film

Before Midnight Review

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While openly less eventful than the two preceding films in Richard Linklater's iconic romantic trilogy, Before Midnight might ultimately be the most thoughtful and emotionally rewarding of them all.

Interview: Kris Booth

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We talk to Canadian filmmaker and Halifax resident Kris Booth, one of the participants in the fan-supported CineCoup competition to get people to vote on a film to be granted a one million dollar budget and guaranteed theatrical distribution. We talk about his project Red Horizon, his own coup of landing legendary cinematographer Dean Cundey as his DP, and why he thinks CineCoup is vital to the future of Canadian cinema.

Now You See Me Review

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Now You See Me is a deliriously fun, albeit silly movie, but if you were thinking of seeing a movie about and all star cast of magicians pulling off heists from the director of The Transporter what did you think you were buying a ticket for?

Blancanieves Review

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Silent and in black and white, the Spanish made Blancanieves is a gorgeous looking and irreverent take on the Snow White fable set in the 1920s and against the backdrop of bullfighting.

Lore & Hava Nagila: The Movie Reviews

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Because we are running out of space on the main page, we're letting the review for two of our recent festival favourites bunk up together on their Toronto debuts. The family drama Lore from TIFF 2012 deals with one young girl protecting her siblings in light of her parents sins. Hava Nagila: The Movie is a lighthearted and fun doc from this year's Toronto Jewish Film Festival about the history of the only song needed to get any Jewish party in full swing.

Old Stock Review

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The Canadian comedy Old Stock might tip it's hat a bit heavily to American independent cinema of the past decade, but it's a charming breezy tale with sharp writing and great performances.

Erased Review

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The entirety of the lacklustre thriller Erased can be summed up in one elongated yawning sound effect.

The Ghosts in Our Machine Review

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Documenting a documentarian is a tricky proposition, but when said craftsman is also an impassioned activist and exceedingly talented artist it becomes even tougher to do justice by the subject. The work done by director Liz Marshall to showcase and contextualize the work done by her friend and fellow photographer Jo-Anne McArthur in her film The Ghosts in Our Machine is nothing short of triumphant.

American Mary Review

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.