Good Kill Review
Good Kill examines the fascinating world of drone pilots and modern warfare, but the promising premise falters in the final act.
Ethan Hawke
CONTEST: See GOOD KILL in Toronto or Vancouver
Good Kill, starring Ethan Hawke is flying into theatres across the country on May 15th and we're giving away tickets to advanced screenings in Toronto or Vancouver on May 14th.
Home Entertainment Review: Boyhood
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014) – Boyhood has received a lot of free marketing and curiosity from its central stunt of filming a single actor over the course of 12 years to capture an entire childhood in a single feature. However, Richard Linklater’s latest is far from a parlor trick. It feels like a culminating, career-capping […]
CONTEST: Win BOYHOOD on Blu-Ray!
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Boyhood on Blu-Ray, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Mongrel Media!
TAD 2014: Predestination Review
Predestination The latest film from Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead, Daybreakers) manages to be the duo’s best yet: a reworking of the Robert Heinlein short story “All You Zombie” that feels right at home alongside similarly minded time travel crime thrillers Minority Report and Looper, coming out slightly better than the latter and not quite […]
TIFF 2014: Good Kill Review
Good Kill Special Presentations Voltage Pictures had a huge hit six years ago with The Hurt Locker. This year they deliver a very different kind of war movie with Good Kill. Ethan Hawke plays Tommy Egan, an ex fighter pilot who now fights terrorists 7000 miles away as a drone pilot based in Las Vegas. While the bomb […]
TIFF 2014: Seymour: An Introduction Review
Seymour: An Introduction TIFF Docs While Ethan Hawke is certainly more well-known for acting work in films from Dead Poets Society to the recent, brilliant Boyhood, in Seymour: An Introduction, he steps behind the camerafor a documentary about pianist Seymour Bernstein as he discusses a career and a life overtaken by music. Bernstein isn’t terribly […]
CONTEST: See BOYHOOD Across Canada!
Enter for a chance to win run-of-engagement passes to see Richard Linklater's Boyhood - opening in most major Canadian cities this Friday - courtesy of Dork Shelf and Mongrel Media!
Interview: Ellar Coltrane
We talk to Boyhood star Ellar Coltrane about playing the same role for 12 years and growing up on screen under the direction of Richard Linklater.
CONTEST: See BOYHOOD in TORONTO or VANCOUVER!
Enter for a chance to win a pair of run-of-engagement passes to see Richard Linklater's Boyhood in Toronto or Vancouver and a copy of the film's soundtrack, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Mongrel Media!
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.
Boyhood Review
Few films ever earn the right to be called a masterpiece. Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a masterpiece.
Interview: Richard Linklater
We talk with acclaimed American filmmaker Richard Linklater about his twelve year experience making Boyhood, his process, framing his epic story, the casting of Ellar Coltrane, the evolution of technology, parenting, and people’s reactions to the film.
CONTEST: See an Advance Screening of BOYHOOD in Select Cities
Enter for a chance to win a pair of passes to an advance screening of Richard Linklater's Boyhood in Toronto on July 17th, Vancouver on July 23rd, Edmonton on August 11th, or Winnipeg on August 13th, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Mongrel Media.
Blu-Ray Round Up: 11/4/13
This week brings looks at some leftover spooks, 'splosions, and some romance as we transition from Halloween in to the deeper recesses of fall. We look at Roland Emmerich's latest blockbuster White House Down, John Carpenter's underrated In the Mouth of Madness, James's Wan's surprise megahit The Conjuring, Richard Linklater's trilogy capping Before Midnight, and Neil Jordan's unjustly slept-on Byzantium.
