As one might expect, the flashy UK remake of Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher ends up being a mostly pointless exercise, adding a tonne of shallow style but very little substance to the proceedings. Director Luis Prieto pushes the source material through that Guy Ritchie gangster movie filter, and in the process robs his remake of the gritty naturalism that made the rough around the edges original work.
One of the best environmental docs of the year and unfortunately timely in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Chasing Ice is more of a personal story of man interacting with nature that's refreshingly free of didactic lecturing on the subject of climate change. It's one thing to hear about how glaciers are melting. It's another thing to actually see it like you do here.
Despite moving the events of Pierre Choderlos De Lacois' timeless Dangerous Liasons to Shanghai, this sumptuous looking production is still only exactly what one would expect this adaptation of a literary classic to be.
We talk to Nisha Pahuja, director of the 2012 Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature Documentary The World Before Her about gaining access to two very different worlds for her look at becoming a woman in India: beauty pageants and Hindu fundamentalism.
Dork Shelf catches up with first time director Jeff Orlowski about his Hot Docs favourite (and suddenly very important) climate change documentary Chasing Ice and we talk a bit about the physical demands of filming on and around glaciers and his relationship with National Geographic photographer and subject, James Balog.
Often forgotten about among cinephiles, the TIFF Bell Lightbox looks at the works of influential German New Wave director Werner Schroeder in the retrospective Magnificent Obsession, running from November 8th through December 9th.
RZA's directorial debut The Man With the Iron Fists might only appeal to lovers of old school kung-fu, but in that same respect, it ain't nothin' to fuck with.
While not as original as one would hope and overlong, Wreck-It Ralph still holds a high amount of entertainment value for gamers both old and young.
Despite an excellent leading performance from Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis' Flight is an odd duck of a movie, lurching wildly between crowd pleasing Oscar bait and an intense and far better look at the nature of addiction.
Some books were just not meant to be made into movies, and despite the best efforts of director Deepa Mehta, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children happens to be one of those books.
How to Survive a Plague brings back the events of the early days of AIDS research activism ti the big screen showcasing how ignorance and fear can be toppled by the right people refusing to let an important issue disappear.
Despite forgetting to add in a certain degree of sincerity that 80s and 90s cheeseball replicas need to succeed as comedies, the ultra low budget Manborg from Winnipeg's Astron 6 has enough funny moments and interesting stop motion effects to spare.
We talk to award winning Canadian filmmaker Deepa Metha about her most ambitious project to date: a sprawling, epic adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.
He can fix it! We talk to the voice of Fix-It Felix from Wreck-It Ralph and 30 Rock stand-out Jack McBrayer about his memories of video games growing up, always playing a nice guy, why he's afraid of playing a villain, and a little bit about where the hit TV show he's on might end up at the end of its final season.
Keeping with today's Halloween theme while looking ahead to next month, we take a look at and talk to Twitch's Todd Brown about his upcoming Birth of a Villain series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, tracing the history iconic horror movie villains of the 70s and 80s.
