Lyra Hale
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Lyra Hale is a writer, editor, and podcaster that covers film, TV, books, and more. She likes geeking over scifi, fantasy, and all things spooky. When she isn't writing reviews, crying over her favorite characters, or talking about 911 on her podcast Tales From the 118, she's crafting. Let's stalk and nerd out together to our hearts content.

La Bola Negra TIFF Review: This is Why It’s Important to Preserve LGBTQ+ Stories

La Bola Negra is a wonder of a movie about the importance of preserving and telling LGBTQ+ stories. It’s intimate, hopeful, powerful, and the kind of story you want to watch over and over again because it’s thought-provoking, grand, but…

Future Tense TIFF Review: Time-Travel Adventure Sanitized for a White Audience in Mind

Future Tense sees the depiction of Black trauma told through a white perspective and sanitized for a white audience in mind. And this isn’t to say that white directors or writers like Jenna Cato Bass can’t tell Black stories. They…

Anna Pigeon Season 1 Episode 6 Review: I Knew I Couldn’t Trust You…

Anna Pigeon Season 1 Episode 6 “There’s Always a Road” felt like vindication after not trusting Bethany from the jump! And no, this didn’t come out of nowhere. Bethany has been squirrely from her introduction. On top of that, we…

Always Lalisa TIFF Review: You’ll Laugh, Cry, & Get to Know a New Side of Lisa

Always Lalisa is an intimate look at a global superstar told with a gentle hand that strips back the glamor and reveals a woman with the same fears, joys, and anxieties as the rest of us. It’s also a journey…

Everything We Know About Peter Krause’s NBC Show Line of Fire

If you’ve been missing Peter Krause since his sudden departure from ABC’s 9-1-1, then you’re in luck. Krause is heading back to network television in the form of the law enforcement drama Line of Fire. Alongside him we’re being introduced…

The Paper Season 2 Review: Says Goodbye to The Office Nostalgia

The Paper Season 2 says goodbye to The Office nostalgia we got in Season 1 as a means of trying to stand on their own. And I’m not quite sure if they stuck the landing. But that doesn’t mean it’s…

It Ends Review: Thank You for the Existential Crisis.

It Ends starts off as a simple horror about a road that just keeps going, and ends up being the kind of movie that gives you an existential crisis on top of the horror show we’re currently living in 2026. …

Onslaught Review: Adria Arjona is the Action Hero We Need in 2026

Adria Arjona is brutal, feral, and unapologetically mother in the action movie Onslaught. And we need more of this kind of action hero in 2026 and beyond. Because I’m sick and tired of getting action roles that aren’t really written…

7 Women Directed Films We’re Looking Forward to Watching at TIFF

With 293 titles screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) there’s a lot to take in. There are films across every genre, from all over the world, and in a multitude of languages. And when it comes to films…