Ethan Dayton

Ethan Dayton

September 23, 2025

TIFF 2025: ‘Tuner’ is One of the Biggest Surprises Out of TIFF

No matter how much research you do, there’s always at least one movie that sneaks up on you every year at the Toronto International Film Fest...

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Ethan Dayton

September 22, 2025

TIFF 2025: ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Makes Me Want a Knives Out Movie Every Year

Returning to the world of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019) is like running into the arms of the safest loved one you know, an ironic sentimen...

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Ethan Dayton

September 22, 2025

TIFF 2025: ‘Mile End Kicks’ Proves Barbie Ferreira is a Leading Lady 

Barbie Ferreira is a highly talented actress who is not well-known to many people. She first appeared on people’s televisions in a mainstream...

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Ethan Dayton

September 17, 2025

TIFF 2025: 'Follies' is a French-Canadian Sex Comedy that Proves Canadians Can Get Freaky Too

It’s not very often we get a good sex comedy, let alone one that’s also thematically rich, genuinely funny, unafraid of showing some skin, an...

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Ethan Dayton

September 14, 2025

TIFF 2025: ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Is Everything We Wanted ‘Nightbitch’ To Be

The only people who know how hard it is to be a mom are mothers. Many movies have tried to capture the anxiety and difficulties motherhood br...

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September 1, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

TIFF 2025 Curtain Raiser

Fall festival season is underway, with premieres of some of the biggest titles of 2025. This year marks the 50th Toronto International Film F...

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Ethan Dayton

August 12, 2025

‘Alien: Earth’ Review: Noah Hawley Delivers The Best Alien Entry Since Ridley Scott’s Original Film

This is a spoiler-free review of the first six episodes of FX’s ‘Alien: Earth.’  The Alien franchise has been a cinematic staple ...

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Ethan Dayton

June 18, 2025

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Review: A Painful Reminder Of Hollywood’s Current State

With Universal Pictures finally deciding to stake its claim in the live-action remake space after watching Disney rake in billions for over a...

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Bryan Sudfield

March 13, 2025

EP 128: Mickey 17 (2025)

In Bong Joon-ho’s first film since the Best Picture-winning Parasite, he returns to science fiction by adapting the novel Mickey7 by Edward A...

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Ethan Dayton

February 5, 2025

‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Review: A Simultaneously Fresh & Classic Take On Marvel’s Most Popular Hero

The following is a SPOILER-FREE review for all 10 episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which drops episodes on Disney+ every We...

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Ethan Dayton

October 4, 2024

‘Agatha All Along’ Review: The Unlikely Spin-Off That Could

The following is a SPOILER review for Episodes 1-4 of Agatha All Along, which streams on Disney+ every Wednesday at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST.  ...

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Ethan Dayton

August 30, 2024

‘The Crow’ Review: A Dark Fantasy So Dull That Reality Seems Brighter

To start this review with an endorsement: fans of the 1994 version of The Crow, directed by Alex Proyas and starring the late Brandon Lee, wh...

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