About Time Review
A sweet natured and well done look at love and family that would drive a cynic insane, About Time from writer and director Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually) works far better than one might expect.
Dallas Buyers Club Review
A definite high point in the still rising career Matthew McConaughey, and a very good, but lesser film in the career of Canadian director Jean-MarcVallee, Dallas Buyers Club runs a bit overlong, but it delivers a firm emotional punch at the hands of an unrepentant and initially reprehensible protagonist.
Man of Tai Chi Review
Although heavily westernized, Keanu Reeves’ fictional directorial debut Man of Tai Chi will hold some thrills and excitement for those who aren’t too picky about their martial arts epics.
Diana Review
Short review: Diana sucks.
Longer review: It's an insultingly cliched biopic and utter waste of time that botches every single think it tries to attempt in depicting the life and tragic death of Princess Diana, reducing her work to something worse than a TV movie version of the same story starring Tori Spelling would have been.
Evil Dead: The Musical Review
Locally made megahit Evil Dead: The Musical returns to Toronto just in time for the spookiest holiday of the year in an equally energetic package at its new home in Toronto's Randolph Theatre.
Seduced and Abandoned Review
James Toback and Alec Baldwin's take on the Cannes film festival marketplace Seduced and Abandoned is a disarming look at a pair of established Hollywood players with huge egos in an industry that has seen the almighty dollar sign replace star power and authorial intent.
Free Birds Review
Not funny, ugly to look at, filled with awful product placement, boring voice work, and mildly insulting historical parallels, Free Birds is a failure through and through.
Blu-Ray Round-Up: 10/28/13
This week on the home entertainment front, we take a look at new Blu-Rays for Pacific Rim, Slap Shot, R.I.P.D., High Plains Drifter, and Eyes without a Face.
TAD 2013 Review: Willow Creek
Willow Creek Straying off California’s “Bigfoot Scenic Byway,” Jim (Bryce Johnson)—an avowed Sasquatch believer—and Kelly (Alexie Gilmore)—his less-than-convinced girlfriend—take in the surreal sights of Willow Creek. The tiny community is a stone’s throw from where the infamous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage was shot in the 1960`s. After lunching on “Bigfoot burgers,” admiring comical murals and listening […]
TAD 2013 Review: Big Bad Wolves
Big Bad Wolves It’s easy to see why Quentin Tarantino would be so quick to anoint the Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves as his favourite film of the year, because with 75% of the film’s non-stop dialogue made up of oh-so-witty tangential asides or alpha male posturing it fits in quite nicely with the worst […]
The Counselor Review
It’s hard to think of a film that will be more openly divisive between critics, and yet no one in the general public would see or even necessarily enjoy all that much than Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor. I have no idea who this movie is aimed at pleasing or entertaining outside of McCarthy himself, but I’m kind of glad it exists. I think.
The Summit Review
The documentary The Summit, looks back on the deadliest 48 hours in the history of people climbing K2, and while it's consistently thrilling, it’s saddled with a bizarrely Rashomon-styled structure that gives the film an oddly directionless feeling.
Escape from Tomorrow Review
Despite a problematic narrative that never quite comes together on a thematic level, there's no denying that Randy Moore's shot at Disney on the sly Escape from Tomorrow is any less of a marvelous technical achievement.
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Review
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa mixes classic Johnny Knoxville styled humour with old fashioned on-camera pranking and a healthy dose of good natured silliness.
TAD 2013 Review: The Last Days on Mars
The Last Days on Mars On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member on Tantalus Base believes he’s made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an […]
