A few years ago, director Matteo Garrone burst into the international filmmaking scene with Gomorrah, an almost anthropological study of the crime syndicates in the crumbling working class communities of Naples. It was a gangster ...
Some people probably thought that three separate versions of A Star Is Born were enough. Not Bradley Cooper, though. He decided that the world needed yet another version of that timeless tale of one star being born and another bei...
After an episode without any of them, most of the original cast return to Fear the Walking Dead this week (those still alive, anyway). Though they’re still broken up into small groups, both the characters and the plot for th...
Profoundly moving and unnerving in the gentlest of ways, Shoplifters is the type of quiet little movie that works best when playing to the unexpected. When the film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last spring, it practically gu...
It’s simple to pitch Firecrackers as “Canadian Honey,” a Canuck take on similar turf that Andrea Arnold covered with her celebrated (but flawed) 2016 drama American Honey. As films about fiery young women coming ...
Canadian documentarian Ron Mann has had a long career shedding light on various subcultures, from his celebrated Comic Book Confidential, examining a dance craze in The Twist, to stoners and growers in Grass. His latest, Carmine S...
Though some report that throwing pasta at the wall is the best way to test if it’s al dente, throwing horror elements at the wall, to see what sticks, is no way to make a movie. If you do that, you end up with Mara, and nobo...
The cinematic universe started with The Conjuring has been going strong since its inception in 2013. With two films in the main corral, two Annabelle prequels, and now an origin story of that creepy nun we spied in The Conjuring 2...
Two years after the Ghostbusters fiasco, the latest attempt to reboot a previously male-dominated franchise with an all-female cast was met with a little less virulent misogynistic outrage (though there certainly was some of that)...
Now that Jim from The Office is the new Jack Ryan, perhaps it’s time to rethink our traditional casting choices for action franchises. Rather than some muscle-bound former wrestler, what other comedian is destined to headlin...
A sleepy, seaside British village might not be the most universally relatable location for a film, but even within the picturesque setting there’s room for personal disappointment. In Juliet, Naked we see that relationships ...
Once the biggest box office draw in the world and a defining icon of masculinity for a generation of moviegoers, screen legend Burt Reynolds has died at the age of 82.
