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Zombieland: Double Tap Review – Not Quite Tapped Out Yet

Deirdre Crimmins — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:00:48 +0000

Ten years and sixteen days after the first Zombieland was released, we finally get to see what those crazy living humans have been up to all these years. Zombieland: Double Tap is a fun enough visit with familiar characters, though not nearly as much fun as the first film. Picking up essentially ten years after...

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VIFF Journal: The Favourite

Jason Gorber — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 12:00:31 +0000

Yorgos Lanthimos has carved out a wonderful niche space, crafting films that mix whimsy and darkness in equal measure. From Dogtooth and Alps to The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, each of his movies forms a strange little world that we’re invited to visit. His latest, The Favourite, takes many of his...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Battle of the Sexes’

Philip Brown — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:00:46 +0000

A pop feminist dramedy is just the ticket for a crowd-pleasing awards bait picture. With writer Simon Beaufoy (‘Slumdog Millionaire’) and co-directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton (‘Little Miss Sunshine’) in charge of bringing a true story to the screen, you can be certain those crowds will indeed be pleased. Unfortunately, the film is also...

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The Trailer Park: A Fictionalized Truth

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:00:13 +0000

With the summer movie season now in full swing, it’s time to look ahead at what to expect in the fall and winter. We start with a trio of tales loosely based on true stories. ‘The Greatest Showman’ Visual effects artist Michael Gracey makes his directorial debut with a musical bio-drama about P.T. Barnum, the...

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2017 SAG Award Winners

Josh Zyber — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:00:01 +0000

The great ship known as America may be sinking, but the band on deck continues to play. Hollywood’s award season must roll on. The latest excuse for movie stars to celebrate themselves came at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. The results there may pose some surprises for the Oscars next month. The SAG...

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‘La La Land’ Review: Love, Song, Dance, Joy

Philip Brown — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 02:00:36 +0000

Full disclosure: I generally don’t like musicals. They’re too artificial, too stylized, too overblown, too sweet, and mostly just too nice for me. When ‘La La Land’ was hyped up like nobody’s business, I got nervous. I didn’t want to hate this thing that everyone seemed to love. Then I saw it and… wow. Writer/director...

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TIFF Journal: ‘La La Land’

Philip Brown — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:00:34 +0000

Even as a crusty cynic, it was remarkably difficult to shake off the charms of ‘La La Land’. A mixture of homage to the oldest and corniest of Hollywood musicals as well as a modern parable about the perils of chasing dreams, this is a beautiful concoction. The film is a magical cinematic trip both...

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‘Irrational Man’ Review: Disposable Woody

Philip Brown — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:00:42 +0000

It ain’t easy being a Woody Allen fan these days. Aside from being required to ignore any and all news stories about his personal life, you also have to recognize that in order for Allen to maintain his one-movie-a-year schedule, most of them will be pretty bad. The ratio of bad Woodys to good Woodys...

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‘Aloha’ Review: Cameron Crowe’s Current Catastrophe

Philip Brown — Fri, 29 May 2015 13:00:47 +0000

A strange thing has happened over the last few years. The romantic comedy, once a lynchpin of Hollywood’s desire to profit off date nights, has slowly disappeared after a few too many Katherine Heigl crap-heaps soured anyone’s interest. Presumably, Sony hoped that giving former rom-com champ Cameron Crowe a crack at the bat might help...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Movies Starring 2015 Oscar Nominees

Josh Zyber — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:00:23 +0000

Oh sure, they may be basking in the acclaim of their latest hits now, but this year’s Oscar nominees haven’t always starred in such award-worthy movies. In fact, many of them have made a lot of crap. As we prepare to watch the Academy Awards ceremony this weekend, let’s remember how far some of these...

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‘Birdman’ Review: Keaton Soars

Philip Brown — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:00:20 +0000

Birdman is a big swinging bit of show-off filmmaking for everyone involved. Thankfully, the final result is wildly entertaining and just plain weird enough to justify all the grandstanding. No single member of the team succeeds more than Michael Keaton, for whom the film isn’t just a long overdue comeback, but likely the most challenging...

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‘Magic in the Moonlight’ Review: Woody’s Psychic Sillies

Philip Brown — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:00:42 +0000

If you like Woody Allen enough to follow his career, you know that since the 1980s he’s alternated between interesting films and minor wisps. With last year’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ qualifying as possibly his best film in a decade, it was inevitable that his follow-up ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ would be more of a minor romp....

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