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We catch up with Warm Bodies leading zombie Nicholas Hoult to talk about making the walking dead sympathetic, working with director Jonathan Levine, creating chemistry with a co-stars when you can’t speak in a scene, and what it’s like to get the actual walking part of being a zombie just right.
This Week in DVD: 1/29/13
This week on DVD and Blu-Ray, the crew looks at Hotel Transylvania, The Imposter, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2, For a Good Time Call..., Coriolanus, Game Change, Life's Too Short, The Awakening, End of Watch, and Legend of a Warrior.
Movie 43 Review
Earlier today our head film critic had his faith in movies nearly destroyed by Hansel and Gretel:Witch Hunters, tonight our other main film writer suffers the same nervous breakdown inducing fate fate at the hands of the already infamous Movie 43.
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Review
Our head film critic disliked Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters so much it drove him to have a crisis of faith/near mental breakdown from how tone deaf, unfunny, and laboured the whole affair was.
Parker Review
Making an action film with Jason Statham playing author Donald Westlake's iconic badass Parker should have been easy, but slack pacing, and uncomfortable director, and a severely lacking script make this outing unworthy of its namesake.
Italy: Love It or Leave It Review
Instead of an intriguing portrait of two young men trying to feel nostalgic for a lost cultural identity, the heavily forced and amateurish road trip documentary Italy: Love It or Leave It gives us two bratty filmmakers that feel like less talented surrogates for Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock in the worst possible ways.
Tatsumi Review
Part biography, part short story compilation, Tatsumi animates the life and selected works of mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi in a film that will please fans and newcomers alike.
Krivina Review
With his first feature film, Krivina, Igor Drljaca crafts a lyrical, dreamy and purposefully contemplative search for self in an artfully made film bourne from a simple search for answers.
Knife Fight Review
With a plot oddly similar to a comedic version of The Ides of March from a couple of years ago, the political satire Knife Fight comes from a good pedigree, but it's still nothing that hasn't been seen before and better especially in the past few years.
Interview: Marlon Wayans
We sit down with actor and writer Marlon Wayans to talk about his latest parody film A Haunted House, crowd reactions to his films, critical reactions, when a genre is ripe for parody, and his work outside of the shadow of his most frequent collaborators.
Interview: Igor Drljaca
We talk to York University alum Igor Drljaca about his debut feature Krivina (opening at The Royal in Toronto this Friday), the film's largely Bosnian setting, making the jump from shorts to features, what it was like to mount his most ambitious project to date, and potentially making the move to work on larger canvases
Broken City Review
Marred by a pretty lacking script, Broken City isn't so much awful as it is wholly predictable and almost instantly forgettable.
On the Road Review
While not a bad film overall, the probably unadaptable On the Road captures an admirably realistic feeling sense of aimlessness and youthful hedonism, but it's hard to shake the feeling that something big is still missing
Mekong Hotel Review
Opaque and inscrutable by design, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's follow up to his most successful feature, the lengthy short film Mekong Hotel almost feels to dry to warrant a second viewing despite its waterlogged setting.
Beware of Mr. Baker Review
Beware of Mr. Baker is one of the sharpest rock music documentaries to come down the pike in quite some time, and we're not just saying that because we're afraid of the film's subject beating us senseless.