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Movie Reviews
Review: Queen of the Sun
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsBees have been the quiet saviours of the agricultural sector for about 10,000 years. In addition to providing the world with flowers, honey, and wax, they also help to pollinate close to 40% of all the food we eat. Without bees...
Review: The Change-Up
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsI went into The Change-Up expecting something along the lines of Big, 18 Again, or even Freaky Friday. And although the premise of two people switching bodies is similar to...
Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsRise of the Planet of the Apes is an almost equally terrific and awful film. It may have fewer brains than this summer’s Transformers film and none of it will make a lick of sense to anyone who stops and...
Review: The Devil’s Double
Posted on August 5, 2011 | 4 CommentsDominic Cooper really deserves an award or medal of some kind for his performances in The Devil’s Double. As the man who is forced into servitude by Saddam Hussein’s crazed son Uday, Cooper...
Review: The Future
Posted on August 4, 2011 | No CommentsFilms like The Future probably shouldn’t be reviewed by critics as ‘films’. The latest from writer/director/performance artist Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) is most assuredly a piece of art from the mind...
Review: Another Earth
Posted on July 29, 2011 | No CommentsAnother Earth is by far the biggest surprise at the cinema this year. Its blend of quiet emotion and heartfelt performances, along with a solid underlying sci-fi story, haunted me...
Review: Cowboys & Aliens
Posted on July 29, 2011 | No CommentsCowboys & Aliens is a passable, but mostly underwhelming melding of the science fiction and the western genres from Iron Man director Jon Favreau. It is passable as entertainment, but for a big budget blockbuster...
Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Posted on July 29, 2011 | No CommentsCrazy, Stupid, Love. is a perfectly serviceable romantic comedy that doesn’t exactly offer anything new to the genre, but it at least has more laughs and good will than any...
Review: Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsFor his directorial debut, actor Michael Rapaport (Higher Learning, Bamboozled) chose to profile hip-hop super-group A Tribe Called Quest just as the previously dissolved band was getting ready to hit the road again in 2008....
Review: Attack the Block
Posted on July 27, 2011 | No CommentsAt first glance the UK import Attack the Block might bear more than a passing resemblance to this summer’s Super 8. Both involve bands of children and young adults forced to confront alien invasions in their...
Review: Captain America: The First Avenger
Posted on July 22, 2011 | 3 CommentsFans of comic book films should find plenty of reasons to rejoice with this week’s release of Captain America. Smartly crafted and appropriately cheesy, Cap might be the first superhero since Spider-Man...
Review: Friends With Benefits
Posted on July 22, 2011 | No CommentsComing hot on the heels of January’s No Strings Attached (and to a lesser extent last year’s Love and Other Drugs), Friends With Benefits arrives in theatres this week with an eerily similar title and almost the...
Review: Project Nim
Posted on July 21, 2011 | No CommentsMuch like his last documentary, the stunning Man on Wire, director James Marsh’s latest film, Project Nim, plays almost like a heist film. Only this time, instead of pulling off an incredible...
Review: The Last Mountain
Posted on July 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe Last Mountain is a well constructed and argued social advocacy documentary that focuses on the unsustainable and environmentally damaging practice of mountain top mining. The previously outlawed coal mining method, made legal in...
Review: Missing Pieces
Posted on July 17, 2011 | No CommentsMissing Pieces, from debuting filmmaker Kenton Bartlett, is an original romantic mystery that will pay off greatly for attentive and patient viewers. Bartlett, who also wrote the film and made...