Interview: Robert Pilichowski
We talk to director Robert Pilichowski, director of the NXNE premiering documentary All Out War, about getting to the heart and soul of the individual B-Boys outside of their crews.
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The Great Chameleon Review
The Great Chameleon further proves that local theatres need to stop giving theatrical runs for any asshole with a chequebook who thinks they have a movie. Giving this shit even ten minutes of my time is fucking generous.
DVD Round-Up: 6/14/13
Our latest round-up of home video offerings takes a look at the new release of Disney's Oz: The Great and Powerful, and new Blu-Rays for classics Medium Cool, National Lampoon's Vacation, Safety Last!, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, and... Airheads.
Man of Steel Review
Although it might be still somewhat of an unsubtle disappointment, Man of Steel offers enough action and promise for the future, particularly from Henry Cavill in the lead and even from Zack Snyder in the director's seat. Still, someone needs to tell Christopher Nolan (and by extension actual hired writer David S. Goyer) to stop putting his very specific and far too serious spin on DC titles.
Interview: Alexis Denisof
We talk with actor Alexis Denisof about re-teaming with Joss Whedon for the low-key Shakespearean adaptation Much Ado About Nothing, getting back to his acting roots, and how the on set friendship of everyone involved informed the characters.
NXNE 2013: Film
With the film portion of this year's 19th annual NXNE festival kicking off this Thursday, we take a look at six of this years offerings: All Out War, Mistaken for Strangers, BB King - The Life of Reily, The Rolling Stones - Charlie is My Darling - Ireland 1965, Filmage - The Story of Descendants/ALL, and Global Groove Network.
TIFF in the Closet
This Saturday, the TIFF Bell Lightbox will have a special sing-along to R. Kelly's labyrinthine Trapped in the Closet saga (the first 22 parts, anyway). But what is it that makes this kitschy R&B phenomenon so popular?
This is the End Review
There’s no logical reason why Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut This is the End should work outside of containing sheer, overpowering amounts of talent in front of the camera. It becomes more than the mere trifle most would expect it to be on the surface and instead becomes the funniest comedy so far this summer and one of the seasons most pleasant, yet foul-mouthed surprises.
The Purge Review
The Purge attempts to unravel its twists and turns slowly, but things turn to predictable and familiar fast. You know when a film that barley runs 80 minutes feels far too long that opportunities were missed all over the place.
The Internship Review
Are you over the age of 45, blue collar, have no clue how a computer works, you’ve never had an internship in your life, you’ve never heard of Google as a corporation, think The Big Bang Theory is the height of comedy, and you find the leads hilarious? You’ll probably adore The Internship. If you disagree with all or most of those criteria, it will be positively poisonous to anything and everything you hold dear in life. That’s just the way it is.
The Kings of Summer Review
The Kings of Summer is a pleasant enough coming of age tale, but something is a bit off in how the adults are more interesting than the kids are.
This Week at The Bloor: 6/7/12
A trio of past festival entries open at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto this weekend. Here's a look back at the musically minded Peaches Does Herself and Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Leon Helm and the health conscious Free the Mind
Interview: Nick Robinson
We talk to Nick Robinson, star of this summer's coming of age comedy The Kings of Summer, about relating to being an angsty teenager, his own lack of survival skills, working with Nick Offerman and his exceptional beard, and what he was most surprised to see in the final cut of the film.
The East Review
The East is the kind of film that says a lot more with a whisper then it does with a scream, and while people may not be able to look past what the film’s ultimate message, in it’s quieter moments all of the emotional punches hit their marks.
Interview: Brit Marling & Ellen Page
We sit down with writer and actress Brit Marling and Canada's own Ellen Page to talk about their work on the new thriller The East, the importance of a strong sense of family, how much preparation went into to playing anarchists, the semantics behind dumpster diving, the best way to make a subversive narrative, and the real inspiration behind some of the ideas shared in the film.
