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Cons and Heists of TIFF 2025: ‘Tuner,’ ‘Fuze,’ ‘Carolina Caroline,’ ‘Little Lorraine’

September 13, 2025 by Joe Lipsett

One of the common narrative tropes that turned up at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival were films centered around con artists and heists. 

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Filed Under: Film Reviews, Toronto International Film Festival Tagged With: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Adam Carter Rehmeier, andy hines, auden thorton, Daniel Roher, David McKenzie, dustin hoffman, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Havana Rose Liu, j balvin, Jon Gries, joshua close, Kyle Gallner, Kyra Sedgwick, leo woodall, rhys darby, Sam Worthington, Samara Weaving, Stephen Amell, Stephen McHattie, Steve Lund, Theo James

The Bridge review – 1×12: ‘All About Eva’

September 26, 2013 by Joe Lipsett

Courtesy of FX

After weeks of unfortunate serial killer revenge drama, The Bridge rights the ship with a return to plotting and characters that we fell in love with back when the series began.

Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]

Filed Under: The Bridge, TV Tagged With: Annabeth Gish, Demián Bichir, Diane Kruger, Emily Rios, Eric Lange, FX, Jon Gries, Juan Carlos Cantu, Matthew Lillard, Ramón Franco, Stephanie Sigman, Ted Levine, Thomas M. Wright

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

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