Toronto director Kazik Radwanski's Tower is a distancing look at personal neuroses and crushed dreams told almost through the lens of a cinematic dissassociative disorder, and it's every bit as electrifying and quietly unsettling as it sounds.
Much maligned Kojima character Raiden gets a chance for redemption in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, an electro sword-powered, outsourced adventure handled by beloved absurdity lords Platinum Games. While Platinum shows much love for the series and its players, the real question is: do they have any respect for their hero?
This week on DVD and Blu-Ray we take a look at current Best Picture front runner Argo, Leos Carax's Holy Motors, the meta-comedy Seven Psychopaths, the meta-horror films Sinister and Mimesis, RZA's kung-fu epic The Man with the Iron Fists, Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren in The Package, and the high rise Irish horror of Citadel.
This week for the archival DVD and Blu-Ray column we dive into the 3-D Blu-Ray release of Tony Scott's Top Gun, Michael Mann's The Insider, the forgotten about horror flick Schizo, and head over to the TV side of things for The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour, the second season of the Being Human reboot, and The Best of WCW Monday Nitro, Volume 2.
It's aimed very squarely at only the youngest of moviegoers, but Escape from Planet Earth will do its target demographic proud.
This follow up to the cult hit found footage flick Grave Encounters can't properly balance scares and self-reflexive cleverness. It starts of clever, but not even remotely scary. It ends with some (not so scary) frights that are just the same old, same old.
In the lugubriously titled A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Roman Coppala creates a very nice period styled comedy that keeps his characters grounded within an offbeat and purposefully bizarre framework.
We take a look at seven of the films playing at this year's TIFF Next Wave festival: Fame High, 5-25-77, Bushido Sixteen, Earthbound, Otelo Burning, Ghost Graduation, and Family Weekend.
What the hell have they done to John McClane?!?
Beautiful Creatures positions itself as the next potential post-Harry Pottery literary franchise, but while it's entertaining enough, it never quite convinces us that it necessarily needs or deserves a follow-up.
The final issue of David Petersen's Mouse Guard: The Black Axe series is out today and it is wonderful.
Today we go back to the video store for looks at Skyfall, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Sessions, and Robot & Frank.
Pitched somewhere between a documentary and a fever dream, Bill and Turner Ross’ Tchoupitoulas is one of those rare cinematic experiences: a true original. Pushing the boundaries of what qualifies as a documentary while still staying true to the purest form of fly-on-the-wall cinema verite, the film is a wholly unique experience. At once an abstract art piece and childish flight of whimsy, it’s a movie that begs to be soaked up and adored by any film lover.
Working from material far too quaint to fly in the post-Sexual Revolution world, All in Good Time is an almost painfully slight movie, but it is at least fun before vanishing almost instantly from memory.
Identity Thief is a movie so desperate for ideas to pad out it’s running time that there’s actually a scene involving snakes slithering into pants that I suppose the audience is supposed to pretend they haven’t seen a bazillion and one times before. Put simply the movie just doesn’t work, but what’s most heartbreaking about the whole endeavor is the fact that there’s no reason why a movie about identity theft mixing the talents of Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman couldn’t work.
