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Movie Review: Upside Down
Posted on April 26, 2013 | 1 Comment
Upside Down is a very bad movie wrapped in a somewhat pretty looking package. It’s a botched fairy tale for the young adult set based around a universe so superficially...
Movie Review: The Big Wedding
Posted on April 26, 2013 | 1 Comment
Shortly after a scene in the abysmal comedy The Big Wedding where a character first gets the idea to lose his virginity to a character that’s technically his step sister,...
Movie Review: Casa de mi Padre
Posted on March 15, 2012 | No Comments
In recent years comedic filmmakers and television writers seem quite intent on answering the question “Just how long can we make a joke go on before it stops being funny?”...
Interview with Simon Davidson, writer-director of ‘The Odds’
Posted on March 1, 2012 | No Comments
Simon Davidson’s The Odds is a low budget, high energy look at the world of teenage gambling. Bored suburban highschoolers with little to distract them find something real and visceral...
Trish Stratus: From the wrestling ring to the movie screen (and everything in between)
Posted on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment
Former WWE wrestling “Diva” and seven time champion Trish Stratus looks different these days. That no nonsense muscled body she once had is now sleek and sinewy thanks to yoga;...
Movie Review: Gone
Posted on February 25, 2012 | No Comments
Gone comes so close to being a really decent movie that it’s disheartening to report that it doesn’t quite follow through by the end. This paranoia based thriller starring Amada...
Movie Review: Goon
Posted on February 24, 2012 | No Comments
When is the last time you saw a really awesome hockey movie? It definitely wasn’t Score: The Hockey Musical or last year’s Breakaway. No, the only really cool movie about...
Movie Review: How to Die in Oregon
Posted on February 24, 2012 | No Comments
How to Die in Oregon begins as powerful as any documentary in recent memory. An old man, very clearly in a lot of pain and surrounded by his supportive family,...
Watch This! Trailer for BBC Earth’s ‘One Life’
Posted on February 23, 2012 | No Comments
I love BBC Earth productions. The cinematography, the sound, the style of their storytelling — they always make my jaw drop and give me chills. So when I saw the...
Movie Review: The Flowers of War
Posted on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
A friend once told me that Chinese director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House of Flying Daggers) could easily be seen as his country’s Martin Scorsese. For better...
DVD Review: The Rebound
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No Comments
There are so many things wrong with The Rebound I don’t even know where to begin. I guess the biggest issue I had was trying to get my head around...
Win passes to an advance screening of ‘ACT OF VALOR’
Posted on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment
In Winnipeg, Halifax or Ottawa and want to see an advance screening of ACT OF VALOR this Thursday, February 23? Thanks to our friends at Alliance Films we have 10...
Watch This! ‘The Magic of Hugo’ featurette
Posted on February 8, 2012 | No Comments
It’s no secret I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. I despised it so much I even put it on my Worst Films of 2011 list. I...
Hey, Toronto! Win passes to an advance screening of ‘THIS MEANS WAR’
Posted on February 6, 2012 | 4 Comments
Want to see McG’s latest film THIS MEANS WAR before everyone else? We know you do because it stars Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, and the amazing Tom Hardy. Well our friends...
Watch This! Redband trailer for ‘Goon’ released
Posted on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
Goon, one of our most anticipated films of 2012, has a brand new restricted trailer and it’s got us even more excited to see the Canadian hockey comedy now. Watch it...