Movie Reviews

Movie Review: Ginger and Rosa
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No Comments
In the midst of the tent pole blockbusters and high profile films, there are occasionally some hidden gems that just creep up and grab you. Ginger and Rosa is an...
Movie Review: Miami Connection
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No Comments
Miami Connection is an extremely special kind of film. So special, in fact, that it’s almost impossible to figure out where to begin. Long thought lost to the sands of...
Interview: Director Sally Potter talks ‘Ginger and Rosa’
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No Comments
With Ginger and Rosa currently playing in Toronto, we were lucky enough to chat with writer-director Sally Potter about the autobiographical nature of the story, her filmmaking process, and how...
Movie Review: Spring Breakers
Posted on March 29, 2013 | No Comments
Bound to be misunderstood in many circles and open to almost boundless analysis about its motives, Spring Breakers definitely feels every bit the brainchild of out-there auteurist Harmony Korine (Gummo,...
Movie Review: Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives
Posted on March 29, 2013 | No Comments
It’s not commonly practised in any mainstream settings very much anymore, but if having a midwife by the bedside of a pregnant woman wasn’t good enough for almost all of...
Movie Review: Wake in Fright
Posted on March 29, 2013 | No Comments
Although bearing the name more akin to a horror film, Canadian director Ted Kotcheff’s long thought lost 1971 sun-soaked and booze fuelled psychological drama Wake in Fright has seen quite...
Movie Review: Beyond the Hills
Posted on March 28, 2013 | No Comments
For his follow up to the harrowing female friendship at the heart of his previous film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu explores a possibly...
Movie Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Posted on March 28, 2013 | No Comments
Full of whiz-bang special effects, wall to wall explosions, and pithy one liners, G.I. Joe: Retaliation manages to be more fun than its predecessor while simultaneously making less sense. It...
Movie Review: Olympus Has Fallen
Posted on March 22, 2013 | No Comments
It’s so strange seeing so many critics making obvious, sometimes favourable comparisons to Die Hard in their reviews of the first of two “White House under siege” movies this year, Olympus Has...
Movie Review: The Croods
Posted on March 22, 2013 | 1 Comment
Infinitely far from the “Ice Age with humans” pitch made by the film’s ad campaign, The Croods is an exceptional family adventure that rises above a plot cribbed from countless Disney films...
Movie Review: Admission
Posted on March 22, 2013 | No Comments
While Tina Fey and Paul Rudd have done just fine on their own comedically, the winning comedy Admission feels like a grad school course in wit run by two consummate...
CFF 2013 Review: Skull World
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No Comments
With its world premiere at the Canadian Film Festival on Friday, March 22 the documentary Skull World introduces us to a man unique unto himself whose hobbies and creative outlets...
CFF 2013 Preview: The Storm Within, The Disappeared, and Mr. Viral
Posted on March 20, 2013 | No Comments
With the Canadian Film Festival (CFF) running at Toronto’s The Royal theatre from Wednesday, March 20 until Saturday, March 23, it felt like the right time to take a look...
Movie Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Posted on March 15, 2013 | No Comments
While the Vegas set magician comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone carries with it a handful of hearty chuckles and two genuine belly laughs, it has an almost shockingly mediocre hit...
Movie Review: Leviathan
Posted on March 15, 2013 | No Comments
Not much is spoken in the documentary Leviathan and not much really needs to be. Quite similarly, not much really needs to be said about the film from directors Lucien...