In ‘The Bikeriders,’ director Jeff Nichols embarks on a unique cinematic journey, adapting Danny Lyon’s 1968 photography book, a seminal work documenting the lives of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. This adaptation, with its rich visual and thematic inspiration, sets the film apart. However, the film often finds itself at a crossroads, struggling to maintain […]
By: Dustin ChaseThe international component of The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF23)has vast offerings and really traversed the map on day two of the festival. Day 2 of TIFF23, has another replay from Cannes earlier this year and the likely submission from Italy for the Academy Awards international submission. “Kidnapped” (Rapito) is an operatic-style drama detailing
This romanticized fabrication of the cancer experience is likely to dismay those who have actually gone through it—especially when the patient is a child. As someone who worked in a cancer center in Pediatrics as a psychologist for almost 25 years, I found little in the film that resembles any of the hundreds of families I