No Other Choice Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/no-other-choice/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png No Other Choice Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/no-other-choice/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite film screen performances of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/11/year-in-review-our-favorite-film-screen-performances-of-2025/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:54:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042798 If you’d like to know my thoughts on acting in movies, I’d point you to the scene from Moneyball in which Billy Beane tries to convince Scott Hatteberg to play first base. It is incredibly hard, though the compensation and fame and all of the other accoutrements go a long way to convince the average schlub that it’s easy as hell. Just imagine trying to do a monologue in which you have to run the gamut of emotions while not […]

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]]> IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025: Five movies to see for week two https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/30/iffboston-fall-focus-2025-five-films-week-two/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:21:34 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042575 Things might suck at the moment — the weather is real bad, the days are getting shorter, the Celtics and Bruins are getting off to a rough start, and a look at the front page of one’s favorite newspaper only causes further depression — but there are still plenty of reasons to find joy and hope in the muck and mire of modern life. Drake Maye rocks — in addition to putting up MVP-caliber stats, dude did a deep Pokémon […]

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]]> TIFF50 Review: ‘No Other Choice’ is probably the best movie of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/15/tiff50-review-no-other-choice-is-probably-the-best-movie-of-2025/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:37:16 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042343 Editor’s Note: Vanyaland film editor Nick Johnston is back in Canada this week covering the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. And as usual, we wish we were up there with him! Check out our continuing 2025 coverage, get rolling with our official curtain-raiser, and revisit the complete Vanyaland coverage archives from past TIFF editions. I don’t know if there’ll be a better example of capital-B Bravura filmmaking on display this year than what Park Chan-wook has done in No Other Choice, his adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s […]

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]]> TIFF50 Preview: Five films we’re hyped about at this year’s festival https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/04/tiff50-preview-five-films-were-hyped-about-at-this-years-festival/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:26:19 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042297 Time to bust out that 13-year-old Trinidad James classic “All Gold Everything,” because that’s a great descriptor of what it’s like walking around Toronto right now. It’s the golden anniversary of what was known as the Festival of Festivals back in its early days, then the Toronto Film Festival, then the Toronto International Film Festival, and now, simply, TIFF. Actually, we should cue up “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” instead — there’s always something special about visiting […]

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