While certainly impressive, the North American cut of the originally 5 hour long Taiwanese epic Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale leaves a lot to be desired in the storytelling department. There are, however, plenty of decapitations.
We break out the big guns for today's Hot Docs 2012 preview with a lot of titles that have gone rush, including Indie Game: The Movie, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Detropia, Finding Truelove, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, and The World Before Her . Also looks at Sexy Baby, Mom and Me, Beware of Mr. Baker, and The Job.
Once again playing a lone bad ass assigned to taking a defenceless person under his wing while on a hunt for revenge and answers, Safe stands as a testament to Jason Statham’s magnetism that the film doesn’t feel old and tired at all.
While it will probably appeal to the most adoring fans of producer Judd Apatow and star Jason Segel, The Five-Year Engagement is a mean spirited, mostly unoriginal comedy that can never decide if it wants to pander to women or to bros, when it's a plot clearly designed to pander to the latter.
Hot Docs 2012 Preview Day 3 and the hits just keep on coming with looks at China Heavyweight , In the Year of Hip Hop , Brooklyn Castle , The Frog Princes , Finding North , Radioman , Low and Clear , and The Betrayal .
While far from historically accurate and featuring a dreadful conclusion, The Raven still holds some mindless fun thanks in part to a great leading turn from John Cusack.
In day two of our look at this year's upcoming Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, we take a look at The Queen of Versailles , Not a Carwash , Beauty is Embarrassing < /cite>, Herman's House , Despite the Gods , Oma & Bella , Ballroom Dancer , and GLOW: The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling .
Our first batch of reviews for Hot Docs 2012 are in! Today we have a look at opening night film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , The Invisible War , Wildness , Smoke Traders , Playing the Fool , Jeff , The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche , Inocente , The Great Liberty , and James Franco's Francophrenia (Or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) .
Starting with a fart joke and a direwolf mauling, "Garden of Bones" is an episode full of timely interventions and fateful confrontations, as well as one of the most disturbing cliffhangers you're ever likely to see on TV. Despite some missteps, HBO's Game of Thrones continues to be one of the most compelling shows on television with this fourth episode of the second season.
For someone missing in action for over a decade, writer/director Whit Stillman fits into the current indie comedy landscape pretty comfortably with Damsels in Distress .
Unapploagetically corny, but still a bit bland, the Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Lucky One will either delight fans of Zac Efron and Sparks or it will grate their nerves to no end.
Arriving just in time for Record Store Day, the documentary Sound It Out will appeal most to the people who still love their local vinyl and CD emporiums.
Just in time for Earth Day, Disney Nature returns with a look at the closest primate relatives to humans.
The most expensive film in Korean history, My Way proves that great battle sequences can't overcompensate from a woefully drawn out running time and a lack of original ideas.
Documentarian Morgan Spurlock turns his attention to the San Diego Comic-Con in his most well rounded and, dare we say, heartwarming film to date.
