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Description: Isabel Cupryn is a freelance writer and film blogger in Toronto.

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Movie Review: Upstream Color
Posted on April 15, 2013 | 2 Comments
This movie stays with you for days after watching it, as only the most interesting stories do. Writer/director/actor/composer Shane Carruth garnered much attention with his first feature Primer. His much...
What’s hot this weekend at ReelWorld 2013
Posted on April 13, 2013 | No Comments
Toronto’s own Tonya Lee Williams, who many will recognize as Olivia from the Young and the Restless, founded the not-for-profit ReelWorld Film Festival in 1999, running this weekend at the Famous...
Movie Review: Like Someone in Love
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No Comments
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, known best for Certified Copy, directs the Japanese/French art-house film Like Someone In Love. It’s a drama about a series of gradually escalating events/misunderstandings that happen...
Interview: Kirk Caouette talks ‘Hit ‘n Strum’ (+ review of the film)
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No Comments
You may have read Dave Voigt’s ouchie 1-star review of Hit ‘n Strum a few days ago here on Criticize This! and thus be surprised that I give it 4...
Movie Review: Love, Marilyn
Posted on April 5, 2013 | 3 Comments
Love, Marilyn is a 2012 documentary based on Marilyn Monroe’s personal notes described in the 2010 book Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. I’ll take you through the good, the bad...
Packaged Goods: The Year’s Best at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No Comments
Ah, the holidays – a time for eyeing and buying all that glitters, amazes or comes with surround sound. Even the grinchiest grinch, the snarkiest of cynics, can stand to...
TIFF 2012 Review: Jared Leto’s Searing Music Industry Expose ‘Artifact’
Posted on September 15, 2012 | 27 Comments
If you don’t know who 30 Seconds to Mars is, you will soon. Artifact is the Super Size Me of the music industry, and makes its world premiere this weekend...
TIFF 2012: Writer/Director Matt Austin Sadowski talks ‘The Tape’
Posted on September 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
Matt Austin Sadowski’s done it all. From playing the green Power Ranger, to directing the John Hughes documentary Don’t You Forget About Me, to composing music. Matt’s original, moving short film...
TIFF 2012: Actress Emily Piggford talks ‘Frost’
Posted on September 7, 2012 | 2 Comments
Jeremy Ball’s stunning short film Frost premieres at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) as part of the Short Cuts Canada: Programme #4. Frost starts off with cinematic sweeps...
TIFF 2012: Writer/Director Stephen Dunn talks ‘Life Doesn’t Frighten Me’
Posted on September 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
Stephen Dunn (pictured here with star Gordon Pinsent) is the writer-director of the must-see short film Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, making its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film...
TIFF 2012: Actor Shaan Rahman talks ‘Bardo Light’
Posted on September 4, 2012 | No Comments
Shaan Rahman stars in the captivating short film Bardo Light, which makes its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) as part of Short Cuts Canada: Programme...
TIFF 2012: Actress Jade Aspros talks ‘Life Doesn’t Frighten Me’
Posted on September 3, 2012 | 2 Comments
Talented beyond her years, 12-year-old Jade Aspros stars in the short film Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, making its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), as part...
‘Goodbye First Love’, Introduced by director Mia Hansen-Løve, playing at TIFF Bell Lightbox this Saturday
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No Comments
My first love, John, in heady and hormonal high school days, at turns thrilled me with absolute adoration and tormented me with mysterious wanderings and betrayal. So too suffers the...