Yves Saint Laurent Review
The fashion world biopic Yves Saint Laurent is studiously useless and about as deep and as much fun as reading the back of a baseball card for 106 minutes.
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The Giver Review
Both slavishly faithful to and thematically distant from Lois Lowry's almost seminal early 90s young adult bestseller, The Giver stands as proof that not every iconic text can work as a coherent film.
Let’s Be Cops Review
Although press were forbidden from seeing it before release (and well before this week's events in Missouri), the screwball comedy Let's Be Cops isn't that bad. It just isn't laugh-out-loud funny.
Interview: Randy Couture
We talk to former MMA fighter turned actor Randy Couture about returning for The Expendables 3, acting alongside other fighters, and why he and Dolph Lundgren could never fit in a tank.
Interview: Emmanuel Shirinian
We talk to Emmanuel Shirinian, director of the Canadian black comedy It Was You Charlie about his film's unlikable character, creating a time shifting narrative, his influences, and creating a different kind of brotherly dynamic.
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.
Home Entertainment Review: Point Blank
Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) – Sometimes you just have to go back to the bare basics to get the job done and get it done right. There’s nothing complicated about revenge films. They’re about as straight forward of an idea and emotion that you are bound to come across, and 1967’s Point Blank, the […]
Home Entertainment Review: Bears
Bears (Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey, 2014) – While Disneynature and the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund are certainly doing some good things and raising awareness, the yearly documentaries that they end up producing are a mixed bag. Standing alone as a nature documentary, Bears features some amazing photography, but the cutesy narration ends up making the […]
Home Entertainment Review: Filth
Filth (Jon S. Baird, 2014) – It’s possible that Irvine Welsh’s novel Filth might have been unfilmable, but that certainly didn’t stop writer and director Jon S. Baird from trying. It’s an admirable attempt to encapsulate a decent into abject madness and abasement at the hands of one of Welsh’s most memorably misanthropic creations, if it’s not […]
Home Entertainment Review: Need for Speed
Need for Speed is both better than any racing video game adaptation really has any right to be and yet it’s still better than what most who see it will be expecting. It’s a loud, brash, somewhat silly throwback to simpler times. It’s a delightfully old school thrill ride made with the kind of brazen disregard […]
Into the Storm Review
Into the Storm might not necessarily be a “good” movie, but it is certainly a thrilling, exciting, entertaining, and impressive one.
The Hundred-Foot Journey Review
The Hundred-Foot Journey is a charming, unabashed crowd pleaser that’s as simple as the title suggests that comes with its heart on its sleeve.
Play It Again, TIFF
Anchored by a week long run of a restoration of The Godfather Part II, the TIFF Bell Lightbox takes a look at some of history's greatest sequels with their latest film series.
This Week at The Bloor: 8/8/14
Three vastly different, but good films open at The Bloor this week. The entertaining expose An Honest Liar, a look at the stigma of addiction in The Anonymous People, and the emotional, personal, and impressionistic Elena.
Step Up All In Review
The Fast and the Furious franchise + the spirit of iconic choreographer Busby Berkeley + Josie and the Pussycats = Step Up All In.
