Movie Reviews

Blu-ray Review: Side Effects
Posted on May 21, 2013 | No Comments
It is never too early to be talking about the best movies of the year, especially when one is hitting the store shelves this week. In one of his last...
DVD Review: 7 Days in Havana
Posted on May 21, 2013 | No Comments
Always an interesting idea on paper, the concept of the anthology film never quite lives up to its potential. 7 Days in Havana is a contemporary portrait of Havana, a...
Movie Review: Greetings from Tim Buckley
Posted on May 20, 2013 | No Comments
It’s never an easy thing to live up to the expectations that everyone else has for you. It’s that much worse when your father was one of the musical voices...
Movie Review: Fight Like a Girl
Posted on May 18, 2013 | No Comments
Filmmaker Jill Morley found herself irresistibly drawn to boxing, much like the four other women whose stories are interwoven in this documentary. The film spans a five year period in...
Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
Posted on May 16, 2013 | No Comments
An improvement over the already fleet and fun J.J. Abrams re-boot, Star Trek Into Darkness delivers a solid story with very little superfluous material to drag it down and a...
Blu-ray Review: The Great Gatsby (1974)
Posted on May 15, 2013 | No Comments
Big screen adaptations of beloved literary works are usually dicey affairs and with Baz Lurhman’s latest version currently in the theatres, I decided that it might be time to look...
Movie Review: Graceland
Posted on May 14, 2013 | No Comments
Graceland is a gritty crime-drama that takes us into a father’s desperate quest to keep his family together by any and all means necessary. Family man Marlon Villar (Arnold Reyes),...
Movie Review: Still Mine
Posted on May 14, 2013 | No Comments
In the almost disarmingly great Canadian romance and drama Still Mine, James Cromwell finally gets a chance to have a leading role for a chance and he ends up delivering...
Movie Review: I Declare War
Posted on May 12, 2013 | No Comments
I Declare War is a unique action-thriller that is a fascinating and occasionally disturbing look at the games children play and how quickly they can turn dark when some real...
Movie Review: Skull World
Posted on May 12, 2013 | No Comments
Skull World rocked the recent edition of the Canadian Film Festival with its unique blend of metal and cardboard that looks at a worldwide movement of fun filled carnage. It’s...
Movie Review: Room 237
Posted on May 10, 2013 | No Comments
Room 237 is a documentary directed by Rodney Ascher, which presents several interpretations of possible hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, ranging from subtle symbolism to grand conspiracy theories....
Blu-ray Review: Mama
Posted on May 7, 2013 | No Comments
During the dead of winter we don’t always want to head out to the movie theatre, but now that spring is blooming with warmer days ahead, everything you missed during...
Movie Review: Iron Man 3
Posted on May 3, 2013 | No Comments
The summer blockbuster season is finally upon us, marking the promise of warmer days ahead. Iron Man 3 kicks of the season with the seventh overall installment in the cinematic...
Movie Review: Mr. Viral
Posted on May 2, 2013 | 3 Comments
When I told writer-director Alex Boothby that his film Mr. Viral didn’t feel stereotypically Canadian (in an interview to follow, stay tuned next week), he visibly bristled. Nonetheless, I...
Movie Review: Pain & Gain
Posted on April 27, 2013 | No Comments
Based on a true story centered around a series of newspaper articles about the kidnapping, extortion, torture and murder of several victims by the “Sun Gym” gang that included a...