We take a look at the Toronto edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival (kicking off this Tuesday at the TIFF Bell Lightbox) and a trio of the films showing: Academy Award nominee No, Camp 14: Total Control Zone, and The Act of Killing.
Our Film and Performing Arts Editor takes a look at this year's Oscar race. And don't forget to check him out online as part of CBC Community's Oscar night live chat starting tomorrow night at 7pm!
Dark Skies isn’t a great movie or even a particularly memorable one, but as a mid-winter timewaster it fills an empty slot well.
We talk to film writer Adam Nayman (The Grid, Cinema Scope) about the latest installement of his public series of cinematic classes, In Nayman's Terms (kicking off this coming Monday at Toronto's Miles Nadal JCC), which focuses on the work of America's most well known tandem auteurs: Joel and Ethan Coen.
While not as action packed as fans of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would expect given his recent output, the character based drama Snitch is still an admirable change of pace.
Ever wonder who actually buzzed the tower and flipped off that enemy mig for Tom Cruise in Top Gun? It was this man: Naval Captain and current NASA pilot Scott Altman. We talked to Altman about working with Tom Cruise and Tony Scott in honour of the film's 25th anniversary Blu-Ray release.
Toronto director Kazik Radwanski's Tower is a distancing look at personal neuroses and crushed dreams told almost through the lens of a cinematic dissassociative disorder, and it's every bit as electrifying and quietly unsettling as it sounds.
We catch up with hot young producer Jason Blum - the man who helped bring the world Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister, and this week drops Dark Skies.
This week on DVD and Blu-Ray we take a look at current Best Picture front runner Argo, Leos Carax's Holy Motors, the meta-comedy Seven Psychopaths, the meta-horror films Sinister and Mimesis, RZA's kung-fu epic The Man with the Iron Fists, Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren in The Package, and the high rise Irish horror of Citadel.
Taking a look at the latest instalment of the TIFF Bell Lightbox's Packaged Goods series - showcasing the best in short form commercials and music videos - with a focus on animation this time out.
This week for the archival DVD and Blu-Ray column we dive into the 3-D Blu-Ray release of Tony Scott's Top Gun, Michael Mann's The Insider, the forgotten about horror flick Schizo, and head over to the TV side of things for The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour, the second season of the Being Human reboot, and The Best of WCW Monday Nitro, Volume 2.
It's aimed very squarely at only the youngest of moviegoers, but Escape from Planet Earth will do its target demographic proud.
This follow up to the cult hit found footage flick Grave Encounters can't properly balance scares and self-reflexive cleverness. It starts of clever, but not even remotely scary. It ends with some (not so scary) frights that are just the same old, same old.
In the lugubriously titled A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Roman Coppala creates a very nice period styled comedy that keeps his characters grounded within an offbeat and purposefully bizarre framework.
We take a look at seven of the films playing at this year's TIFF Next Wave festival: Fame High, 5-25-77, Bushido Sixteen, Earthbound, Otelo Burning, Ghost Graduation, and Family Weekend.
