Movies

Movie Review: Cirque du Soleil – Worlds Away
Posted on December 29, 2012 | No Comments
In Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away we are presented with a young couple who is separated and must journey through the astonishing and dreamlike worlds of Cirque du Soleil to...
Movie Review: The Central Park Five
Posted on December 29, 2012 | No Comments
The year-end movie season isn’t only restricted to big budget Hollywood dramas or micro-budget indies looking for golden statues, as there are a myriad of documentaries hitting cinemas. Now playing...
Interview: David Chase talks ‘Not Fade Away’
Posted on December 28, 2012 | No Comments
It seems a bit odd following his groundbreaking work on HBO’s The Sopranos, but at age 68, Not Fade Away marks series creator David Chase’s big screen debut as a...
Movie Review: Django Unchained
Posted on December 25, 2012 | No Comments
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, we meet Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty...
Movie Review: Parental Guidance
Posted on December 25, 2012 | No Comments
The new Billy Crystal and Bette Midler comedy Parental Guidance is the definition of the term critic proof. It’s purposefully designed to pander to a very specific audience that will...
Movie Review: The Guilt Trip
Posted on December 20, 2012 | No Comments
There’s nothing wrong with the Seth Rogen and Barbara Streisand big screen team up The Guilt Trip that a new director, writer, musical score, director of photography, and production designer...
Talking with ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ director Benh Zeitlin and star Quvenzhané Wallis
Posted on December 19, 2012 | No Comments
If there’s one movie that’s truly taken the film world by storm recently (pun intended), it’s Benh Zeitlin’s extraordinary, uplifting indie hit Beasts of the Southern Wild. And, not that you...
2012 Holiday Movie Preview
Posted on December 15, 2012 | No Comments
The Hobbit officially kicked off the holiday movie season this weekend, but what about everything else opening over the next few weeks that doesn’t include wizards and dwarves? Here’s five...
Blu-ray Review: V/H/S
Posted on December 12, 2012 | No Comments
Nothing says the holiday season like a little blood-curdling horror, and with video cameras rolling at holiday parties across the land it seems only fitting to jump into a little...
Packaged Goods: The Year’s Best at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No Comments
Ah, the holidays – a time for eyeing and buying all that glitters, amazes or comes with surround sound. Even the grinchiest grinch, the snarkiest of cynics, can stand to...
Three Actors Who Teach Us About Talent
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No Comments
A film actor’s “talent” comes in different forms. As a teacher of Acting for the Camera, I see talent emerge in the most unexpected ways, and I am constantly redefining...
What’s Streaming? – Alternative Holiday Classics
Posted on December 8, 2012 | No Comments
Canadian holiday traditions may be changing, as families are curling up to watch movies during the holiday season. According to a new survey from Netflix, over half (58 per cent)...
Interview: Actor Richard Armitage talks ‘The Hobbit’
Posted on December 8, 2012 | No Comments
The title of director Peter Jackson’s long awaited return to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe after a nine year absence might be titled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey...
Blu-ray Review: Silent Night (2012)
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No Comments
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the selections on DVD and Blu-Ray are so delightful. In this remake of the 1984 horror classic Silent Night, a new generation is on...
Watch @ Home: December 4, 2012
Posted on December 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Dark Knight Rises (Blu-ray) – When Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins arrived in 2005 it changed the superhero genre forever. It was dark, it was geared towards adults, and it...