Noah R. Taylor

Noah R. Taylor

Associate Editor
Noah knows film. In addition to Dork Shelf, he has contributed to sites such as Indiewire and Art of the Title. His love of the medium always puts him on the side of the filmmaker when writing his reviews, so they have to go out out their way to get bad one. That being said, Noah’s opinion, while still just an opinion, is an educated one. From working in a video store, to studying film at Concordia University, acting in indie films, writing screenplays, to shooting and editing EPK material, he is a true cinephile who appreciates that when it comes to movies, no one will ever know all there is to know or see all there is to see.

Articles by Noah R. Taylor:


  • September 8, 2014
    TIFF 2014: Short Cuts Canada Program 4 Review

    If there’s a unifying theme in programme 4, it’s the dichotomy of human experience. You can have the same job as somebody, the same parents, or even be in love with someone, and yet still experience the world in a completely different way. In Broken Face , a war veteran is “reintegrated into society” with […]

  • September 7, 2014
    TIFF 2014: Teen Lust Review

    Teen Lust Contemporary World Cinema Blaine Thurier’s teen sex comedy Teen Lust  is the last thing Canadian film needs right now. The premise has potential, though. Neil (Jesse Carere) just turned 18, is about to finish high school, and is a virgin. That’s fine by his parents (Jon Dore and Emmanuelle Vaugier) who need an […]

  • September 2, 2014
    TIFF 2014: Leviathan Review

    Leviathan Masters Leviathan is a well acted, beautifully shot film that highlights the best of mother nature and the worst of human nature. Kolya (Alexey Serebryakov), a proud patriarch with a gorgeous Russian seaside property, is rendered helpless when a corrupt city official decides he would like the land for himself. Kolya enlists the help […]

  • September 2, 2014
    TIFF 2014: Guidance Review

    Guidance Discovery The Discovery programme at TIFF is meant to showcase emerging directors with promising futures, which is the perfect place for Pat Mills’ Guidance.  Mills not only wrote and directed the film, but also plays the lead, David Gold, a down and out actor who lies to get a job as a high school […]

  • September 2, 2014
    TIFF 2014: Two Days, One Night Review

    Two Days One Night Special Presentations Two Days, One Night , the latest film by Jean and Luc Dardenne, has one of those tidy premises that lends itself well to a concise pitch: a woman has one weekend to convince coworkers to give up their bonuses so that she may keep her job. To expand […]

  • November Man
    August 26, 2014
    The November Man Review

    Attempting to capitalize on “Brosnan-as-Bond” nostalgia, November Man is more straight-to-DVD than 007.

  • The Dog
    August 15, 2014
    This Week at The Bloor: 8/15/14

    Only one new film at The Bloor this week, a pretty good look at the inspiration behind Dog Day Afternoon in The Dog .

  • July 27, 2014
    Tarantino Says The Hateful Eight Is Back On

    Quentin Tarantino was at Comic Con in San Diego this weekend and confirmed that he will indeed be saddling up again to make his second western, the on again, off again Hateful Eight!

  • July 24, 2014
    A Master Builder Review

    Actor and writer Wallace Shawn and director Jonathan Demme attempt to do justice to Ibsen and Louis Malle with A Master Builder , but neither seem to get a handle on the material.

  • July 23, 2014
    I Origins Review

    In I Origins , writer/ director Mike Cahill uses the old cliche ”˜The Eyes Are the Mirror to the Soul’ to make something relatively original.

  • July 18, 2014
    The Purge: Anarchy Review

    The second round of The Purge is more of the same hard to believe baloney. Yet since the first film made so much money despite critics largely hating it, let’s hope audiences have learned their lesson by now.

  • April 25, 2014
    Hot Docs 2014: Bronx Obama Review

    Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have strange jobs thrust upon them because they are broke and look like somebody who has achieved greatness. Bronx Obama is an excellent documentary about how circumstances and necessity led Louis Ortiz down an unusual life path. Like so many blue collared workers, Ortiz found himself […]

  • April 21, 2014
    Hot Docs 2014: Pulp Review

    Pulp Nightvision One thing that made the Brit-pop explosion of the 90s brilliant was how every band had their own sound and image to match. There was Oasis with their balls-to-the wall Manchester working class swagger, Blur with their London educated art-rock, then there was the less easily defined Pulp, born in the unlikely town […]