TIFF Journal: ‘Black Mass’
The tale of Boston crime lord James “Whitey” Bulger is so good that it’s surprising it took this long for someone to make a movie out of it… or at least an official bio-pic anyway. Martin Scorsese flavored his ...
The tale of Boston crime lord James “Whitey” Bulger is so good that it’s surprising it took this long for someone to make a movie out of it… or at least an official bio-pic anyway. Martin Scorsese flavored his ...
‘Good Kill‘ might have been the first of an inevitable trend of drone warfare movies, but ‘Eye in the Sky’ qualifies as the first actually worth seeking out. Even though director Gavin Hood (‘X-Men Or...
Writer/director Jeremy Saulnier’s thriller ‘Blue Ruin‘ took off above and beyond anyone’s expectations after a festival run a few years ago. Award-winning and one of the first VOD hits (in as much as that...
‘The Final Girls’ proves that a clever premise can only get you so far. The movie promises to be delightful pisstake on ’80s slasher movies with ideas pulled from ‘Last Action Hero’ (don’t worry...
Move over ‘Birdman’, there’s a new one-take wonder in town. Filmed in three tries on three different nights in Berlin (according to legend, the third was the charm, if you were wondering), Sebastian Schipper̵...
There’s no real way to prepare yourself for Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest oddball odyssey ‘The Lobster’, with the possible exception of a familiarity with the director’s previous works ‘DogtoothR...
A brutal, brilliant and culturally relevant thriller, Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Sicario’ announces itself with a punch to the gut of cinematic bravado. Roger Deakins’ evocative and immaculate camerawork pulls the...
The big question at the end of ‘Legend’ is just how much an impact can a single actor have on the overall result of a movie. For the most part, Brian Helgeland’s take on the notorious London gangsters the Kray br...
Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Room’ is an unsettling yet richly moving portrayal of a horrendous human tragedy. Taking a sadly familiar set of circumstances, the filmmaker creates a hopeful tale of two young lost souls who...
Based on the 2001 Pultizer Prize winning Boston Globe exposé of corruption within the Catholic Church, Tom McCarthy’s latest film ‘Spotlight’ is both a sprawling study of a disturbing issue and an intimately smal...
Billed as a New England folk tale, Robert Eggers’ rather brilliant directorial debut ‘The Witch’ mixes the paranoid reality of the Salem witch trials with the folklore that fuelled the panic until the true nature...
So you get to make a movie about the notorious Colombian cocaine king Pablo Escobar and even get the dependably excellent Benicio Del Toro to play the title role. How could anyone possibly screw that up, right? Well, how about mak...