In 2014, David Robert Mitchell’s slow-build ‘It Follows’ played the Critics’ Week selection at the Cannes Film Festival and took the genre world by storm. There was of course big anticipation for his return to Cannes with ‘Under t...
You’d think that the directorial debut of motion-capture acting pioneer Andy Serkis would be some sort of technical marvel, especially given that it’s produced by his own studio. Instead, Serkis directed ‘Breathe’, a sweetly forge...
It wouldn’t be a TIFF or awards season without a beautiful able-bodied movie star portraying a historically important disabled person. This time it’s Andrew Garfield doing the capital-I Important acting as Robin Cavendish in ‘Brea...
Shortly after posting last week’s ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ contest, I realized that I easily could have kept one of our spare copies of the movie for myself. Luckily for our readers, I’m not that selfish. I promised to give away two copies...
When we get extra copies of movies, our readers benefit. Our prize for this week’s contest is the Ultra HD + Blu-ray combo pack edition of Mel Gibson’s Oscar-nominated war drama ‘Hacksaw Ridge‘.
The great Martin Scorsese spent decades struggling to make ‘Silence’. Many casts signed on and then departed once the cash flow dried up. It took the combined forces of putting Spider-Man and Han Solo, Jr. in the lead roles before...
Oddly naïve and sweet in its Christian values, yet vicious to the point of exploitation in its violence, ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ is very much a conflicted movie. It’s also the latest film directed by Mel Gibson, a man who can be charitabl...
Given the devastating effect it had on the U.S. economy, it’s a bit of a shock how few movies have been made about the credit-crunch housing crisis. ’99 Homes’ is the first to take it on directly. Ramin Bahrani’s feature is a sear...
Ending years of fan speculation, Sony Pictures and Marvel Entertainment announced this week that they’ve finally struck a deal to bring Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with The Avengers and company. Now that we’ve sett...
The mortgage crisis gets the ‘Wall Street’ treatment in ’99 Homes’, in both all the right and all the wrong ways. The movie hinges on a pair of brilliant performances and has an excellent first hour. However, when the didactic scr...
In an age when so many Marvel Comics characters are treated to excellent movie adaptations, it’s a real shame that Stan Lee’s poster boy Spider-Man is stuck in such a mediocre franchise. Sadly, as long as the rights remain with So...
Future Shop’s upcoming Blu-ray SteelBook for ‘The Amazing Spider-Man‘ isn’t exactly amazing, but at least it’s not as hideous as the Canadian retailer’s exclusive SteelBooks for Sam Raimi’s trilogy.
