Radio Free Albemuth Review
There’s a defining earnestness and conviction that carries the ultra-low budget Philip K. Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth a long way.
Doc of the Dead Review
Doc of the Dead might feel a couple of years too late to cash in on the zombie craze, but it's still a fun and comprehensive look at why people are so drawn to all things undead.
Made in America Review
The Jay-Z fronted/Ron Howard directed concert documentary Made in America could have just as easily been titled Made by Anybody. It’s a puff piece designed solely to play up the brands of every artist involved.
This Week at The Bloor: 7/11/14
There's only one new film at The Bloor this week - the okay, but very niche look at tailoring Men of the Cloth - but there's still a ton of great events going on at the cinema over the next seven days.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Review
A slight step above its rather silly predecessor, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes decides to go the deathly serious route instead of keeping things light and fun with decidedly mixed results.
Begin Again Review
Begin Again, filmmaker John Carney’s musically minded feature length follow-up to the genuinely charming Irish sleeper hit Once, has all the energy, talent, and drive of a dire, out of tune cover band that has deluded itself quite terribly into thinking all its members are swaggering rock and roll gods and goddesses.
Life Itself Review
While it might not tell people who read Roger Ebert's memoir too much they didn't already know, the documentary Life Itself is a powerful work of deep empathy and human emotion that the late film critic could be proud of.
Eisner Watch: High Crimes
High Crimes has it all: Murder, intrigue, death-defying heights, and a pair of compelling leads who are just as much of a mystery as the one they've accidentally stumbled onto.
Warren United Review
Set against the backdrop of UK soccer fan culture, the animated series Warren United is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise dismal summer comedy season.
Borgman Review
The offbeat Dutch thriller Borgman aspires to a deeper kind of profundity than it can adequately pull off.
Manakamana Review
Manakamana gives patient and thoughtful viewers a lyrical, quiet, hypnotic, and inviting open reading of seemingly mundane trips amid the Nepalese mountains.
This Week at The Bloor: 7/4/14
This week at The Bloor brings the premiere of the latest from Paradise Lost director Joe Berlinger, the solid Whitey: The United States v. James J. Bulger and the rousing sports drama Next Goal Wins.
Gerontophilia Review
Bruce LaBruce, Canada’s most shocking film director and queer zombie porn auteur, has officially mellowed. That doesn’t mean he’s got nothing left to say or shout about, but it does mean that in Gerontophilia he isn’t doing it with his tongue wagging around.
It’s Only Make Believe Review
A solid B-effort, The Norwegian neo-noir It’s Only Make Believe takes its cues not only from the current miserablist state of the country’s cinema at the moment (dark, brutally realistic stories with dark morals) and the current American subgenre of crime flicks that take place in bucolic, rural locations.
Words and Pictures Review
Saying that the dreadful rom-com Words and Pictures is beneath the star power of Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche is an understatement. It's so bad people should just send them $14 cheques directly instead of seeing the film.
