Drug War, the latest film from prolific master filmmaker Johnnie To, is exactly the kind of movie Martin Scorsese dreams of making all the time. A crime drama that’s tense, understated, and alternating between action and high drama without feeling forced, this lean exercise dazzles just by being simple.
It's not a great comedy, nor an awful one, but We're the Millers does feel like a throwback to some of the more innocuous Hard-R rated comedies of the 1980s in some pretty decent ways.
Despite a noticeably lower budget, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is a worthy and entertaining bit of family pleasing fluff that's just as good as the franchise's first entry was.
While not as fresh as his previous big screen stand-up outing, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain should appeal nicely to the comic's fans and those who wish this particular style of concert film would make a comeback.
We take a look at the upcoming retrospective of the small, but vital filmography of Leos Carax at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Modern Love: The Films of Leos Carax.
This week at the video store we check out new Blu-Rays for recent releases Trance, To the Wonder, Oblivion, and Olympus Has Fallen, and two new Criterion releases for The Devil's Backbone and Lord of the Flies.
Not the trainwreck many feared it would be, but still far from a misunderstood classic, The Canyons starts off pretty great (including, yes, a good performance from Lindsay Lohan) before devolving sadly into incoherence.
While not terrible and admirably not picking a side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the drama-mystery The Attack sadly comes off as inert when it should be brimming with emotion.
This week at The Bloor: A downright terrifying look at online privacy issues in Terms and Conditions May Apply and a heart wrenching look at the often derided and persecuted Roma people in A People Uncounted.
While it certainly won’t go down as one of the most memorable movies of the year, 2 Guns does have an undeniable amount of charisma and charm that make it one of the more pleasant summertime surprises.
Berberian Sound Studio is certainly one of the strangest movies that you’re see all year and also one of the most perversely fascinating. A surreal, horrific, thriller just as insane as its main character.
Thanks to an excellent script and a knock-out leading performance from Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine is handily Woody Allen's best film since the early 1990s. Instead of being fun, playful, or genre based, it's emotional, real, and keenly perceptive.
Check out some of the cast of lucky leading men and women to star in the upcoming adaptation of the beloved young adult novel The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones There will likely be a test on this in the near future.
A movie like The Smurfs 2 exists for only four reasons (in order of importance):
1. Sell merchandise
2. Profit
3. Steady employment for all involved.
4. Be a bland enough babysitter so that when the film arrives on DVD parents will buy it in hopes of plunking their kid down in front of it for 90 minutes of peace and quiet.
Despite what should be a novel gender switcheroo designed to look at teenage sexuality from a girl's perspective, The To Do List is still just an awkwardly assembled, bodily fluid loving gross out comedy with almost no distinction from its male counterparts.
