Without Shepherds Pakistan is a country that so many have heard about, or read about, or seen on the news, and the impression here in the West is that it’s of some kind of hellhole where the people are religious fanatics and the government is evil. It’s been called the most dangerous country in the […]
Confession of Murder South Korean cinema is known for its wild nature, fluctuating between polar opposite tones and often featuring extreme content. While often this is in the service of something dark and altogether nasty, designed to make audiences uncomfortable at the idea of enjoying themselves, Jeong Byeong-Gil’s Confession of Murder is all about the […]
The Rocket The Rocket’s narrative is deceptively simple: after Ahlo’s twin brother dies as a stillborn, the young Lao boy must prove to everyone that he isn’t the harbinger of misfortune, despite a string of tragic events that chases his family out from one unwelcome village to another. They find a drought-stricken village conducting a […]
Farah Goes Bang It’s all girl talk and political idealism in Farah Goes Bang, a coming-of-age road movie about Farah (Nikohl Boosheri), a recently graduated Iranian-American who seeks to quietly lose her virginity, sans embarrassment. Alongside the politically conscientious Roopa (Kiran Deol) and the short-tempered K.J. (Kandis Erickson), Farah goes on a campaigning trip for […]
Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo is the third of four films released in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy. Fourteen years after the third impact, Shinji awakens to a world he does not recognize. His body has not aged a single day. Earth lies in ruins, and those he […]
Linsanity There isn’t a sports fan across the globe that isn’t at least somewhat familiar with the remarkable story of Jeremy Lin. Linsanity allows fans a glimpse at the man whose boyhood dream of play pro basketball came true, but it slants into areas that it doesn’t need to. From a humble background to an […]
The Kirishima Thing The complexities of high school set the stage for this unconventional drama set in modern Japan. Through multiple perspectives, teens find themselves affected by a missing classmate, who’s central to the story but never seen. The Kirishima Thing goes about investigating his mysterious disappearance. The ensemble film begins on a Friday with […]
In honour of the huge David Cronenberg exhibit and retrospective currently happening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto (running until January 19th), Dork Shelf talks to a plethora of film writers, personalities, programmers, podcasters, and filmmakers about what their favourite Cronenberg films are.
We talk to Toronto's own Sarah Gadon about her work as a juror for this year's Air Canada enRoute Film Festival, devoted to bringing some recognition to up and coming short filmmakers.
Dork Shelf talks to Kill Your Darlings director John Krokidas about humbling your idols, the Beat Generation, youthful ambitions, working with Daniel Radcliffe, and wondering aloud about Glen Danzig’s past
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.
Ender's Game might be the perfect example of why sites like Rotten Tomatoes or even simple grading systems should be abolished in film criticism. It's a film that gets just as much right as it does wrong, delighting and maddening in almost equal amount. It defies recommendation and condemnation in the same breath, but it sure is interesting to talk about in depth.
Lazy and forgettable, the tagline for this geezers in Vegas comedy should have been "What happens during Last Vegas stays in Last Vegas."
Famed First Nations filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin takes a look at one Northern Ontario community's decade long fight for a new school in the documentary Hi-Ho Mistahey!, a suitably rabble-rousing and eye opening look at how the Canadian government has turned a blind eye to a community in need of something that should be seen as a basic human right.
This week, the Bloor showcases the off the mark, but well meaning look at the widening gap between the rich and poor in the US, Inequality for All and the delightful and poignant look at artists in love, Spring & Arnaud
