About Time Review
A sweet natured and well done look at love and family that would drive a cynic insane, About Time from writer and director Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually) works far better than one might expect.
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Dallas Buyers Club Review
A definite high point in the still rising career Matthew McConaughey, and a very good, but lesser film in the career of Canadian director Jean-MarcVallee, Dallas Buyers Club runs a bit overlong, but it delivers a firm emotional punch at the hands of an unrepentant and initially reprehensible protagonist.
Man of Tai Chi Review
Although heavily westernized, Keanu Reeves’ fictional directorial debut Man of Tai Chi will hold some thrills and excitement for those who aren’t too picky about their martial arts epics.
Interview: Shandi Mitchell
Dork Shelf talks to Nova Scotia based writer and director Shandi Mitchell about her debut feature The Disappeared, about the differences between writing for publishing and film, her connection to the ocean, shooting on 16mm, and the recent cultural fascination with mortality under extreme conditions.
Diana Review
Short review: Diana sucks.
Longer review: It's an insultingly cliched biopic and utter waste of time that botches every single think it tries to attempt in depicting the life and tragic death of Princess Diana, reducing her work to something worse than a TV movie version of the same story starring Tori Spelling would have been.
Free Birds Review
Not funny, ugly to look at, filled with awful product placement, boring voice work, and mildly insulting historical parallels, Free Birds is a failure through and through.
Interview: Karen Walton
We talk to current Orphan Black writer Karen Walton about her debut feature, the iconic Canadian horror film Ginger Snaps - showing at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Halloween - and about the film's still growing notoriety, why her initial hesitation to write the film seems somewhat silly in hindsight, how hard it can be to be honest in horror movies, and why she’s moved by the analysis the film has received over the years.
Interview: Daniel Perlmutter
We chat with TIFF 2009 Pitch This winner, writer and director Daniel Perlmutter, about his recently wrapped comedy Big News from Grand Rock, and his film’s lengthy gestation period, why his film is a throwback to the same kinds of stories his main character is trying to make newsworthy, reuniting with one of his Pitch This mentors for his leading man, and how time flies once the film starts rolling.
Blu-Ray Round-Up: 10/28/13
This week on the home entertainment front, we take a look at new Blu-Rays for Pacific Rim, Slap Shot, R.I.P.D., High Plains Drifter, and Eyes without a Face.
TAD 2013 Review: Willow Creek
Willow Creek Straying off California’s “Bigfoot Scenic Byway,” Jim (Bryce Johnson)—an avowed Sasquatch believer—and Kelly (Alexie Gilmore)—his less-than-convinced girlfriend—take in the surreal sights of Willow Creek. The tiny community is a stone’s throw from where the infamous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage was shot in the 1960`s. After lunching on “Bigfoot burgers,” admiring comical murals and listening […]
TAD 2013 Review: Big Bad Wolves
Big Bad Wolves It’s easy to see why Quentin Tarantino would be so quick to anoint the Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves as his favourite film of the year, because with 75% of the film’s non-stop dialogue made up of oh-so-witty tangential asides or alpha male posturing it fits in quite nicely with the worst […]
The Counselor Review
It’s hard to think of a film that will be more openly divisive between critics, and yet no one in the general public would see or even necessarily enjoy all that much than Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor. I have no idea who this movie is aimed at pleasing or entertaining outside of McCarthy himself, but I’m kind of glad it exists. I think.
The Summit Review
The documentary The Summit, looks back on the deadliest 48 hours in the history of people climbing K2, and while it's consistently thrilling, it’s saddled with a bizarrely Rashomon-styled structure that gives the film an oddly directionless feeling.
Escape from Tomorrow Review
Despite a problematic narrative that never quite comes together on a thematic level, there's no denying that Randy Moore's shot at Disney on the sly Escape from Tomorrow is any less of a marvelous technical achievement.
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Review
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa mixes classic Johnny Knoxville styled humour with old fashioned on-camera pranking and a healthy dose of good natured silliness.
