Him is a sports horror film directed by Justin Tipping, co-written by Skip Bronkie, Zack Akers, and Tipping, and produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions. The film stars Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, and Tim Heidecker. A young athlete descends into a world of terror when he's invited to train with a legendary champion whose charisma curdles into something darker.

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Timmy Lee speaks with Japanese director Takahide Hori to discuss his latest stop-motion animated film, Junk World (2025), which had its international premiere at TIFF 50. The interview is conducted in both Japanese and English, with Hori’s assistant translating all of Timmy’s English questions into Japanese and Hori’s Japanese responses into English. The trio discusses Hori’s inspirations when creating the world of Junk World, his reasoning behind adding certain plot points and character models in the film, and how working with a bigger budget and crew affected his approach to writing and filmmaking. Timmy’s review of Junk World further details his thoughts about the film, its unique premise, and how it improves over its predecessor, Junk Head (2017). 

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Timmy Lee sits down with American film and TV composer, Tyler Strickland, to talk about the music for his latest documentary, John Candy: I Like Me (2025), which premiered as the opening film for TIFF 50. The movie chronicles the life and career of legendary Canadian comedian and actor, John Candy, using interviews with Candy’s family and friends and never-before-seen archival home footage and audio commentary. John Candy: I Like Me is both a celebration and authentic portrayal of Candy and his work, exploring the impact he made on the film and comedy landscape and how his troubled personal life shaped and intertwined with his work. In the interview, Strickland discusses how he first got involved with the film, what the process of creating the music with director Colin Hanks was like, why the French horn was an integral instrument for developing the documentary’s theme, and the importance of honoring Candy’s legacy. 

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Sara Ciplickas sits down with Vancouver Actor, Comedian & Filmmaker Panta Mosleh, who recently premiered her most recent directorial effort Pride & Prayer at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Mosleh is also featured in A24's Eternity, which world premiered at TIFF on Sunday, September 7th. In Pride & Prayer, Mosleh embarks on a soul-searching journey to reconcile her queerness with her Muslim faith. Through raw conversations, moments of solitude, and spiritual questioning, she invites us into a deeply personal quest for belonging.

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is directed by Kogonada and written by Seth Reiss. The film stars Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and is described as follows: two strangers who meet at a mutual friend's wedding have the chance to relive important moments from their pasts, illuminating the path that led them to the present and gaining the opportunity to change their futures.

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The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close and we are here to recap our team’s experience at the festival as we had 10 people on the ground at the festival. We’ll cover our overall impressions of the festival, the films that stood out to us the most, and some stats and superlatives. 

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The Awards Season Draft returns for round 2! After the inaugural episode of the series saw us competitively draft winners across the awards circuit from 2015-16, we now jump ahead to cover the 2022-23 season. Our draft options include Oscar winners, Precursor winners (Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG, CCA), festival winners (TIFF, Venice, Cannes, Sundance), and critics group winners (NSFC, LAFCA, NYFCC). See the video version of the podcast on our Patreon. 

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The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film co-produced and directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman). A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as "The Long Walk," where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot. The film stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill.

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Nandita Joshi is joined by director Zahraa Ghandour about her powerful feature-length documentary debut, Flana, where she opens up about what led her to step back behind the camera after taking a break as an actress, and how the film became a deeply personal exploration of silence, memory, and womanhood in Iraq. From interviewing her own family to crafting haunting visuals with cinematographer Jocelyne Abi Gebrayel, she reflects on the emotional risks of telling such a vulnerable story, the absence of male voices, and her hopes for the conversations Flana will spark now that it’s out in the world.

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Orphan, the latest from director László Nemes (Son of Saul, TIFF ’15, which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; Sunset, TIFF ’18), takes place amongst the ruins of the violently suppressed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in which thousands of anguished citizens challenged the USSR-backed dictatorship and were met with Soviet tanks and troops. At TIFF this year, Timmy Lee joins Nemes to discuss his latest film. 

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