Classic Movies Live Season 6, Episode 21 – TIFF50
September 24, 2025
TIFF turns 50, so now we’re saying… TIFFTY!
If you were wondering where we were over the last few weeks, well, we went to the fiftieth iteration of the Toronto International Film Festival! This year hosted over 250 movies, and Jeff tried to see as many as he could! As you’ll hear, he got way further towards that goal than he probably should have…
In this episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about TIFF50. The good movies, the great movies, and one or two of the ugly ones. Tune in for the inside scoop on which movies you should be on the look out for in the latter half of 2025!
Reviews for each movie are spoiler-free, but if you want to know what we’re talking about, see the timestamps below!
0:00 – Intro and general festival thoughts
6:57 – Wake Up Dead Man
15:40 – Hamnet
25:02 – F*ck My Son!
29:58 – Midnight Madness feat. Festival Correspondent Robert Hill
36:14 – The Testament of Ann Lee
47:57 – Sacrifice
54:28 – Sacrifice and Rental Family feat. Dakota Arsenault of Contra Zoom Pod
1:04:12 – Frankenstein
1:13:41 – No Other Choice
1:23:45 – Kokuho feat. Festival Correspondent Robert Hill
1:33:12 – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
1:34:26 – No Drama feat. Brandon MacMurray of Shortstick
For more TIFFTY content, check out Jeff’s reviews over on ContraZoomPod.com, including in-depth reviews for two movies we discuss here — Sacrifice and The Testament of Ann Lee — and many that we don’t — like JUNK WORLD and Mare’s Nest.
Jeff was also recently on an episode of Contra Zoom Pod, where he talked about a different set of films from TIFF. Check that episode out here!
