Movies

The Myth of ‘Manborg’
Posted on April 16, 2013 | No Comments
After bowing at Fantastic Fest and Toronto After Dark in 2011, the little independent no-budget Canadian film that could has been chugging along and building a fairly large cult following...
Movie Review: Upstream Color
Posted on April 15, 2013 | 3 Comments
This movie stays with you for days after watching it, as only the most interesting stories do. Writer/director/actor/composer Shane Carruth garnered much attention with his first feature Primer. His much...
Interview: Derek Cianfrance talks ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’
Posted on April 14, 2013 | No Comments
In a boardroom on the basement level of Toronto’s Intercontinental Hotel the morning after the debut of his latest film at TIFF, writer and director Derek Cianfrance is incredibly relaxed...
What’s hot this weekend at ReelWorld 2013
Posted on April 13, 2013 | No Comments
Toronto’s own Tonya Lee Williams, who many will recognize as Olivia from the Young and the Restless, founded the not-for-profit ReelWorld Film Festival in 1999, running this weekend at the Famous...
Movie Review: The Place Beyond the Pines
Posted on April 12, 2013 | 1 Comment
It’s almost impossible to talk about what does and doesn’t work about The Place Beyond the Pines without spoiling anything. Much like the undercurrent of long gestating retribution that infuses the...
Movie Review: 42
Posted on April 12, 2013 | No Comments
I adore Brian Helgeland’s Jackie Robinson biopic 42 for what it is. It’s the ultimate provocation for a cynic to pull their hair out over. It’s a rousing spectacle and unabashed...
Movie Review: Like Someone in Love
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No Comments
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, known best for Certified Copy, directs the Japanese/French art-house film Like Someone In Love. It’s a drama about a series of gradually escalating events/misunderstandings that happen...
A look at TJFF 2013
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No Comments
The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is always an exceptional week in the city’s cultural calendar, with so much ante being upped that other fests have their work cut out for...
Interview: John C. McGinley talks 42
Posted on April 9, 2013 | No Comments
A lifelong baseball fan, beloved actor John C. McGinley was already extremely familiar with the story of Jackie Robinson before signing on to appear in the big screen version of...
Interview: Kirk Caouette talks ‘Hit ‘n Strum’ (+ review of the film)
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No Comments
You may have read Dave Voigt’s ouchie 1-star review of Hit ‘n Strum a few days ago here on Criticize This! and thus be surprised that I give it 4...
Movie Review: The Sapphires
Posted on April 7, 2013 | No Comments
Many films have gotten by on sheer likability, great performances, and a killer hook, but few looks as good doing it as the Australian period-comedy-drama-musical The Sapphires. It’s most certainly not a...
Movie Review: Love, Marilyn
Posted on April 5, 2013 | 3 Comments
Love, Marilyn is a 2012 documentary based on Marilyn Monroe’s personal notes described in the 2010 book Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. I’ll take you through the good, the bad...
What’s Streaming? – Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Posted on April 5, 2013 | No Comments
Unless you are a hardcore movie fanatic you may not know each title that is available for streaming on Netflix Canada. And with consumers increasingly aware of their data caps,...
Movie Review: Hit ‘n Strum
Posted on April 5, 2013 | 1 Comment
Typically when a smaller, independent film launches in this great country of ours, it will start in Toronto and then spread out across the rest of the nation…but not always....
Movie Review: Evil Dead (2013)
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No Comments
When approaching first time feature director Fede Alvarez’s remake of Sam Raimi’s iconic 1981 exercise in gruelling terror, Evil Dead, do not expect a Raimi film. Expect a different, modernized...