Like Father Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2013) – Like Father, Like Son is the kind of story that runs the full gamut of human emotions. Writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda revisits his ongoing preoccupation with family dynamics and parent-child relationships in contemporary Japan with this fascinating look at nature vs. nurture. The life of workaholic architect Ryota (Masaharu […]
Alexander: The Ultimate Cut (Oliver Stone, 2004) – The art of filmmaking is a complex beast at the best of times. A piece of cinema can be seen as a living breathing entity with a myriad of opportunities and possible outcomes inside what was shot and how it’s ultimately assembled. The best of directors struggle […]
Afflicted (Derek Lee, Cliff Prowse, 2013) – Afflicted is a fresh and thrilling found-footage take on vampire mythology that pushes the stakes higher and harder than most of its predecessors, giving the film a real sense of humanity that can easily be embraced. Best friends Derek and Clif set out on a trip of lifetime […]
Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem is a sprawling, thoughtful mess of a movie that tosses a cavalcade of ideas (both visual and philosophical) at the audience with almost reckless abandon.
The best that can be said about the high school sports drama 4 Minute Mile is that it’s perfectly competent in terms of tone and construction even at its most boring.
If one were to plot out the ranking of Woody Allen’s films from best to worst, the frothy, but hardly vital Magic in the Moonlight would show up somewhere just barely on the positive side of the dead centre.
This week at The Bloor, looks at the landmark Anita Hill sexual harassment suit and the ins and outs of breastfeeding both miss their intended marks.
Get on Up is an example of how an exceptional leading performance and stylish direction can help to overcome what’s essentially a baseline, standard sort of musical biopic.
For those of you late to this particular party, the final issue of The Wake came out this Wednesday, and it's an epic adventure worth talking about.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy stands as proof that not every summer blockbuster has to choose between self-reflexive humour and stoic seriousness.
If Hercules has one major accomplishment, it’s how it's somehow managing to be both incredibly cheesy and starved of fun at the same time.
Despite the presence of Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton in the leads, Rob Reiner's And So It Goes is as dull, formulaic, and resigned as its title suggests.
The low key thriller The Privileged and the food advocacy documentary GMO OMG return to the city after a festival screening and a previous engagement, respectively. One isn't very good, one is unconscionably terrible.
This week at The Bloor, looks at music therapy for Alzheimer's patients in the uneven, but moving Alive Inside and a rallying cry against the rich American right wing in Citizen Koch.
Luc Besson’s Lucy is a certifiably insane film, and that's mostly a positive.
