While an intriguing and heart wrenching look at the Toronto Underground Cinema, its day to day operations, and sadly eventual closure, the documentary The Rep sometimes gets bogged down by trying to place the cinema into part of a greater dialogue about the state of repertory cinemas around the world.
Alex James is baffled as to why so many people seemed so opposed to the new direction J.J. Abrams has decided to take in his Trek films - and boy oh boy, are they ever opposed. This piece isn't so much a review of Star Trek: Into Darkness as a critical defense of ideas in an era dominated by safe choices.
Penn Badgley gives a great performance as a conflicted Jeff Buckley struggling to come to terms with his father Tim's legacy in the slice-of-life biopic Greetings from Tim Buckley, but the film is so threadbare and navel gazing that it's hard to care about anything that happens.
Despite being somewhat repetitive, the documentary Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children sheds light on the efforts of Retired Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire's efforts to stop the use of child soldiers in Africa.
Despite a great lead performance from Riz Ahmed, the decade spanning terrorism thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist sacrifices a genuinely interesting character study for rote predictability.
The Scotish whisky heist comedy-drama The Angels' Share suffers from feeling like three completely different movies crammed into one, and only one of which is compelling.
Sam Maggs shares her haul – and, of course, the wicked work of some incredibly talented folks – in her fave TCAF finds of 2013!
While it might adhere too slavishly to mob movie conventions at times, The Iceman boasts an excellent leading performance from the always great Michael Shannon that makes it worth watching.
Mud feels like a classical young adult novel from the 80s or 90s brought to life with all of the life lessons intact, and it's mostly a positive thing.
In the likeable and affectionate, but extremely scattershot fashion documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s, director Matthew Miele goes behind the scenes and behind the history of one of the most iconic shopping destinations in New York City.
This past weekend marked the 10th anniversary of TCAF, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. We take a look at some hits from the show.
In "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" it’s couples night in Westeros as we gear up for no less than three weddings. Sadly, it seems that the awards for happiest couple can go to several candidates other than the betrothed.
A step above J.J. Abrams first outing with the franchise, Star Trek Into Darkness delivers a fun story, a great villain, and an ending that will be analyzed and pondered over by fans of the series for quite some time.
Rodney Ascher's look at close readings and potential conspiracy theories within Stanley Kubrick's The Shining shouldn't work, but it does perfectly if you're a finely attuned film geek.
The title Graceland should be taken as ironic, as there are very few saving graces among the characters that inhabit this dark story. Not for the light-hearted, it's a thriller that shocks in ways no Hollywood film could ever get away with.
