Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Review

In Donkey Kong's latest, you’ll bounce through a number of islands, subjugating the local fauna on the way towards reclaiming your rightful throne. You're like a furry, 500-pound Daenerys Targaryen.

No Clue Review

It was only a matter of time before Canadian TV star and stand-up comic Brent Butt would make the jump to the big screen, but while the bumbling gumshoe comedy No Clue boasts a decent mystery and story, the comedy feels like Butt trying to create a new TV series instead of a big screen star vehicle for himself.

Like Father, Like Son Review

The winner of the Jury prize at Cannes last year, Hirokazu Kore-eda's family drama Like Father, Like Son is a thoughtful, methodical and serious examination of a concept usually played humorously.

South Park: The Stick of Truth Review

A South Park video game with input from creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone carries weighty expectations. You enter thinking South Park: The Stick of Truth should leave an impact, that it won’t be good unless it so offends and delights your sensibilities that you won’t be able to look at other games the same way again. And that’s more or less what happens. Just not for the reasons you’re expecting.

This Week at The Bloor: 3/4/14

Thanks to some mid-week openings, the first of our two columns this week about what's playing at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema looks at the love letter to street photography Everybody Street, the Doc Soup selection for March La Maison De La Radio (a misfire looking into the inner workings of public broadcaster Radio France), and a look at a one night only screening of the exceptional music documentary Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This is Stones Throw Records.

True Detective Episode 1.7 Recap

Disguised as a lit trail of gunpowder leading to a jam-packed keg, True Detective is a thread of black yarn that continues to burn throughout the crowded firework factory that Nic Pizzolatto has made for us, expertly missing all the fuses and gas cans that lesser shows would ignite.

Hannibal Episode 2.1 Recap

The great mandala that is Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal is only just beginning to reveal itself. We know slightly more than the characters about the overall design, and this new territory will be adding a different nightmarish colour to our palate.

The Manstag in the Mirror: Hannibal Season One

Hannibal’s greatest strength, the one that produces the most gut-wrenching moments, is the most viscerally sterile: Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham in a room trying to destroy each other while falling irretrievably deeper into a mad sort of love.

Community Episode 5.7 Recap

A heart-filled examination of friendship that starts with Jeff and Duncan scheming selfishly, and ends around the Table Mk II with warm assurance, the bondage of honesty, and the best reference to The Shining since The Simpsons had a crack at it in the early 90’.

Son of God Review

As far as religious retellings go Son of God is a mostly passable highlight reel of the New Testament that should largely please the faithful and not bore the unconverted or disinterested to tears. It's just a shame that the first half has very obviously been cobbled together from the TV miniseries most of its footage comes from.

Omar Review

Omar (nominated for Best Foreign Film at this Sunday's Oscar ceremony) is an emotional thriller that actually works a lot better as raw drama rather than as any type of geo-political statement or message movie that it thinks it can muster.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2014: Valentine Road Review

Valentine Road Discrimination is universal and some of the most horrible examples of it are happening in our very own schools.  Valentine Road is an emotional gut punch of a film, keeping manipulation at bay and letting the story of its sadly departed victim of high school violence and those affected by it speak for […]