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- Hot Docs 2013 Preview Pt. 3: The Manor, ALIAS, and The Devil’s Lair
- Hot Docs 2013 Preview Pt. 2: Before the Revolution, In the Shadow of the Sun, and Tiny: A Story About Living Small
- Hot Docs 2013 Preview Pt. 1: The Women and the Passenger, Alcan Highway, and Furever
- Win a Blu-ray copy of CHEECH & CHONG’S ANIMATED MOVIE
- Delving into ‘Hemlock Grove’ with Famke Janssen and Dougray Scott
- Toronto Record Store Profiles: Beach Sound
- Win a HEMLOCK GROVE Netflix prize pack
- Interview: Director Todd Berger talks ‘It’s a Disaster’
- Movie Review: Wrong
- The Myth of ‘Manborg’
- Movie Review: Upstream Color
- Interview: Derek Cianfrance talks ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’
- What’s hot this weekend at ReelWorld 2013
- Movie Review: The Place Beyond the Pines
- Movie Review: 42
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Movie Review: Like Someone in Love
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsIranian 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 CommentsThe 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 CommentsA 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...
Win passes to an advance screening of PAIN & GAIN
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No CommentsOur friends at Paramount Pictures have sent over 10 double passes to advance screenings of PAIN & GAIN in Toronto and Montreal on Wednesday, April 24. Want to win? Check...
Interview: Kirk Caouette talks ‘Hit ‘n Strum’ (+ review of the film)
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No CommentsYou 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 CommentsMany 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 CommentsLove, 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 CommentsUnless 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 CommentTypically 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....
Hey, Toronto! Win passes to an advance screening of THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsOur friends at Alliance Films have sent over 10 double passes to an advance screening of the Ryan Gosling-Bradley Cooper drama THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES in Toronto on Wednesday, April...
Movie Review: Evil Dead (2013)
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsWhen 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...
Interview: Director Fede Alvarez talks ‘Evil Dead’
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsIt’s strange to think of horror directors as happy people, but the smile on first time feature director Fede Alvarez’s face can be heard through the phone. The energy and...
Movie Review: Ginger and Rosa
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsIn 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 CommentsMiami 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 CommentsWith 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...