A Good Day to Die Hard Review
What the hell have they done to John McClane?!?
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Meet the TIFF
Next Wave
We asked four of the exceptional teens on the TIFF Next Wave selection committee to share their thoughts on this weekend's upcoming teen movie festival, what they have learned, and their picks for what you shouldn't miss this weekend.
Beautiful Creatures Review
Beautiful Creatures positions itself as the next potential post-Harry Pottery literary franchise, but while it's entertaining enough, it never quite convinces us that it necessarily needs or deserves a follow-up.
This Week in DVD: 2/12/13
Today we go back to the video store for looks at Skyfall, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Sessions, and Robot & Frank.
Interview: Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis. Talking about A Good Day to Die Hard.
Interview: Roman Coppola
We talk to A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III writer and director and current Academy Award nominee Roman Coppola about creating his latest trippy, mind bending comedy, working with Liam Hayes on the film's groovy soundtrack, subliminal messages in advertising, working with Charlie Sheen and Bill Murray, and why he likes coming back to the same kinds of characters.
Interview: Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen
We talk to the director and co-writer (and Kitchner, Ontario natives) Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen from the animated adventure Escape from Planet Earth about their nearly life long collaborative process, working with Breandan Fraser and Rob Corddry, using 3-D effectively, and how to give life to a wacky waving arm flailing inflatable tube man.
Interview: Patrick Read Johnson
Dork Shelf talks to Patrick Read Johnson about his long in the works autobiographical film 5-25-77 and it's long road to the big screen despite being a small film about how he got started as a filmmaker growing up in small town Illinois. Johnson opens up about growing disillusioned with the studio system (working with John Hughes on Baby's Day Out, turning down the chance to do Home Alone, and the troubled post production on Angus), the good along the way, and bringing his work-in-progress film to the TIFF Next Wave Festival this weekend.
Interview: Jeff Cohen
Dork Shelf sits down with media critic and analyst Jeff Cohen about the upcoming documentary Shadows of Liberty, his work at CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News as an outsider that was critical of the corporate media (the latter of all being the most oddly freeing), his current work on exposing corporate media bias, and how to better create a full spectrum for a political dialogue.
Tchoupitoulas Review
Pitched somewhere between a documentary and a fever dream, Bill and Turner Ross’ Tchoupitoulas is one of those rare cinematic experiences: a true original. Pushing the boundaries of what qualifies as a documentary while still staying true to the purest form of fly-on-the-wall cinema verite, the film is a wholly unique experience. At once an abstract art piece and childish flight of whimsy, it’s a movie that begs to be soaked up and adored by any film lover.
All in Good Time Review
Working from material far too quaint to fly in the post-Sexual Revolution world, All in Good Time is an almost painfully slight movie, but it is at least fun before vanishing almost instantly from memory.
Identity Thief Review
Identity Thief is a movie so desperate for ideas to pad out it’s running time that there’s actually a scene involving snakes slithering into pants that I suppose the audience is supposed to pretend they haven’t seen a bazillion and one times before. Put simply the movie just doesn’t work, but what’s most heartbreaking about the whole endeavor is the fact that there’s no reason why a movie about identity theft mixing the talents of Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman couldn’t work.
Side Effects Review
If the riveting old school styled thriller Side Effects truly manages to be the last film from acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh, he picked a hell of a film to go out on. It might not be the most ostentatious film in the director’s canon, but there haven’t been many thrillers this well constructed and efficient since the world lost Alfred Hitchcock.
Only the Young Review
As raw and real as being a teenager could possibly without resorting to forced theatrics or pigeonholing its characters, the documentary Only the Young is one of the best 2012 documentaries you didn't get to see last year. You should probably rectify this when it screens three times at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto this coming week.
Lunarcy! Review
In his first documentary and follow up to the criminally underrated black comedy You Might as Well Live, Canadian director Simon Ennis takes a touching, hilarious, and altogether excellent look at people obsessed with the moon in Lunarcy!.
