Metro Manila Review
Metro Manila is made with good intentions and craft, but little idea what to do with them.
Honeymoon Review
If it had a better final third, Honeymoon would be a great horror film and relationship drama in one package.
Altman Review
A great primer on one of the greatest directors to ever live, but also a missed opportunity.
Love is Strange Review
There has never quite been a look at love like Ira Sachs' exceptional Love is Strange.
Coherence Review
It takes a while to get going, but Coherence is a brainy sci-fi tinged character study.
This is Where I Leave You Review
If you absolutely have to see one dysfunctional family drama this year, you could do worse than This Is Where I Leave You.
Doctor Who Episode 8.4 Recap
“Listen” addresses some major series issues in perhaps one of the most beautiful Doctor Who episodes yet.
TIFF 2014: Winter Sleep Review
Winter Sleep Masters Acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palm D’Or winning film is a quiet chamber drama that ironically takes the viewer on an emotional rollercoaster. Set in the rocky landscape of Turkey’s Cappadocia region, Winter Sleep examines the seemingly simple life of Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), a retired actor who runs a mountaintop hotel with estranged wife […]
TIFF 2014: Roger Waters The Wall Review
Roger Waters The Wall Special Presentations A decidedly personal venture for the former Pink Floyd mastermind, this concert film takes Roger Waters’ most iconic composition for the band – a sprawling double album about literally walling oneself off from the outside world – and expands upon those themes to look at its wartime roots. The […]
TIFF 2014: The Look of Silence Review
The Look of Silence TIFF Docs A stunning and even more wrenching companion piece to his incendiary The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence returns to the repressed feelings towards Indonesia’s bloody past and tackles them head on for one of the best films of the year. Instead of a macrocosm of […]
TIFF 2014: Before We Go Review
Before We Go Special Presentations It’s not that actor Chris Evans has made a particularly bad film with his debut effort as a director, but he’s certainly made something that aims low and still feels fairly uninspired. There’s plenty of “witty” banter, little substance that makes sense, and a pair of leads (including Evans) that […]
TIFF 2014: Adult Beginners Review
Adult Beginners Discovery On the eve of his career going to the next level, Jake (Nick Kroll) makes a single massive misstep and his life is in the dirt and he is ruined. With nowhere left to turn, he heads home to stay with his sister Justine (Rose Byrne) and her husband Danny (Bobby Cannavale). […]
TIFF 2014: Kill Me Three Times Review
Kill Me Three Times Contemporary World Cinema Kill Me Three Times looks great, but it’s a tired, done to death kind small town noir gangster/revenge flick that only sparks to life thanks to some sharp comic moments. A dental surgeon (Sullivan Stapleton) with a sexy and cunning spouse (Teresa Palmer) run afoul of a corrupt […]
TIFF 2014: Charlie’s Country Review
Charlie’s Country Contemporary World Cinema Charlie’s Country is an authentic tale of the subtle pain of racism that still exists in our world today. Charlie (David Gulpilil) lives his life in a remote Aboriginal community in northern Australia. Government intervention in the culture’s traditional way of life has left many of the residents, including Charlie, […]
TIFF 2014: Ned Rifle Review
Ned Rifle Special Presentations Ned Rifle is on a mission to kill his father in the third and final film of Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool trilogy. We’re not provided with much backstory, but suffice it to say that Ned’s parents aren’t very good people. His mother Fay (Parker Posey) is in prison for terrorism, and […]
