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  • It’s never an easy thing to live up to the expectations that everyone else has for you. It’s that much worse when your father was one of the musical voices...

    Movie Review: Greetings from Tim Buckley

    Posted on May 20, 2013 | No Comments
    It’s never an easy thing to live up to the expectations that everyone else has for you. It’s that much worse when your father was one of the musical voices...

  • Filmmaker Jill Morley found herself irresistibly drawn to boxing, much like the four other women whose stories are interwoven in this documentary. The film spans a five year period in...

    Movie Review: Fight Like a Girl

    Posted on May 18, 2013 | No Comments
    Filmmaker Jill Morley found herself irresistibly drawn to boxing, much like the four other women whose stories are interwoven in this documentary. The film spans a five year period in...

  • An improvement over the already fleet and fun J.J. Abrams re-boot, Star Trek Into Darkness delivers a solid story with very little superfluous material to drag it down and a...

    Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

    Posted on May 16, 2013 | No Comments
    An improvement over the already fleet and fun J.J. Abrams re-boot, Star Trek Into Darkness delivers a solid story with very little superfluous material to drag it down and a...

  • Big screen adaptations of beloved literary works are usually dicey affairs and with Baz Lurhman’s latest version currently in the theatres, I decided that it might be time to look...

    Blu-ray Review: The Great Gatsby (1974)

    Posted on May 15, 2013 | No Comments
    Big screen adaptations of beloved literary works are usually dicey affairs and with Baz Lurhman’s latest version currently in the theatres, I decided that it might be time to look...

  • Graceland is a gritty crime-drama that takes us into a father’s desperate quest to keep his family together by any and all means necessary. Family man Marlon Villar (Arnold Reyes),...

    Movie Review: Graceland

    Posted on May 14, 2013 | No Comments
    Graceland is a gritty crime-drama that takes us into a father’s desperate quest to keep his family together by any and all means necessary. Family man Marlon Villar (Arnold Reyes),...

  • In the almost disarmingly great Canadian romance and drama Still Mine, James Cromwell finally gets a chance to have a leading role for a chance and he ends up delivering...

    Movie Review: Still Mine

    Posted on May 14, 2013 | No Comments
    In the almost disarmingly great Canadian romance and drama Still Mine, James Cromwell finally gets a chance to have a leading role for a chance and he ends up delivering...

  • I Declare War is a unique action-thriller that is a fascinating and occasionally disturbing look at the games children play and how quickly they can turn dark when some real...

    Movie Review: I Declare War

    Posted on May 12, 2013 | No Comments
    I Declare War is a unique action-thriller that is a fascinating and occasionally disturbing look at the games children play and how quickly they can turn dark when some real...

  • Skull World rocked the recent edition of the Canadian Film Festival with its unique blend of metal and cardboard that looks at a worldwide movement of fun filled carnage. It’s...

    Movie Review: Skull World

    Posted on May 12, 2013 | No Comments
    Skull World rocked the recent edition of the Canadian Film Festival with its unique blend of metal and cardboard that looks at a worldwide movement of fun filled carnage. It’s...

  • Based on a true story centered around a series of newspaper articles about the kidnapping, extortion, torture and murder of several victims by the “Sun Gym” gang that included a...

    Movie Review: Pain & Gain

    Posted on April 27, 2013 | No Comments
    Based on a true story centered around a series of newspaper articles about the kidnapping, extortion, torture and murder of several victims by the “Sun Gym” gang that included a...

  • 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: 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...

  • 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: 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,...

  • 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: 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...

  • 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: 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...

  • 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...

    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...

  • 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: 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...

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