The nostalgic documentary Greenwich Village: Music that Defined a Generation never offer audiences much more than hero worship, but considering that somehow this documentary hadn’t been made before now, we guess it’s forgivable.
Dork Shelf talked to famed Korean director Chan-Wook Park (Oldboy) about where his desire to tell such dark stories springs from, why he selected Stoker for his North American debut, the casting process, his identifying with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, and his study of film criticism and philosophy.
Oz the Great and Powerful isn’t a particularly great movie overall, but it’s never terribly unwatchable or even all that uninteresting or lacking in entertainment value. It’s the curious case of a film that just has a lot of missteps along the way that add up to an unsatisfactory whole. It's a whishy-washy, sanitized blockbuster that fails to be truly magical.
Imbued with the spirit of Robert Altman in terms of how sprawling slice-of-life epics should be handled and with a healthy dash of Luis Buñuel’s playfulness, Neighbouring Sounds is truly a wonder to behold. It’s what truly great and vital cinema should be: something more than just entertaining and thought provoking that simply washes over the audience without talking down to them or giving them easy answers.
Dick Wolf's television institution goes up north with Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, a new installment that fits comfortably into the franchise's signature mold.
We sit down with actor, writer, and director Zach Braff to talk about his dual role in Sam Raimi's hotly anticipated Oz the Great and Powerful and working with Raimi on making another tale in one of cinema’s most iconic locations, the multimedia based nature of his performance as a talking and flying primate with a jaunty hat, his memories of the original Oz, and why there hasn’t really been a follow up yet to Garden State just yet.
This month's Hot Docs Doc Soup entry The Trouble in the Peace certainly paints a pretty and swift moving picture of gas pipeline corruption in the Peace River section of B.C. and Alberta, but while it doesn't lack heart, it's definitely lacking in substance. Also, strangely enough, it comes with a tie-in video game that might deliver the message better than the film can.
Dork Shelf is ready to say goodbye to winter and checked out Xbox's spring game line-up, including BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider and Gears of War: Judgment.
Enter for a chance to win one of two copies of the Oscar winning Life of Pi on Blu-Ray, courtesy of Dork Shelf and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
We sit down with acclaimed director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam) to talk about his first foray into horror with the found footage ecological thriller The Bay.
Enter for a chance to win one of ten pairs of passes to the red carpet opening of Game of Thrones: The Exhibition in Toronto (on March 8) with series star Rose Leslie (Ygritte) in attendance courtesy of Dork Shelf and The Movie Network.
This week on home video we check out The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Wreck-It Ralph, The Intouchables, Red Dawn, The Marine 3: Homefront, The Bay, and Girls Against Boys.
Enter for a chance to win one of ten pairs of passes to an advance screening of the new comedy Admission in Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, or Vancouver on Thursday, March 21st courtesy of Dork Shelf and eOne Films.
Enter for a chance to win one of five pairs of passes to an advance screening of Stoker in Vancouver (on March 13th) or Calgary (on March 20th) courtesy of Dork Shelf and Fox Searchlight,