‘Succession’ Season 4 Premiere Review: An Ominous Start To The End
It’s the calm before the storm.
Brian Cox
comPOSERS Episode 80: The Ring
We open DEcomPOSERS, the Movie SCARE podcast for Halloween 2020 with a real banger: Hans Zimmer and friends scoring the American remake of The Ring! Listen to this episode and we'll crawl out of your headphones and steal your beers.
Movies vs. Matrimony: Season 2 Round 18
Round 18 of the 2nd season of Movies vs. Matrimony!
Manhunter Blu-ray Review
Shout! Factory has produced a near-perfect Blu-ray of the 1986 cult classic Manhunter, there's just one thing that could have made it better.
Forsaken Director Jon Cassar on Catching Lightning in a Bottle with the Sutherlands
The new Western Forsaken marks the first time Donald and Kiefer Sutherland have portrayed father and son on film. Director Jon Cassar speaks about how this project came to be and what it was like to work in this genre with the powerful duo.
TIFF 2015: Forsaken Review
Foresaken TIFF 2015 Review
This Week at The Bloor: 7/4/14
This week at The Bloor brings the premiere of the latest from Paradise Lost director Joe Berlinger, the solid Whitey: The United States v. James J. Bulger and the rousing sports drama Next Goal Wins.
Contest: Win CORIOLANUS on Blu-ray!
Enter for a chance to win one of three copies of Coriolanus on Blu-Ray courtesy of Dork Shelf and D Films.
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster Review
Featuring a great leading performance from Scott Speedman, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster stands to be one of the best English language Canadian films in quite some time, and it marks director Nathan Morlando’s debut as a filmmaker to watch for in the future.
The Nic Cage Project: Adaptation
To celebrate TIFF’s ongoing Bangkok Dangerous: The Cinema Of Nicolas Cage series, Alan Jones has resurrected his retrospective of the actor’s work entitled The Nic Cage Project. In this edition, Jones takes a look at Charlie and Donald Kaufman's brilliantly contrived Adaptation – playing tonight at the Lightbox.
Coriolanus Review
While there probably hasn’t been much clamouring for another modern Shakespearian adaptation – meaning the dialog stays nearly word for word the same, but the setting is present day – the fact that actor and first time director Ralph Fiennes has made one of the Bard’s lesser noticed plays, Coriolanus, into such a film, seems oddly okay. With a genuine passion for theatrics and bloodlust that the world’s most noted playwright would approve of, Fiennes delivers an engrossing tale of betrayal, hatred, and revenge that manages to overcome any shortcomings he has as a novice film director.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Trailer
I'll admit, I've never been a great fan of the Planet of the Apes series, beyond the original film. And certainly it's getting quite tiresome to see remakes, reboots and the like coming out of Hollywood rather than more original material. But the first trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes looks rather promising.
