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Enter to win a copy of Studio Ghibli’s The Secret World of Arrietty on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack from Dork Shelf and Walt Disney Home Entertainment!
Summer Movie Preview: The Merry Month of May
Now that The Avengers has whet the appetites of Summer moviegoers, let’s take a look at the other big releases this month, including Men in Black III, Dark Shadows, Battleship, and The Dictator.
Interview: Aardman Animator Peter Lord
We talk with Aardman animation co-founder and stop motion maven Peter Lord about his latest film The Pirates: Band of Misfits, casting voice actors, the pitfalls of searching for animated perfection, and the changing landscape of his business.
Chimpanzee Review
Just in time for Earth Day, Disney Nature returns with a look at the closest primate relatives to humans.
Kids Take Over the Lightbox!
We take a look at some of the offerings at this year’s TIFF Kids Festival, running April 10th to the 22nd at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. Even though the festival is technically for kids aged 3-13, aren’t we all just kids at heart?
This Week in DVD: 4/3/12
This week, looks at several disappointing movies (Chasing Madoff, We Bought a Zoo, and The Son of No One) and one awesome Canadian TV show (Todd and the Book of Pure Evil), while Corey Atad waxes rhapsodic about the virtues of Spielberg’s War Horse.
Mirror Mirror Review
Although it boasts decent lead performances from Lily Collins and Julia Roberts, Mirror Mirror is a dreadful, pandering, and inane retelling of Snow White from Immortals director Tarsem Singh and producer Brett Ratner. It’s this year’s Sucker Punch.
Canadian Film Fest At a Glance
Dork Shelf film writers , Phil Brown, Will Perkins, and Noah Taylor take a look at some of the films playing at this year’s Canadian Film Fest, running from March 28th to March 31st at The Royal in Toronto.
This Week in DVD: 3/20/12
Between Tinker Tailor Marilyn Muppets and a Girl With a Dragon Tattoo there’s a lot to cover this week in DVD.
John Carter Review
On top of making back a gargantuan, near quarter of a billion dollar budget, John Carter isn’t exactly the easiest sell in the world even by mega-blockbuster standards. It’s extremely literate to the point where it just might alienate audiences looking for average escapist fare.
This Week in DVD: 2/28/12
It’s a Beauty Day for DVD releases with the release of the Academy Award winning Hugo, The Kid With a Bike, and one of the best films of last year. Also, Johnny English Reborn and the Canadian action thriller Bounty Hunters.
This Week in DVD: 2/7/12
This week on DVD we go nose to nose with Lady and the Tramp, shot for shot in the Texas Killing Fields, word for word with Anonymous, and puff for puff with A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas.
This Week In DVD: 1/24/12
In our first weekly column about upcoming and current DVD and Blu-ray releases, we go toe to toe with boxing robots in Real Steel, ghosts in Paranormal Activity 3, cancer in 50/50, and sex traffickers in The Whistleblower.
Interview: Real Steel director Shawn Levy
We talk to Real Steel director Shawn Levy about the challenges of making a film about robot boxing and the DVD release of his latest film.
Beauty and the Beast 3D Review
Beauty and the Beast returns to the big screen this weekend (with a 3-D retrofitting) just a shade over 20 years after its initial release and several years after an extended cut of the film made the rounds. The film – which was one of my fondest childhood movie going experiences – holds up nicely in a thematic sense, with as much love for cinematic craft as Hugo and The Artist, but while the 3-D does add to the film, the HD transfer makes a case that maybe not all hand drawn animated films should be toyed with.
