If the riveting old school styled thriller Side Effects truly manages to be the last film from acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh, he picked a hell of a film to go out on. It might not be the most ostentatious film in the director’s canon, but there haven’t been many thrillers this well constructed and efficient since the world lost Alfred Hitchcock.
As raw and real as being a teenager could possibly without resorting to forced theatrics or pigeonholing its characters, the documentary Only the Young is one of the best 2012 documentaries you didn't get to see last year. You should probably rectify this when it screens three times at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto this coming week.
In his first documentary and follow up to the criminally underrated black comedy You Might as Well Live, Canadian director Simon Ennis takes a touching, hilarious, and altogether excellent look at people obsessed with the moon in Lunarcy!.
This week at the video store we check out Flight, Here Comes the Boom, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Alex Cross, Les Infideles, The Inbetweeners Movie, and L'affaire Dumont.
This week, our archival title DVD and Blu-ray column returns with looks at Walt Disney's Peter Pan, Woody Allen's Sleeper, Stephen King's Cujo, and the John Ford/John Wayne romantic drama The Quiet Man.
A satisfying bit of action movie junk food more evocative of 90s action films than those from the 80s, Bullet to the Head is more notable as a return to form for action director Walter Hill than as another stepping stone along Sylvester Stallone's comeback trail.
It's easy to see why A Royal Affair is up for a Best Foreign Film Academy Award. With three incredibly strong and well defined leads, this story not only engages us in a dark an relatively unknown chapter of a country’s history but into a complicatedly lush and vibrant love story.
Cockneys vs Zombies is a delightful treat for young, old and even the possibly undead zombie-genre lovers who will no doubt left drooling from this splatter-filled film of blood, guts and brains.
Despite having a solid emotional centre and an interesting story surrounding its existence, the featurette A Silk Letter feels more in love with itself than with its characters.
Clever and extremely well directed by Jonathan Levine, the romantic zombie comedy Warm Bodies takes a plethora of different genre elements, puts them to good use, and never once hides its desires to be nothing more than pure entertainment.
While a great introduction to the plight of the West Memphis Three and the miscarriage of justice the surrounded their murder trial, West of Memphis doesn't do much that the Paradise Lost films didn't already cover (and better), and it's kind of self serving how producer Peter Jackson portrays himself. But thankfully it's an overall decent documentary and introduction to the story.
Bad Medicine Vol. 1 is a book where medicine meets mythology, blending elements of science with the supernatural to create a really interesting new series from Oni Press.
Foo Fighters frontman and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl directs his first feature, Sound City, the story of a famous Van Nuys, California recording studio with a phenomenal track record. While Grohl's a great storyteller, however, the film just can't sustain it's lengthy running time.
This week on DVD and Blu-Ray, the crew looks at Hotel Transylvania, The Imposter, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2, For a Good Time Call..., Coriolanus, Game Change, Life's Too Short, The Awakening, End of Watch, and Legend of a Warrior.
Earlier today our head film critic had his faith in movies nearly destroyed by Hansel and Gretel:Witch Hunters, tonight our other main film writer suffers the same nervous breakdown inducing fate fate at the hands of the already infamous Movie 43.
