Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Review
Despite the comic trappings of its trailers, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a tall glass of dark comedy mixed with serious drama.
Billy Bob Thornton
Our Brand Is Crisis Review
David Gordon Green departs from his usual indie fare to bring us the Sandra Bullock-starring political potboiler Our Brand Is Crisis, but are we buying it?
TIFF 2015: Our Brand Is Crisis Review
Our Brand is Crisis TIFF 2015 review
Entourage Review
The Entourage movie kicks over the neat narrative piles the show swept up, only to clean everything back up again, making the film feel even more redundant and unnecessary.
Cut Bank Review
Cut Bank uses a cast, setting and story similar to some of the best work put out by the Coen brothers, but this ain't the Coen brothers.
CONTEST: See CUT BANK in Toronto
Dork Shelf and eOne Films want to send you and a guest to the Toronto Premiere of the star-studded thriller Cut Bank on Wednesday, April 1st!
The Judge Review
The Judge feels as if it were created by robots in a laboratory that were programmed to exactly pin-point the kind of legal drama that would slay in the sticks.
TIFF 2014: Cut Bank Review
Cut Bank Contemporary World Cinema Coming down somewhere between a late 90s Tarantino knock-off that has been pulled out of mothballs and a Coen Brothers homage that never should have been made in the first place, the bizarrely atonal and baffling small town crime thriller Cut Bank from first television director Matt Shakman fails at […]
Fast Five: Jim Jarmusch’s Cinema of Cool
In honour of the TIFF Bell Lightbox kicking off a retrospective dedicated to one of America's best filmmakers this week, we count down our five favourite films from the reigning king of indie coolness, Jim Jarmusch.
TIFF Announces First of Many 2014 Selections
TIFF didn't announce an opening night film alongside today's announcements of Galas and Special Presentations for their 2014 festival this September, but they announced plenty to get people excited for the event.
You Should Be Watching: 5 Miniseries to Fill the True Detective Void
Going through True Detective withdrawal? Good news! To help get you through this rough time, we’ve compiled a list of five miniseries to fill that empty spot in your heart with.
Parkland Review
As a depiction of the events on the day of American President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22nd 1963 – as well as the three days in the immediate wake of the killing – Parkland doesn’t cover any historical or narrative ground that hasn’t been touched on before, nor does it go out of its way to create melodrama.
TIFF 2013: Parkland Review
Parkland Gala Director: Peter Landesman As a depiction of the events on the day of American President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22nd 1963 – as well as the three days in the wake of the killing – Parkland doesn’t cover any historical or narrative ground that hasn’t been touched on before, nor does […]
The New Old: Battle Royale & Dead Man
In our new archival DVD column, takes a look at the splatter action classic Battle Royale, while Phil Brown takes a look at Jim Jarmusch's revisionist western Dead Man.
