens when you take the race and class politics of a 70s & 80s Charles Bronson revenge thriller and cross it with a touch of John Wick? You get Paul Solet’s Clean.

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Filed Under: Tribeca Tagged With: adrien brody, clean, Glenn Fleshler, Mykelti Williamson, paul solet, rza, tribeca 2021

‘My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To’ [Tribeca Review]

June 21, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

The opening of My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To perfectly sets the stage for the nightmare to come.

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Filed Under: Tribeca Tagged With: Ingrid Sophie Schram, Jonathan Cuartas, Owen Campbell, Patrick Fugit, tribeca 2021

Solving ‘Ultrasound’s Puzzle is Half the Fun [Tribeca Review]

June 18, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

Ultrasound throws its audience into the deep end with a triptych of stories that are destined to cross paths.

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Filed Under: Tribeca Tagged With: Breeda Wool, Chelsea Lopez, Conor Stechschulte, Rob Schroeder, ultrasound, Vincent Kartheiser

‘No Man of God’ [Tribeca Review]

June 14, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

Based on a series of interviews, No Man of God follows real life criminal profiler Bill Hagmaier (Elijah Wood)’s relationship with Ted Bundy (Luke Kirby), as the pair met regularly for the last few years of the latter’s life as he awaited execution in a Florida State Prison.

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Filed Under: Tribeca Tagged With: Aleksa Palladino, Amber Sealey, c robert cargill, elijah wood, Luke Kirby, ted bundy, tribeca 2021

‘Someone Like Me’ Is A Muddled Look At The Queer Refugee Experience [Hot Docs Review]

May 8, 2021 by Joe Lipsett

‘Someone Like Me’ portrays a year in the life of a group of LGBTQIA Canadians as they sponsor and support a gay Ugandan refugee in Vancouver, Canada.

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Filed Under: Hot Docs Tagged With: hot docs, LGBT, national film board, nfb, queer

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The 411 on me

I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

Words:
> Bloody Disgusting
> /Film
> Consequence
> The Spool
> Anatomy of a Scream
> Grim Journal
> That Shelf

Podcasts:
> Horror Queers
> Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

Recent Posts

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