Mongrel Media Archive

Amour brings us to Georges and Anne (screen icons Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva); a long married couple in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter (Isabelle...

With a dramatic swell much like a effective piece of music, the power of film always brings an interesting variety of emotions to our local movie theatres that can affect...

Being fortunate enough to live in a major metropolitan city like Toronto, the local filmgoer gets exposed to a wide variety of different films from across the globe. Opening this...

Holy Motors undoubtedly qualifies as one of those old blurb-master chestnuts that can be called a thrilling ride or a corker of a motion picture, but while it’s designed to...

In many ways Midnight’s Children, the long gestating adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 Booker Prize winning novel and high school and university syllabus staple, stands to be looked at in...

It’s extremely hard to tell a variation on the traditional addiction narrative that hasn’t been seen before. From the gritty realism of Leaving Las Vegas and Trainspotting to the swinging...

Woody Allen hasn’t really been one for sustaining any kind of momentum for longer than a single movie or two. Usually his greatest successes come in strings of three films...

Lovely Molly is yet another uninspired, crappy quality ripoff spawned by the success of The Blair Witch Project (1999). The kicker though is that Lovely Molly is actually written and...