Borgman Review
The offbeat Dutch thriller Borgman aspires to a deeper kind of profundity than it can adequately pull off.
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Manakamana Review
Manakamana gives patient and thoughtful viewers a lyrical, quiet, hypnotic, and inviting open reading of seemingly mundane trips amid the Nepalese mountains.
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.
Gerontophilia Review
Bruce LaBruce, Canada’s most shocking film director and queer zombie porn auteur, has officially mellowed. That doesn’t mean he’s got nothing left to say or shout about, but it does mean that in Gerontophilia he isn’t doing it with his tongue wagging around.
Fast Five: TIFF and the Works of Satyajit Ray
The TIFF Bell Lightbox begins a retrospective of one of the greatest and most versatile filmmakers who ever lived, India's Satyajit Ray, now through August 17th, and here are five can't miss films and events.
It’s Only Make Believe Review
A solid B-effort, The Norwegian neo-noir It’s Only Make Believe takes its cues not only from the current miserablist state of the country’s cinema at the moment (dark, brutally realistic stories with dark morals) and the current American subgenre of crime flicks that take place in bucolic, rural locations.
Words and Pictures Review
Saying that the dreadful rom-com Words and Pictures is beneath the star power of Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche is an understatement. It's so bad people should just send them $14 cheques directly instead of seeing the film.
Tammy Review
Melissa McCarthy’s first project as producer, writer, and star will most likely flop, but it’s not the abysmal failure than its curiously quiet dumping over the Fourth of July holiday in the States would suggest.
Deliver Us from Evil Review
While the validity of the “true story” at the heart of Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us from Evil can be hotly debated and contested, the film itself is a masterful work of modern horror and one of a very small handful of scary movies to be actually unsettling and terrifying.
Earth to Echo Review
The first person footage stylings of the family adventure Earth to Echo certainly aren’t covering any uncharted territory, but it’s still one of the most pleasant surprises of the summer thus far: an unpretentious Amblin Entertainment styled throwback to the 1980s told in a filmmaking style that has similarly gone out of style despite barely being over a decade old.
The Pin Review
A powerful and emotionally draining look at young Jews on the run during World War II, Naomi Jaye’s The Pin has become not only buzzworthy around the world where it has been garnering raves, but also here at home for being the only Canadian produced Yiddish film.
Me and You Review
The latest from master director Bernardo Bertolucci might be his last film, and sadly it's a bit of a disappointment.
This Week at The Bloor: 6/27/14
This week at The Bloor, The Case Against 8 takes a heartfelt and intricate look at a hot button issue, while The Internet's Own Boy stumbles in the exact opposite way.
Interview: Ben Cotner & Ryan White
We talk to filmmakers Ben Cotner and Ryan White about chronicling the four years of work that went into overturning California's ban on gay marriage in the documentary The Case Against 8.
Transformers: Age of Extinction Review
Michael Bay has done it again! And by "done it again," I mean "made a worse movie than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".
