While a challenging film for average viewers to get involved with David Cronenberg's big screen adaptation of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis holds a lot to like for attentive viewers with great acting and dialogue, but very little of Cronenberg's own personality in favour of focusing on DeLillo's.
This week in DVD, the big time money maker, but already forgotten Safe House, the unforgettable bomb John Carter, a pair of films so cheesy they're fun, and... um... Act of Valor.
What follows is the first part of my in depth journey through the Alien universe, beginning with Aliens, then back to Alien, and ending off with Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. I do this in the hopes that maybe I can explain even just a little bit of the mysterious dark, fury that has left me thinking about LV-426 for the nearly two decades.
Following the kick-off to our coverage of the CFC's 18th annual Worldwide Short Film Festival on Friday, here's a look at a handful of programs from this year's gathering of some of the best short films from around the world that starts tomorrow night. Today, we take a look at several more of the high profile Official Selection Programs, indie comedy, music video, and science fiction showcases, and the highly anticipated all night horror marathon The Night Shift and the always star studded Celebrity Shorts.
Our look at the career of Sylvester Stallone goes back and forward, looking at Sly's attempts at universal likability with his stint as a guest host on Saturday Night Live and his misbegotten country music film Rhinestone.
, James Farrington, Phil Brown, and Jenna Hossack take a look at a bunch of programs in this year's 18th annual CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival. We take a look at comedy, drama, Christmas, love, families, kids films, surrealism, and many other disparate elements that come together to make this festival one of the city's most endearingly eclectic.
A solid, straight-up fairy tale epic, Snow White and The Huntsman is the rare example of big budget epic filmmaking coming from a place of genuine entertainment.
Dull, unfunny, unscary, and nowhere near as fun or campy as any of the films to bear the name of the famed man eating fish Piranha 3DD stinks on almost every conceivable level like pure desperation and boredom.
Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project) returns with the possession thriller Lovely Molly, a film that's fine enough until it starts feeling the need to explain every detail of what's going on.
We talked with co-creator of The Blair Witch Project, Eduardo Sanchez, about his latest film, the exorcism chiller Lovely Molly, as well as about the film that made him famous and the differences between making low budget productions then and now.
Feeling a bit like an unholy cross between The Royal Tenenbaums and Snatch, first time Canadian filmmaker Jonathan Sobol's A Beginner's Guide to Endings can pummel viewers with its style, and not all the jokes hit, but it establishes the director as one to watch in the future.
Equal parts ingenious, slow, and imperfect, director Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope takes a genial, fictional look at choosing a new pope without resorting to high satire.
While pretty far from perfect, the inspirational “based on a true story” feel good French drama The Intouchables gets a lot of mileage out of a pair of great leading performances that can allow viewers to overlook some of the screenplay’s more maudlin touches.
We talked to the director Jonathan Sobol about the Canadian indie A Beginner's Guide to Endings about the film's conception, it's stacked cast (including JK Simmons and Harvey Keitel), and his plans for the future.
Director Wes Anderson delivers one of his best felt films to date with the funny, sweet, and deeply personal feeling Moonrise Kingdom.
