Ben Affleck
The Accountant has all the pieces of a fun puzzle, we just never get to see the big picture.
Suicide Squad Review
There's no rest for the wicked in Suicide Squad , one of DC's cooler properties that gets it's edges rounded off in another misfire.
Thought Bubble: Zack Snyder Hates Heroes
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a perplexing combination of source material and director.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Review
Batman v Superman is Zack Snyder's messy vision through and through, but he sticks to his guns and manages to retroactively improve Man of Steel .
Home Entertainment Review: Gone Girl
Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) – Based on Gillian Flynn’s best selling novel and directed by David Fincher, Gone Girl has all the hallmarks of an awards courting prestige movie on paper. Thankfully, their movie was nothing of the sort. It’s a gleefully trashy, twisty, nasty, lurid little thriller filtered through Fincher’s meticulous visual style […]
Gone Girl Review
It's hard to talk about David Fincher's Gone Girl without spoiling it, but rest assured that it's a blast.
Runner Runner Review
The tepid potboiler Runner Runner is so dull and hopelessly cliched the only reaction one can really give it is a raised eyebrow and a facial expression that says "Really? That's it?"
Blu-Ray Round-Up: 8/5/13
This week at the video store we check out new Blu-Rays for recent releases Trance , To the Wonder , Oblivion , and Olympus Has Fallen , and two new Criterion releases for The Devil's Backbone and Lord of the Flies .
To the Wonder Review
It's as hard to clearly decipher as any other Terrence Malick film since Badlands , but when dealing with a subject as irrational as love like he does in To the Wonder it's fitting and beautiful in equal amounts.
Interview: Olga Kurylenko
We sit down with actress Olga Kurylenko about her work with Terrence Malick on his latest poetic opus To the Wonder and about finding her character, why the role was a difficult one, and what it's like working with an icon of American cinema.
Argo Review
In Argo , the exciting and fast paced third feature for actor Ben Affleck as a director, a silver screen scam job comes to actual theatres with the filmmaker starring as Mendez, whose best plan to rescue the trapped diplomats comes in the form of bringing them together as a fake movie crew under the guise of being location scouts for a big budget sci-fi epic.
TIFF 2012 Reviews: Part 6
As TIFF 2012 finishes up its first weekend, our ongoing coverage looks at The Master , To the Wonder , High Park on Hudson , End of Watch , Aftershock , Sightseers , The Crimes of Mike Recket , No One Lives , and Midnight's Children .
TIFF 2012 Reviews: Part 4
Day four of our TIFF 2012 coverage rolls on with the festival's second day and looks at Argo , The Company You Keep , West of Memphis , At Any Price , Berberian Sound Studio , Imagine , and All That Matters is Past .
The New Old: Sowing Season
This week, our archival DVD column looks at various stages of growing up with looks at Good Will Hunting, High Fidelity, and Adventures in Babysitting , and a look at the volatile nature of change in The Proposition .