Adriana Floridia
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The Medium Rants About: Oscars Nominations
An Oscar is the highest honour for anyone involved in the film industry. It validates filmmakers, actors, actresses, writers, and so on, as the...
Lightbox lineup
It has been just over a year since the TIFF Bell Lightbox opened, but it has asserted itself as one of the best theatres...
Yellow Face addresses race
David Henry Hwang’s semi-autobiographical, semi-fictional play Yellow Face asks a lot of racially-charged questions, but in a very comical way. It places the playwright...
All that glitters is not gold
After a very predictable awards season, the Oscars did nothing much to spice things up. Hollywood’s most important night was big and beautiful, but...
Just go watch it ★★★
Adam Sandler’s new comedy is one very tangled web of lies. The comedian is known for his “stupid-funny” films, and while Just Go With...
A win-win situation
Meaningless sex should be easier than how it’s portrayed in the movies, but if that were the case, there wouldn’t be much of a...
You always hurt the ones you love
A devastatingly honest and realistic portrayal of a decaying marriage, Blue Valentine hits you where it hurts. It profoundly analyzes the relationship between Dean...
The Fighter doesn’t mess around
“I started a joke, which started the whole world crying, but I didn’t see that the joke was on me—oh no,” sing Christian Bale...
Bored? It’s anything but boring
Just out of a relationship, the frequently intoxicated Jonathan Ames is down and out and doesn’t know what to do. His writing career is...
The Medium Rants About: Oscars Nominations
An Oscar is the highest honour for anyone involved in the film industry. It validates filmmakers, actors, actresses, writers, and so on, as the...
Lightbox lineup
It has been just over a year since the TIFF Bell Lightbox opened, but it has asserted itself as one of the best theatres...
Yellow Face addresses race
David Henry Hwang’s semi-autobiographical, semi-fictional play Yellow Face asks a lot of racially-charged questions, but in a very comical way. It places the playwright...
All that glitters is not gold
After a very predictable awards season, the Oscars did nothing much to spice things up. Hollywood’s most important night was big and beautiful, but...
Just go watch it ★★★
Adam Sandler’s new comedy is one very tangled web of lies. The comedian is known for his “stupid-funny” films, and while Just Go With...
A win-win situation
Meaningless sex should be easier than how it’s portrayed in the movies, but if that were the case, there wouldn’t be much of a...
You always hurt the ones you love
A devastatingly honest and realistic portrayal of a decaying marriage, Blue Valentine hits you where it hurts. It profoundly analyzes the relationship between Dean...
The Fighter doesn’t mess around
“I started a joke, which started the whole world crying, but I didn’t see that the joke was on me—oh no,” sing Christian Bale...
Bored? It’s anything but boring
Just out of a relationship, the frequently intoxicated Jonathan Ames is down and out and doesn’t know what to do. His writing career is...