TIFF Talk

If you’re a huge movie fan, then you already know that this past summer wasn’t exactly hot in the blockbuster department; save for Captain America: Civil War. Oscar season came in full swing as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) rolled out movies of all genres.

Manchester by the Sea, The Birth of a Nation (despite recent controversy), LaLa Land, and Loving, just to name a few, look to be viable award contenders.

Scott Mantz, a well-known film critic who you can occasionally catch on “Access Hollywood,” covered TIFF and tweeted that “LaLa Land will be HUGE and connect on the same level as TITANIC! A timeless LOVE STORY!”

Titanic?! Initially I was looking forward to LaLa Land not for the plot, but for its leading stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and the director Damien Chazelle, who wrote and directed one of my favorite films of 2015, Whiplash. With Stone and Gosling’s chemistry, reminiscent of Jack and Rose played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, I can understand his comparison.

And who doesn’t appreciate a great love story?