Eddie Murphy is back in classic form with the release of Dolemite Is My Name whether or not it is intended to serve as a comeback vehicle. What you should probably know going into the film is that Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) decided to change up his comedy/music career because of Rico, a homeless man. When the film starts out, Moore is working at Dolphin’s of Hollywood and begging a DJ (Snoop Dogg) to…
"Dolemite Is My Name: Eddie Murphy Is Back"Tag: Toronto International Film Festival
Solzy at the Movies had the privilege of being on the red carpet for the world premiere of Lucy in the Sky last month during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Lucy in the Sky serves as Noah Hawley’s feature directorial debut. The debut for Hawley comes following his work on both Fargo and Legion. Natalie Portman–who still dreams of being an astronaut in real life–and Jon Hamm lead a cast that also includes Zazie…
"Lucy in the Sky: On the Red Carpet"
Incitement director/co-writer Yaron Zilberman and actor Yehuda Nahari Halevi sat down with Solzy at the Movies one day after the world premiere in Toronto. Not more than five minutes after the world premiere last month, the entire theater had to be evacuated. This was due to a security concern. The fact that the film originates in Israel means you have to take every security precaution when someone gets suspicious. It took about another hour to…
"Yaron Zilberman, Yehuda Nahari Halevi talk Incitement"
During a free talk on the OLG Dream Deck in Toronto, Endings, Beginnings actress Shailene Woodley discussed what she looked for in a screenplay. Towards the end of the talk, I asked one of the final two questions. What do you typically look for in characters when you’re reading a screenplay? Shailene Woodley: Nothing to be honest. When I read a screenplay, it’s instinctual feeling that comes across me and I actually don’t notice my…
"Shailene Woodley: What She Looks For In Scripts"
Guest of Honour sat down with Solzy at the Movies for a roundtable interview during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Writer-director Atom Egoyan participated along with actors David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, and Luke Wilson. Atom, can you talk about reasoning behind giving Guest of Honour a non-linear structure in terms of the story? Atom Egoyan: That’s just the way I write. Given the subject matter and the prismatic, sort of effect of these…
"Guest of Honour: Interview from Toronto 2019"
At one point or another, Abominable is the type of film that is going to come tugging right at your emotions whether you’re yeti or not. Yi (Chloe Bennet) is a self-proclaimed loner. She’s been keeping busy and avoiding home as much as possible since the death of her father. One night, she happens to climb up to the roof to discover a Yeti that escaped the clutches of Burnish (Eddie Izzard) and zoologist Dr.…
"Abominable: An Emotional Journey"
Jungleland is a film about about a pair of brothers traveling across the country while also touching upon themes of toxic masculinity. Stanley Kaminski (Charlie Hunnam) and Lion Kaminski (Jack O’Connell) are a pair of brothers living in Massachusetts. They’re down on their luck with the only hope of making money being a boxing match in San Francisco. Easier said than done. Lion is a boxer and Stanley acts as his manager. If Stanley had…
"Toronto 2019: Jungleland"
Bad Education features a star-studded cast and tells the incredible true story about what transpired in a prestigious Long Island school district. When Hilltop Beacon reporter Rachel Bhargava (Geraldine Viswanathan) looks into some expense reports for an upcoming Roslyn School District project, she finds something else. Together with her dad, David Bhargava (Hari Dhillon), the two of them realize that there’s more here than meets the eye. Appropriately, they look into it. One thing leads…
"Toronto 2019: Bad Education"
Booksmart‘s Beanie Feldstein delivers another strong leading performance as teenager who becomes a rock music critic in How to Build a Girl. The film isn’t the typical coming-of-age comedy. Not many people come of age while seeking to reinvent themselves as a rock critic. This is what happens for Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein). Once a bullied high school teenager, Morrigan transforms herself into rock critic Dolly Wilde after taking a job with D&ME. The opportunity…
"Toronto 2019: How to Build a Girl" Incitement may come off as a character study but the film will not change anybody’s mind when it comes to the tragic assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. There’s no telling what could have happened had Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin not been assassinated by Yigal Amir (Yehuda Nahari Halevi). It’s likely that we could have seen peace in the Middle East. The reality is that this is such a big what if that we’ll never truly…
"Toronto 2019: Incitement"