‘Jigsaw’ Review: See Saw, See Saw Run
Seven years after the supposed Final Chapter (in 3D, member that?), the world’s most industrious slasher villain is apparently back. It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that ‘Saw’ eventually returned. Af...
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‘Goon: Last of the Enforcers’ Review: A Hokey Hockey
A few years ago, the hockey comedy ‘Goon’ proved to be a pleasant surprise by being both disarmingly sweet and disorientingly filthy. Now the sequel has arrived and somehow seems to get everything wrong that the origin...
‘Into the Forest’ Review: Apocalyptically Lacking
Patricia Rozema’s ‘Into the Forest’ is a well-crafted film with wonderful central performances. It’s hinged on a clever concept and filled with ambitious symbols and subtexts suggesting great import. Howeve...
‘Legends of Tomorrow’ 1.07 Recap: “A Captain Ne
For as goofy as the plot of last week’s ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ episode may be (and it’s plenty goofy), I still feel that the show’s premise is finally starting to come together and work out some of its...
TIFF Journal: ‘Born to Be Blue’
‘Born to Be Blue is a perfectly decent bio-pic of the late, great jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. The film serves up some clever reinventions of overly familiar bio-pic forms in the hopes of reinventing the genre. For a while, it...
‘The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet’ Review: An Ove
Few tones in all of filmmaking are more difficult to pull off than whimsy. One of the few directors who has managed to master that cutesy craft is Jean-Pierre Jeunet. (His ‘Amélie’ is the cinematic equivalent of a warm...
‘The Firm’ Pilot Recap: “It’s Happening A
It’s been 21 years since John Grisham’s breakout bestselling novel ‘The Firm’ was published, and 19 since Tom Cruise starred in the blockbuster movie version, yet NBC is just now getting around to adapting ...