TIFF Journal: ‘The Lobster’
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...
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 1.03 Recap: “Good Peopl
I’m still not quite sure where I stand on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’. While Episode 3 (titled ‘The Dog’… not exactly an endorsement, is it?) is really no worse, or better, than the second entry, the seri...
Weekend Box Office: 90 Minutes of Fame
It’s only fitting that the weekend that sees M. Night Shyamalan return to form would feature a few twists.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 13th, 2015 – Why So F
Last week slowed down a bit for new Blu-ray releases, but this week revs back up to speed with a huge volume of new titles, including one of the biggest box office hits of all time. Is that disc, or much of anything this week, rea...
Weekend Roundtable: Most Anticipated Fall 2015 Movies
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...
TIFF Journal: ‘Sicario’
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...
TIFF Journal: ‘Legend’
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...
TIFF Journal: ‘Room’
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...
Weekend Movies: Perfect Is the Enemy of Good
Three new movies hit wide release screen today, but you’ve probably only heard about one of them.
‘The Visit’ Review: I See Old People
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 ...
TIFF Journal: ‘Spotlight’
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...
TIFF Journal: ‘The Witch’
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...