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About Author: Isabel Cupryn

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

Posts by Isabel Cupryn

  • Filmmaker Jill Morley found herself irresistibly drawn to boxing, much like the four other women whose stories are interwoven in this documentary. The film spans a five year period in...

    Movie Review: Fight Like a Girl

    Posted on May 18, 2013 | No Comments
    Filmmaker Jill Morley found herself irresistibly drawn to boxing, much like the four other women whose stories are interwoven in this documentary. The film spans a five year period in...

  • Room 237 is a documentary directed by Rodney Ascher, which presents several interpretations of possible hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, ranging from subtle symbolism to grand conspiracy theories....

    Movie Review: Room 237

    Posted on May 10, 2013 | No Comments
    Room 237 is a documentary directed by Rodney Ascher, which presents several interpretations of possible hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, ranging from subtle symbolism to grand conspiracy theories....

  • 14-year-old Ryan Grantham stars in the lead role of Becoming Redwood, set against the beautiful landscape of Langley, BC. Grantham plays the 11-year-old son of divorced hippies, who copes with...

    Interview: Ryan Grantham talks ‘Becoming Redwood’

    Posted on May 2, 2013 | No Comments
    14-year-old Ryan Grantham stars in the lead role of Becoming Redwood, set against the beautiful landscape of Langley, BC. Grantham plays the 11-year-old son of divorced hippies, who copes with...

  •   When I told writer-director Alex Boothby that his film Mr. Viral didn’t feel stereotypically Canadian (in an interview to follow, stay tuned next week), he visibly bristled. Nonetheless, I...

    Movie Review: Mr. Viral

    Posted on May 2, 2013 | 3 Comments
      When I told writer-director Alex Boothby that his film Mr. Viral didn’t feel stereotypically Canadian (in an interview to follow, stay tuned next week), he visibly bristled. Nonetheless, I...

  • 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...

    Movie Review: Upstream Color

    Posted on April 15, 2013 | 3 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...

  • 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...

    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...

  • 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...

    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...

  • 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...

    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...

  • 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...

    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...

  • 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...

    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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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: 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...

  • 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: 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...

  • 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: 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...

  • 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: 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...

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