WEEK IN WOMEN: TIFF’s inaugural Share Her Journey Award to Michelle Yeoh – Brandy McDonnell reports

Esteemed performer Michelle Yeoh will receive the inaugural TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award during this month’s Toronto International Film Festival. The award recognizes a woman who is a leader in the film industry and has made a positive impact for women throughout their career. The inaugural award is inspired by TIFF’s Share Her Journey initiative, which was created to address gender parity in the film industry, to champion women at every stage of their creative journey, and to shine a spotlight on women creators making a significant difference in the industry.

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

Everything Everywhere All at Once has moments where viewers might wonder, What the heck did I just watch? The film has martial arts fights with dildos and pixelated body parts, characters who nibble on “hot dog fingers”, and sentient rocks. But stick with it. Everything matters, as absurd as it is, and it’s beautiful when you least expect it. A stellar cast led by Michelle Yeoh holds this zany multiverse together. The martial arts veteran naturally makes her action scenes look effortless. She’s also funny, poignant, and incredibly endearing as Evelyn Wang, a put-upon Laundromat owner whose fractured relationships hint at her greater adventure.

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Review by Susan Granger

Never has there been a more truthful title. In Everything Everywhere All at Once, the filmmakers adhere to the motto that too much is never enough. It’s like watching a deftly structured Sliding Doors concept become an action-packed, cacophonous Cloud Atlas.

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GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE – Review by Leslie Combemale

Gunpower Milkshake is proof that you can have five talented, compelling actors acting the hell out of themselves and it still won’t make up for a one-dimensional derivative script. I’d still crawl through teargas to see Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh, and Carla Gugino in an assassin sisterhood, but it’s a real disappointment they didn’t have a script that could leverage their combined star power and thespian skill.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Michelle Yeoh Represents – Brandy McDonnell Reports

When the Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 22, we’ll see whether the blockbuster romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians gives Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) her long-awaited shot at an Academy Award. If Yeoh gets a supporting actress nod this year, she will be only the sixth actress of Asian descent ever to be nominated in the history of the Academy.

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Top Five Cinema Female Psyche Distortions and the ‘Isotta Fraschini’ Syndrome – Quendrith Johnson comments

Ever since Maggie Gyllenhaal went public with the fact that she lost a role, at 37, as a love interest

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