TIFF Journal: ‘Mr. Right’
It’s pretty typical for an action/comedy to include a romantic sub-plot. It’s also quite common for that to be the worst part of the movie. However, ‘Mr. Right’ is a welcome exception to the rule. This big,...
It’s pretty typical for an action/comedy to include a romantic sub-plot. It’s also quite common for that to be the worst part of the movie. However, ‘Mr. Right’ is a welcome exception to the rule. This big,...
Six years ago, Australian director Sean Byrne established himself as a film nerd genre director to watch with ‘The Loved Ones’, which played like a John Hughes movie with graphic dismemberment flourishes. The flick bec...
Two years ago, Alfonso Cuarón’s son Jonás helped him script the stunning blockbuster ‘Gravity’. Around the same time, Jonás Cuarón was also writing his own movie, ‘Desierto’, which was a similarly str...
Ilya Naishuller’s ‘Hardcore’ is a tricky movie. One the one hand, it’s a pretty amazing technical accomplishment that’s almost without precedent and will pin genre fans to their seats. On the other ha...
After a few years away getting up to god knows what (presumably debauchery of some sort), bad boy filmmaker Gaspar Noé has returned. For over a decade, the director has hyped up a dream of making an X-rated entertainment for the a...
After being the premiere voice in extremist cinema in the 2000s, Takashi Miike (‘Audition‘, ‘Ichi the Killer‘) took about a decade off from delivering his usual cinematic assaults of absolute madness. Howev...
I’ve had so little interest in the Emmy Awards this year that, honestly, I didn’t even realize the ceremony was on this weekend until fellow blogger Shannon happened to mention it to me on Sunday afternoon. I didn̵...
Although highly congested, this weekend ended up being a very successful one for most of the new movies that opened.
A movie doesn’t necessarily need a villain to create drama. This week’s theatrical release of ‘Everest’ is the latest film to explore the conflict between man (or woman) and nature. Let’s look at some...
In only a handful of movies, director Ben Wheatley has established himself as one of the most fascinating and unpredictable filmmakers working today. Titles like ‘Kill List’, ‘Sightseers’, and ‘A Fiel...
The Danish filmmaking industry isn’t exactly renowned for its comedies. The culture that produced filmmakers like Lars Von Trier, Nicolas Winding Refn and Thomas Vinterberg doesn’t exactly seem like a laugh factory. Ye...
After taking six years off following the fairly underwhelming ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’, Michael Moore is finally back with his latest cinematic political essay. Unfortunately, some of the rust built up from that time...