Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 2.7 Recap

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This week's episode, The Writing on the Wall, refocuses Agents of SHIELD's raison d'etre wonderfully, finally solving the mystery that has been dogging the team for the better part of a year.

Wolves Review

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There's no excuse for the werewolf movie Wolves to be as dull and self-serious as it is.

This Week at The Bloor: 11/14/14

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This week at The Bloor another strong pair of docs with the musical biography Keep On Keepin' On and the ecologically minded Emptying the Skies.

EUFF 2014: Fasten Your Seatbelts Review

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Fasten Your Seatbelts, the opening night film for this year’s free ticketed European Union Film Festival,tries to create a crazy romantic relationship dynamic, but is ultimately derailed by a narrative that has too many jarring and bizarre tonal shifts, going for a romantic farce one minute to a serious drama the next and back again. […]

Gotham Episode 1.8 Recap

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What’s most interesting about “The Mask” is how it defines it’s bare faced protagonist. Jim Gordon is been characterized as heroic because of his lack of a symbol and Gotham is a better show for it.

Rosewater Review

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With his directorial debut Rosewater, Jon Stewart shows great promise as a storyteller, but needs practice as a director.

Doctor Who Episode 8.12 Recap

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“Death in Heaven”, sadly, was a perfect example of this season’s difficulty in balancing emotional veracity with plot coherence.

Rendezvous with Madness 2014: Tapia Review

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Tapia Possibly the heaviest film playing at this year’s festival (which, given the subject matter overall, really says a lot) comes in the form of this documentary from Executive Producer 50 Cent about boxing legend Johnny Tapia. Raised on the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico and dubbed “the babyfaced assassin” in the ring, the former […]

Rendezvous with Madness 2014: No-No: A Dockumentary Review

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No-No: A Dockumentary In the early 1970s, no pitcher had more pure talent than Pittsburgh Pirate Dock Ellis. His style wasn’t pretty, but he won a lot of games for his ballclub. The problem: he didn’t really remember most of them because he was either drunk or high at the time, most infamously pitching a […]

Rendezvous with Madness 2014: Gabriel Review

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Gabriel Rory Culkin delivers one of the best performances of the year as a troubled young man rapidly losing touch with reality after his release from a mental hospital in Lou Howe’s effectively chilling psychodrama. Instead of heading directly home to his still frazzled, but loving mother (Deirdre O’Connell) and his judgemental older brother (David […]