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Cannes Journal: The Lighthouse

Jason Gorber — Fri, 24 May 2019 15:00:46 +0000

Like his 2015 film The Witch, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse feels more like a lost artifact than something newly produced. Where The Witch explored the darkness of Salem paranoia and demonic possession, the director’s latest dives into waters of a different sort that are no less turbulent. Shot on Kodak black-and-white 35mm and projected in...

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TIFF Journal: High Life

Jason Gorber — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:00:14 +0000

Broadly speaking, High Life continues Claire Denis’ exploration of the human condition, focusing on notions such as redemption, sacrifice, violence and compulsions. What makes it unique in her filmography is that this is the first time she’s tackled anything in English – or, for that matter, anything in outer space. We meet Monte (Robert Pattinson)...

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‘Good Time’ Review: Another Bad Night

Philip Brown — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 16:00:07 +0000

Martin Scorsese’s ‘After Hours’ is arguably the pinnacle of a certain subgenre of “bad night” thrillers that have the ability to create anxious tension like few others. The Safdie brothers’ ‘Good Time’ delivers its nerve-rattling absurdity with enough style, humor and grit to be worthy of the comparison. The film can feel a bit scattershot,...

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‘The Lost City of Z’ Review: An Intimate (and Somewhat Insane) Epic

Philip Brown — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:00:27 +0000

‘The Lost City of Z’ seemingly promises many things that we come to expect from summertime movie spectacle. It’s about an adventurer traveling deep into the jungle, uncovering cannibals, fighting off piranha attacks, and dipping into war, all the while in search of something to add meaning to life. Based on the biography of obsessive...

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‘Life’ (2015) Review: Pandering Portraiture

Philip Brown — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:00:28 +0000

‘Life’ feels more like a pitch than an actual movie. The film has a strong idea and it’s clear how the filmmakers were able to talk people into financing it. And yet, the final project never amounts to much more than a concept and a doodle. Ultimately, it’s just another of those “Icons are people...

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‘Maps to the Stars’ Review: Showbiz Satire Too Bitter to Swallow

Philip Brown — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:00:53 +0000

Hollywood is one of the easiest cultures to satirize, which is why it seemed so interesting that David Cronenberg of all people would want to take a crack at it. Surely he’d have some sort of twisted, horrific and psychosexual take on La-La-land that would be worthy of one more scrape from the bottom of...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Maps to the Stars’

Philip Brown — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:00:32 +0000

David Cronenberg is a filmmaker with predictably singular cinematic fetishes and obsessions. Yet beyond those ticks that mark his unique directing style, his interests have been hard to pin down over his last few movies. Seemingly disinterested in the genres that once defined his career, he’s now on a quest to define himself as a...

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‘The Rover’ Review: Road Trip to Nowhere

Philip Brown — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:00:25 +0000

‘The Rover’ falls into the genre of semi-profound post-apocalyptic dramas like ‘The Road‘. It’s essentially a bleak Western, the type that tries to conceal its genre thrills through slow pacing and minimalist meaningful dialogue. It’s an art house con game that rarely works and ‘The Rover’ certainly doesn’t do the genre any favors. A silent...

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Weekend Movies: Over Hill and Dale

Luke Hickman — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:00:33 +0000

I miss the good old days when summer blockbusters were original material. This year, you can’t go more than two weeks without a sequel or a remake, and fantastic original movies like ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ can’t catch a break. The two big movies opening nationwide today are each second chapters in very successful franchises –...

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The Trailer Park: Not Much Else Going On

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:00:45 +0000

The last couple of weeks have been pretty slow in terms of new movie trailers. With little else to discuss, let’s look at a few potentially interesting movies coming soon. ‘The Rover’ First, ‘Mad Max’ portrayed a post-apocalyptic future set in Australia. Now, David Michôd (who directed the excellent ‘Animal Kingdom’) envisions a violent and...

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Blu-ray Highlights for January 2nd, 2013 – You Look Familiar

Josh Zyber — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:00:55 +0000

Welcome back from another long weekend, and welcome to 2013! As you recover from your holiday hangovers, the new year begins mostly with a lot of reissues of old Blu-ray titles. However, mixed in here somewhere may be a few new discs worth looking at. As part of the new distribution deal between the two...

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Now Playing: Twilight’s Last Gleaming (Finally!)

Luke Hickman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:00:42 +0000

After four painful years, our collective misery is finally over. No more ‘Twilight’. With the release of ‘Breaking Dawn, Part 2’, I’m happy to say that we can finally put all this behind us and never look back. While trying to explain to a confused disbeliever that ‘Part 2’ is actually the fifth of the...

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