Tiff 2016

[Don Draper]

So. what are you watching...?

The Handmaiden

Julieta

Birth of a Nation

Arrival

The Age of Shadows

....the list goes on an on.....

 

[Don Draper]

I'll tell you one thing about TIFF that doesn't have a complete attachment to film:
that King Street promenade is heaven sent when it comes to meeting women!!! It's ten days of shooting fish in a barrel.

If any of my esteemed colleagues wants a place to get something started, this is the place (and no, I'm not talking about only meeting Asian women.) Easy as can be to start a conversation.

I've met four beautiful and interesting women in the past three days and these encounters will continue long after TIFF is over.

 

[Insidious Von]

Netflix has bought the rights from the BBC to Black Mirror.

They are showcasing the premiere episode tonight. Black Mirror is the cult hit that spawned Mr Robot. It's a show about a dystopian near future obsessed with technology. It's not a sequential series, each story presented is a stand alone made for TV film. And it's stories are derived from Orwell and Huxley among others. The premiere episode goes tonight, Nosedive starring Bryce Dallas Howard.

 

[Insidious Von]

There is a big void in this year's TIFF, neither Miss Sloane nor Silence are being showcased. Both have Christmas release dates.

Miss Sloane, returns Jessica Chastain into the eye of the storm. She plays a Washington lobbyist who does an about face on the NRA after a mass killing spree.

Silence is Martin Scorsese's passion project about Jesuit Missionaries in Shogunate Japan. Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver are the English speaking leads. The rest of the cast is made up of Japanese actors.

This could be a big year for the ex-Spiderman:

 

[Insidious Von]

Mel Gibson is making a comeback:

 

[Insidious Von]

So the trailer to Miss Sloane is out.

I can understand why it's not previewed at TIFF, don't give the naysayers any ammunition before the film is released. It will either bomb heinously or win JC her Oscar.