Despicable Me 2 Review
Although a bit heavier on set pieces and wacky minion hijinks and lighter on the familial drama and heart, Despicable Me 2 is a fleet and funny follow up to the animated smash hit.
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Interview: James Badge Dale
Dork Shelf catches up with character actor James Badge Dale, who can be caught in The Lone Ranger, World War Z, and Iron Man 3, about his latest Gore Verbinski directed, Johnny Depp starring effort, the feel and scale of dressing up for a period western, Lone Ranger's incredible stunt work, never getting recognized in public thanks to constantly changing facial hair, what it’s like to work with so little down time, his dorky love for a certain game involving multi-sided dies, and if there are any childhood fantasies he has left to fulfil.
Interview: Jim Rash & Nat Faxon
We talk to the Oscar winning writing team behind The Descendants - Nat Faxon andCommunity actor Jim Rash - about their directorial debut, The Way, Way Back, the deeply personal journey to get it made, what it takes to craft a believable coming of age story, and looking back on the real life inspirations, themes, and moments that made the film what it is.
Blu-Ray Round Up: 7/1/13
This week, we look at Blu-Rays of horror classics Lifeforce and Phantasm II, one of Steven Spielberg's most underrated films, Empire of the Sun, the metal and cardboard documentary Skull World, and the bizarre worlds of Stoker and Spring Breakers.
This Week at The Bloor: 6/28/13
This week at the Bloor Hot Docs cinema we take at the hard to watch, but rewarding No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, the informative but bone dry architectural documentary Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation, and briefly note some cool events and special guests for this coming week.
The Heat Review
The Heat is a decently entertaining, if entirely formulaic, genre comedy that had somewhat astoundingly never been made to this point in this decent of a fashion..
Unfinished Song Review
It's pat and cheesy crowd-pleasing stuff, but thanks to a spectacular cast anchored by one of Terence Stamp's best performances, Unfinished Song earns its tearjerker status.
My Brother The Devil Review
The brotherly UK gangster drama My Brother The Devil brims with vitality and realism in one of the best debut features of the year.
Storm Surfers 3D Review
The 3D wonders of Storm Surfers are stunning, but there's a bit too much padding to really warrant a feature length documentary about open water boarders.
The Secret Disco Revolution Review
Intermittently insightful, thoughtful and humorous, but mostly slapdash and unfocused, The Secret Disco Revolution squanders a genuinely good thesis on a mishmash of talking heads a pointless, cutesy recreations that make disco look like a heist.
White House Down Review
White House Down is both vastly better than this year's other President-in-peril flick and about as goofy and endearingly silly as one would expect from director Roland Emmerich, delivering his best all around work since Independence Day. You know, that other movie that destroyed the White House.
The Worlds of Jacques Demy
We look at the career of famed French auteur Jacques Demy on the eve of a retrospective of his works Bitter/Sweet kicks off at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
How to Make Money Selling Drugs Review
Director Matthew Cooke’s documentary-slash-mock infomercial-slash-fake video game tip guide How to Make Money Selling Drugs is one of the most off beat, irreverent, and well researched takes on a serious political, economic, and social issue to come around in quite some time.
Interview: Paul Andrew Williams
We talk to Unfinished Song director Paul Andrew Williams about making the jump from hardcore British thrillers to crowd pleasers about old people singing, working with Terence Stamp, and finding just the right music for the right occasion (which sometimes happens to be Motorhead).
Interview: Jamie Kastner
We talk to the documentarian behind The Secret Disco Revolution, Jamie Kastner, about the evolution of disco, why “Good Times” might be a secretly ironic protest anthem, the occasionally brusque nature of The Village People, and the challenges faced in crafting an alternate take on an established history.
