Good Kill Interview: Ethan Hawke and Andrew Niccol on Depicting the Drone War
Ethan Hawke plays a drone pilot with modern warfare anxiety in Good Kill, here's our interview with Hawke and director Andrew Niccol.
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Good Kill Review
Good Kill examines the fascinating world of drone pilots and modern warfare, but the promising premise falters in the final act.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
Getaway Review
There’s nothing particularly wrong with the action thriller Getaway except that it might be a bit too sanitized and video game-y for its own good. It’s an effective, no frills chase movie with some inventive set pieces, but there’s a distinct lack of grit or immediacy to the proceedings.
The Purge Review
The Purge attempts to unravel its twists and turns slowly, but things turn to predictable and familiar fast. You know when a film that barley runs 80 minutes feels far too long that opportunities were missed all over the place.
Before Midnight Review
While openly less eventful than the two preceding films in Richard Linklater's iconic romantic trilogy, Before Midnight might ultimately be the most thoughtful and emotionally rewarding of them all.
Interview: Jason Blum
We catch up with hot young producer Jason Blum - the man who helped bring the world Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister, and this week drops Dark Skies.
