TIFF Journal: ‘Victoria’
Move over ‘Birdman’, there’s a new one-take wonder in town. Filmed in three tries on three different nights in Berlin (according to legend, the third was the charm, if you were wondering), Sebastian Schipper̵...
Move over ‘Birdman’, there’s a new one-take wonder in town. Filmed in three tries on three different nights in Berlin (according to legend, the third was the charm, if you were wondering), Sebastian Schipper̵...
There’s no real way to prepare yourself for Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest oddball odyssey ‘The Lobster’, with the possible exception of a familiarity with the director’s previous works ‘DogtoothR...
It’s only fitting that the weekend that sees M. Night Shyamalan return to form would feature a few twists.
Now that we’ve left the dog days of summer behind, the fall movie season promises to bring some very promising new movies, from tentpole blockbusters to intriguing art films. From now until the end of the year, what movies a...
A brutal, brilliant and culturally relevant thriller, Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Sicario’ announces itself with a punch to the gut of cinematic bravado. Roger Deakins’ evocative and immaculate camerawork pulls the...
The big question at the end of ‘Legend’ is just how much an impact can a single actor have on the overall result of a movie. For the most part, Brian Helgeland’s take on the notorious London gangsters the Kray br...
Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Room’ is an unsettling yet richly moving portrayal of a horrendous human tragedy. Taking a sadly familiar set of circumstances, the filmmaker creates a hopeful tale of two young lost souls who...
Three new movies hit wide release screen today, but you’ve probably only heard about one of them.
From the start of his career as a writer/director, M. Night Shyamalan has been known to throw unforeseeable twists into his movies. After his first three or four films, the quality of his work went down the drain. The twists were ...
Based on the 2001 Pultizer Prize winning Boston Globe exposé of corruption within the Catholic Church, Tom McCarthy’s latest film ‘Spotlight’ is both a sprawling study of a disturbing issue and an intimately smal...
Billed as a New England folk tale, Robert Eggers’ rather brilliant directorial debut ‘The Witch’ mixes the paranoid reality of the Salem witch trials with the folklore that fuelled the panic until the true nature...
The always-soft Labor Day holiday weekend offered a few surprises at the box office this year, none bigger than the movie that hit the top of the charts.