Josh Anderson

Information Architect, Movie Watcher


Canada

  • [TIFF 2024] The Cut

    [TIFF 2024] The Cut

    The Cut stars Orlando Bloom as a nameless boxer who needs to lose about 30 pounds within 6 days in order to qualify for a rare chance at a comeback. Continue reading

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  • [TIFF 2024] Seeds

    [TIFF 2024] Seeds

    Seeds is an “influencer horror” film about a woman who takes a lucrative sponsorship gig from a big-time seed company, only to learn that things aren’t as innocent as they seem. Continue reading

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  • Movies I Saw at Hot Docs 2024

    Movies I Saw at Hot Docs 2024

    A little over a month ago, I attended the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival for the first time. There was a wide variety of subject matter, and I appreciated that most (every?) showing included filmmaker Q&As after the credits. I’ll go again next year, as long as the festival’s apparent financial woes don’t tank Continue reading

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  • From the River to the Dean’s Office

    From the River to the Dean’s Office

    Last Thursday, I stopped by the newly established encampment at my former school, the University of Toronto. These encampments, which have popped up at what feels like nearly every North American university at this point, have been variously described as “pro-Palestine” or “anti-Israel.” Continue reading

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  • Movies I Saw at TIFF 2023

    Movies I Saw at TIFF 2023

    The Hollywood strike may have prevented this year’s Toronto International Film Festival from being as lively as prior years, but that didn’t hold me back. This year I saw 11 films at the festival. I even liked most of them! Here are all of the films that I saw at TIFF 2023, in the order Continue reading

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