This Week in DVD: 2/12/13
Today we go back to the video store for looks at Skyfall, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Sessions, and Robot & Frank.
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The Music of Our (Teenage) Lives
In honour of our special teen themed week here to celebrate the release of The Perks of Being a Wallflower on DVD and this weekend's TIFF Next Wave Film Festival for teenagers, Dork Shelf has assembled a crew of writers from both inside and outside the site, a special celebrity guest, and actually teenagers on the Next Wave committee to talk about something near and dear (and sometimes embarrassing) to all of us: what we listened to when we were younger.
The New Old: Sleeping Dogs, Men, & Kids
This week, our archival title DVD and Blu-ray column returns with looks at Walt Disney's Peter Pan, Woody Allen's Sleeper, Stephen King's Cujo, and the John Ford/John Wayne romantic drama The Quiet Man.
Kickstarter of the Week: Secret Trial 5
This week's Kickstarter of the Week takes a look at the documentary The Secret Trial 5 and why they could use your help!
Cineplex’s Great Digital Film Festival
We take a look at this year's fourth annual Great Digital Film Festival from Cineplex, which kicks off in 19 theatres across Canada this Friday and how it's bringing classic Hollywood hits to the megaplex.
Daughters of the Dust
In honour of the start of the TIFF Bell Lightbox's L.A. Rebellion black cinema retrospective this week, Brandon Bastaldo takes a look back at one of the most groundbreaking films ever made by a black woman, Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust
Ten From TIFF’s Spotlight on Japan
We take a look at ten films worth checking out during TIFF's winter long spotlight on Japanese cinema throughout the years.
Woah. Keanu.
In honour of his first (and possibly only) retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (starting this Friday), and Phil Brown take a look at some of the selected works of the one and only Mr. Keanu Reeves.
Kickstarter of the Week: This Is Congo
Kicking off a new feature of the week where we focus on some of the best Kickstarter campaigns out there, we choose as our first showcase, Daniel McCabe's documentary This is Congo.
Defending the Indefensible: The Great White Hype
Those looking for a funnier way to get ready for the racial themes at work in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained who don't want to watch a bunch of Corbucci Westerns, should take a look at one of the most underrated sports comedies of all time: The Great White Hype, which comes courtesy of Unchained producer Reginald Hudlin and Samuel L. Jackson essentially playing Leonardo DiCaprio's role from QT's latest flick.
Defending the Indefensible: Silent Night Deadly Night Parts 1 & 2
In this "holiday" themed edition of Defending the Indefensible, we look at the first two films in the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise, neither of which is particularly excellent (and in the case of the sequel not even remotely okay), but both of which have interesting points worth talking about.
Defending the Indefensible: 70s Auteur Flops
As the 1970s came to a close, many of the best filmmakers of the past century nearly had their careers ruined as studios asserted more control over them during the emergence of blockbuster cinema. Here we take a look at some of those special cases: Scorsese's New York New York, Friedkin's Sorcerer, Spielberg's 1941, Cimino's Heaven's Gate, Altman's Popeye, and Coppola's One from the Heart.
Countdown to Armageddon with TIFF
Time to gear up for the end of the world, and thankfully the TIFF Bell Lightbox has all your post-Apocalyptic film-going/research needs covered.
TIFF’s Top Ten for Canada
With TIFF announcing the line-up for it's 12th annual Canada's Top Ten series in January, we take a look at their choices to represent the best of the Great White North in 2012.
This Week in DVD: 12/4/12
Looking ahead at the holiday DVD and Blu-ray shopping season, we don't like much of what we see, including Men in Black III, Hope Springs, Ted, The Bourne Legacy, Lawless, and The Odd Life of Timothy Green, but the post-apocalyptic thriller The Day is better than it has any right to be, Laurence Anyways is an exceptional Canadian film, and there's also that Batman movie from that really famous director guy.
