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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,...
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...
Movie Review: Snow (2010)
Posted on February 23, 2012 | No Comments
Snow is the kind of failure that could only come from a genuine and heartfelt place. While there’s no denying that the film has a true and honest desire to...
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...
Listen to This! – February 18, 2012
Posted on February 18, 2012 | 4 Comments
Welcome to the second installment of Listen to This! While neither of this week’s albums get very high grades, they are both interesting listens for very different reasons, we hope...
The good, the bad, and the ugly of the PS Vita
Posted on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
I’ve been a fan of portable gaming ever since Nintendo’s Game Boy came out in 1989, but in recent years I’ve skipped on game-only systems in favour of the iPad...
Movie Review: The Grey
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
I went into The Grey expecting to see Liam Neeson play a tough dude fighting for his life against a pack of angry wolves. That’s what the marketing promised and...
Movie Review: In the Land of Blood and Honey
Posted on January 20, 2012 | 1 Comment
For her directorial debut, actress Angelina Jolie has picked one of the most ambitious types of movies, but one that feels oddly within her scope of relevance. For any director,...
Movie Review: Contraband
Posted on January 13, 2012 | 2 Comments
Similar to the upcoming film Man on a Ledge, Contraband feels like it’s trying hard to be a cool ‘70s crime-drama when in reality it’s just a very average movie...
Movie Review: A Dangerous Method
Posted on January 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
Despite being adapted from both John Kerr’s book A Most Dangerous Method and screenwriter Christopher Hampton’s stage play The Talking Cure, a film looking at the professional and personal relationships of psychoanalysts...
Movie Review: Shame
Posted on December 2, 2011 | No Comments
Director Steve McQueen’s Shame stands as the most controversial and polarizing offering of the year end awards season. An unflinching look at sexual addiction, the film finds its biggest strengths...
Movie Review: Into the Abyss
Posted on December 2, 2011 | No Comments
As a general rule Werner Herzog movies aren’t exactly heartwarming, uplifting entertainment. However, Into The Abyss might qualify as his most depressing cinematic experience and for him that’s saying a...
Review: In Time
Posted on October 28, 2011 | No Comments
The release of In Time couldn’t be more perfectly, um, timed. The latest sci-fi thriller from writer-director Andrew Niccol (Lord of War, Gattaca) takes place in a dystopian future where the rich get...
Review: The Three Musketeers (2011)
Posted on October 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
The best way to describe director Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3-D retelling of The Three Musketeers would be “delightfully silly.” Anderson (Event Horizon, Resident Evil) has created an extremely fun film that’s the exact opposite...
Review: Dirty Girl
Posted on October 21, 2011 | No Comments
Dirty Girl is a film that desperately wants to be well liked, but ends up only existing because it has a great soundtrack. It is the kind of film that seems...