film

Contest: Win CLEOPATRA on Blu-Ray!

Enter to win one of two copies of the historic, groundbreaking, and controversial Cleopatra on 50th anniversary special edition Blu-Ray, courtesy of Dork Shelf and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment!

Contest: See BLANCANIEVES in Toronto or Vancouver!

Enter for a chance to win one of five pairs of run of engagement passes to see the Spanish silent film Blancanieves in Toronto (where it opens this Friday) or Vancouver (where it opens Friday, June 7th) courtesy of Dork Shelf and D Films.

American Mary Review

A welcome slow burning character piece in horror movie wrapping, American Mary delivers one of the best genre movie antiheroes and leading female characters in quite some time.

After Earth Review

While Jaden Smith escapes the almost diabolically awful sci-fi adventure After Earth unscathed, his father Will Smith and director M. Night Shyamalan turn in the worst film of their respective careers.

Sightseers Review

Dark, strange, and deeply hilarious, Ben Wheatley's Sightseers helps to solidify the director as one of the most intriguing talents from the UK and the world today.

Interview: Liz Marshall

We sit down with The Ghosts in Our Machine director Liz Marshall to talk about documenting her friend Jo-Anne McArthur's efforts to advocate for animals caught up in the machine of modern life, how the two friend's stories paralleled each other, steeling herself to look at animal abuse, and why you don't need to be a vegan to help in the lives of animals.

Pieta Review

Pieta is idiotic, hateful, amateurish garbage that inexplicably thinks of itself as artistic and deep. It’s a miserable movie designed solely for people who gravitate towards misery, but it isn’t even interesting in that respect.

Interview: Noah Reid and Melanie Leishman

We talked to Noah Reid and Melanie Leishman, the leading actors behind the Canadian indie comedy Old Stock, about almost method acting in auditions, wearing sweater vests, dancing terribly, scooter envy, and creating likeably flawed characters. We also asked what they’re up to in the future, and talked to Leishman about the status of the Todd and the Book of Pure Evil animated film.

May’s Blu-Ray Round-up

In this month's round-up of the best in home entertainment we look at wartime classic The Great Escape, the little known Sam Raimi/Coen Brothers team-up Crimewave, the criminally underrated Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last Stand, Jackie Chan's Police Story films, the cult favourite Repo Man, Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia, and Godard's Band of Outsiders.

Behind the Candelabra Review

Steven Soderbergh's Liberace bio-pic Behind the Candelabra - debuting tomorrow on HBO with a simulcast at the TIFF Bell Lightbox for the Inside Out festival at 9pm - is a tasteful and fascinating look at a kitschy entertainment icon, with excellent leading performances from Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

Something in the Air Review

The latest film from Olivier Assayas, Something in the Air is an amorphous, but emotionally charged character piece about a budding teenage revolutionary that reasserts Assayas as one of the best filmmakers in the world today.