TIFF Journal: ‘Foxcatcher’
Proving once and for all that wrestling is the creepiest of all sports, ‘Foxcatcher’ offers a darkly twisted take on the awards bait picture. It’s a handsomely mounted production filled with movie stars acting ha...
Proving once and for all that wrestling is the creepiest of all sports, ‘Foxcatcher’ offers a darkly twisted take on the awards bait picture. It’s a handsomely mounted production filled with movie stars acting ha...
David Cronenberg is a filmmaker with predictably singular cinematic fetishes and obsessions. Yet beyond those ticks that mark his unique directing style, his interests have been hard to pin down over his last few movies. Seemingly...
[Editor’s Note: New theatrical releases for the next couple of weeks look like pretty slim pickings. Fortunately, Phil is currently attending the Toronto International Film Festival to scope out some potentially interesting ...
‘As Above So Below’ is yet another Found-Footage horror movie, but at least this one has an interesting hook and some genuine scares. Pulling audiences deep into the genuinely frightening underground catacombs of Paris...
Unless you’re Sir Sean Connery, playing James Bond comes with a curse. Will you be one of the biggest stars in the world for the duration of the series? Probably. How will your career go afterwards? In a word: Struggle. Pier...
Over the years, quite a few filmmakers have taken cracks at nailing Elmore Leonard adaptations on the big screen, but very few have been successful (three to be exact: ‘Get Shorty’, ‘Jackie Brown’ and ̵...
Mixing together conventions of the quirky indie broken romance with ‘Twilight Zone’-style conceptual horror, ‘The One I Love’ is if nothing else a unique film. It opens by feeling like a movie you’ve ...
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller might have taken almost ten years to mount their sequel to ‘Sin City’, but within seconds it feels like they never left. This isn’t so much a sequel as it is a second issue. It...
Once hyped as the next ‘Twilight’, ‘If I Stay’ serves up a painfully earnest soap opera for teens that’s as predictable as it is condescending. It’s a romance with vaguely Christian morals for t...
Some movies are horrible because they were made by people who should never be allowed to own a camera or pretend to act. Then there are horrible movies made by such talented people that the failure is inexplicable. ‘Are You ...
‘What If’ poses the question “Can men and women really be friends?” for about the billionth time in a romantic comedy, and the answer is once again, “No, because they’re probably, secretly super...
Back in 2010, director Michael Winterbottom and the brilliant British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon drove around to a handful of restaurants in England with a loose outline of a screenplay and improvised some cinematic gol...