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Wedding video or film? Gorgeous trailer for “City of Lakes”
Wedding videographers aren’t exactly slumming it (it’s a lucrative business if you’re good at what you do) but it’s not exactly what I think of when I think of going to the movies. My limited...
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Gorgeous “City of Lakes” now streaming! Free!
A few weeks ago I gushed about the discovery of a trailer for a movie called City of Lakes. At the time, I wasn’t sure if this was an actual film or a glorified wedding video but after some discussion...
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Review: Daddy I Do
Director: Cassie Jaye Producers: Cassie Jaye, Nena Jaye MPAA Rating: NR Running time: 90 min. ****~ (4/5) Sex. There’s a loaded word. Some want it, others have it but everyone wants a say on it. From...
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DVD Review: Youth in Revolt
Director: Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl) Writers: Gustin Nash, C.D. Payne (novel) Producer: David Permut Starring: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi, Fred...
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Review: Down Terrace
Fans of The Sopranos will be hard pressed to not come away from Ben Wheatley’s Down Terrace with their jaw dropped to the floor. Wheatley’s first feature film is a deep look into a family that is held...
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DVD Review: Helen
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck Writer: Sandra Nettelbeck Producers: Christine Haebler, Judy Tossell Starring: Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic, Lauren Lee Smith, David Hewlett MPAA Rating: R Running time: 120...
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DVD Review: The Festival Collection: Le confessionnal, Nô, La face cachée de...
Continuing with their release of festival favourites, Alliance truly outdo themselves with his collection of films from one of Canada’s leading (yet often overlooked) directors: Robert Lepage. Known...
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VIFF 2010 Review: Fathers&Sons
Two years ago Canadian director Carl Bessai introduced us to a little collaborative project with a number of local actresses. The result of his no budget experiment was the wildly successful...
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VIFF 2010 Review: Snap
Irish director Carmel Winters has arrived and her debut feature, a demure little film titled Snap, is a marvellous achievement from a woman who clearly has a sense of the art of storytelling. Adapted...
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Review: Down Terrace
Upon being released from custody for some petty larceny, Ben and his son Karl, small time gangsters both, return home more or less in silence for an awkward couple of beers and stale pound-cake with...
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Fantasia Review: Marianne
Krister is feeling the boot-heel of karma kick him pretty hard for his past transgressions. After abandoning his wife, Eva, and daughter, Sandra, for a secret mistress, he grudgingly returns to...
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Toronto After Dark 2011: The Woman Review
After watching a movie that takes place in such a strange headspace such as Lucky McKee’s The Woman, it is probably best to let the thing percolate a bit before even attempting to articulate a...
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Review: Stoker
When Pauline Kael wrote off The Coen Brothers’ 1984 debut, Blood Simple, she had this to say: “Reviewers who hail the film as a great début and rank the Coens with Welles, Spielberg, Hitchcock, and...
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Blu-Ray Review: The Princess Bride
Director: Rob Reiner Screenplay: William Goldman Based on a Novel by: William Goldman Starring: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, André the Giant, Fred...
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DVD Review: Stories We Tell
Director: Sarah Polley Screenplay: Sarah Polley Starring: Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley Producer: Anita Lee Country: Canada Running Time: 108 min Year: 2012 BBFC Certificate: 12 ****½...
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New Annie trailer lacks dance numbers. Maybe they did it on purpose?
Musicals are not typically my thing but even my coal heart couldn’t say no to the adorableness of Quvenzhané Wallis in the upcoming Annie remake. Wallis stars as the titular character, an orphan girl...
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Review: The Fault in Our Stars
Director: Josh Boone (Stuck In Love) Screenplay: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Webe, John Green (book) Producer: Brendan Prost Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern, Sam...
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Review: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Director: Ned Benson Writer: Ned Benson Producers: Cassandra Kulukundis, Todd J. Labarowski, Emanuel Michael Starring: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Ciarán Hinds, Isabelle Huppert, William Hurt,...
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VIFF 2014 Review: Still Life
For most of us, death is a reality we don’t give much attention to. We’ll all do it eventually but it’s not something most of us want to be reminded of but in the case of John May, death really is his...
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VIFF 2014 Review: Preggoland
You know that moment when you realize you’re so deep into a lie there’s no easy way to turn back? Preggoland is exactly that. Except it’s also much more than that. Sonja Bennett stars as Ruth, a...
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VIFF 2014 Review: Force Majeure
Relationships can survive through a lot but there are some things that are just too difficult, if not impossible, to get over. In Force Majeure, writer/director Ruben Östlund tackles one of those...
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Blindspotting: East Of Eden and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf - Row Three
There are some who believe that Good and Evil are two very distinct objectively defined entities and that things and ideas are black or white, true or false, moral or immoral. Some would say that...
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Review: Inside Out - Row Three
How do you measure happiness? The latest Pixar movie makes a convincing argument, pitched at wavelengths that should be easily received to both to children and adults, that periods of sadness, be it...
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Review: The Closer We Get
Director: Karen Guthrie Screenplay by: Karen Guthrie Starring: Ann Guthrie, Ian Guthrie, Karen Guthrie Country: UK, Ethiopia Running Time: 87 min Year: 2015 BBFC Certificate: PG ****½ (4.5/5) I‘m very...
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Blu-Ray Review: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Director: Roy Rowland Screenplay: Dr. Seuss, Allan Scott Starring: Tommy Rettig, Peter Lind Hayes, Hans Conried, Mary Healy Country: USA Running Time: 89 min Year: 1953 BBFC Certificate: U ***½~...
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