Review: The Salvation
The American West is a harsh, cruel world – and not just for Americans. Mads Mikkelsen stars in The Salvation, a violent revenge drama centered on the plight on a Danish refugee trying to survive the...
View ArticleReview: Ex Machina
Depending on with whom you align yourself, Ex Machina may be inspiring or tragic, a warning against controlling nature or a celebration of the fluidity of consciousness and gender. Regardless of...
View ArticleReview: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Some two hours in, amid a lengthy, chaotic finale, one of our more human-like heroes in the Avengers turns to a newcomer to calm her. After all, this world of demigods and assassins and robots and...
View ArticleHot Docs 2015 Review: Elephant’s Dream
Kristof Bilsen’s Elephant’s Dream frames the urban sphere of the Congo through the lives of three workers in the region’s municipal sector. As the nation has suffered numerous severe catastrophes, the...
View ArticleReview: Far From Men
Far From Men is a savvy entry into a familiar drama, the one that finds a prisoner endearing himself to the man who is holding him captive. Two men who are seemingly different find common bond, and...
View ArticleReview: Big Muddy
Timeless, mysterious, and even dangerous are the Saskatchewan prairies, where Jefferson Monroe presents a beautifully cinematic and delightfully devilish tale of outlaw Canadiana. It’s a tense and...
View ArticleReview: Maggie
Maggie is looking for a novel way to approach the influx of zombie stories in popular culture; it has it, but can’t deliver on the premise. A bearded Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a loving, hopeless...
View ArticleReview: San Andreas
As if Californian’s real life problems aren’t enough, here comes a film that literally cuts through the plagued state and tears everything down. Never mind a drought – that’s hard to manifest in a...
View ArticleReview: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was a smash hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. This year’s Whiplash, if you will. The film was an anomaly in that it not only garnered the Grand Jury Prize, but...
View ArticleReview: Max
For as long as you grant the premise of its increasingly-absurd plot, Max will be one of the most intense and harrowing PG family film around – that could last an hour maybe,or minutes. A soldier’s...
View ArticleReview: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Let’s face it, films such as Disney’s live-action Alice in Wonderland are not for curmudgeonly critics. The film earned a whopping 300 million dollars at the North American box office in spite of...
View ArticleReview: Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings is the latest effort from stop motion animation giant Laika. It’s the first project helmed by its CEO. The set design, score, period detail and animation is wonderful, but far...
View ArticleReview: Passengers
Passengers thinks it is (and is being marketed as) an epic love story in the Titanic mold. Two gorgeous young lovers from different socio-economic classes stranded upon a sinking vessel, and, just in...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide: Disney edition
Uh oh! Christmas is rapidly approaching and you’re running out of time to try to figure out what to buy your family for the holidays. We completely understand that you have zero time to read and...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....