Hedda Review: TIFF 2025
Tessa Thompson gives a career-best performance in Hedda , a stylish film that puts style over substance.
Imogen Poots
TIFF 2020: The Father Review
Florian Zeller's feature film debut is an emotional and intellectual thrill ride.
Castle in the Ground Review: The Forgotten Epidemic
A low-key turn by Hereditary's Alex Wolff anchors this sobering portrait of the opioid crisis.
Fantasia 2019: The Art of Self Defense Review
It seems harder and harder to find movies that can balance style and substance, fortunately Riley Stearns' new film The Art of Self Defense – starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots – does so perfectly.
Frank & Lola: Director Matthew Ross on Losing Michael Shannon to Man of Steel, Building Trust with Imogen Poots, and How to Get Food Right on Film
We spoke with Frank & Lola director Matthew Ross about the film's long and bumpy road to the big screen, building trust with his two leads, transplanting the film from New York to Las Vegas, and what he's been collecting recently.
Green Room Blu-ray Review
Jeremy Saulnier's scrappy follow up to Blue Ruin , Green Room is an excellent genre flick, but there's not much to boast about on the new Blu-ray disc save for one redeeming feature.
Knight of Cups Review: Malick’s Familiar Experiment Produces Watered Down Results
Some may blame Terrence Malick's sudden increased output for the artist repeating himself, but Knight of Cups feels like the director spent too much time playing the sandbox.
TIFF 2015: Green Room Review
Green Room TIFF 2015 review.
Home Entertainment Review: Filth
Filth (Jon S. Baird, 2014) – It’s possible that Irvine Welsh’s novel Filth might have been unfilmable, but that certainly didn’t stop writer and director Jon S. Baird from trying. It’s an admirable attempt to encapsulate a decent into abject madness and abasement at the hands of one of Welsh’s most memorably misanthropic creations, if […]
Home Entertainment Review: Need for Speed
Need for Speed (Scott Waugh, 2014) – There are few things more thrillingly cinematic than a car chase, which is why it’s odd that so many movies based around that twisted metal movie thrill tend to be so dull. Need for Speed is a perfect example. Here’s a movie directed by a former stunt man […]
Need for Speed Review
Need for Speed is both better than any racing video game adaptation really has any right to be and yet it’s still what most audience members who buy a ticket for it will be expecting.
Interview: Aaron Paul & Scott Waugh
Actor Aaron Paul and director Scott Waugh sit down with us to talk about their video game adaptation Need for Speed , and about the film’s old school feel, how Paul gets into character when so many cameras are on him, the most dangerous stunt they attempted together. They also bicker about who gets to keep the nicest car in the movie.
That Awkward Moment Review
Although the bromantic comedy That Awkward Moment takes its name from a popular internet catchphrase, one can’t fault the filmmakers for choosing an inappropriate title. It’s certainly awkward, and it does have its moments.
Home Entertainment Round-Up: 10/15/13
This week in home entertainment, we look back on the new Blu-Ray for The Little Mermaid and how the film pretty much saved Walt Disney Animation, as well as the Blu-Ray release of The Heat , and DVDs for Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love , Alex Gibney's documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks , and something called Detention of the Dead , which is exactly what it sounds like.
Greetings from Tim Buckley Review
Penn Badgley gives a great performance as a conflicted Jeff Buckley struggling to come to terms with his father Tim's legacy in the slice-of-life biopic Greetings from Tim Buckley , but the film is so threadbare and navel gazing that it's hard to care about anything that happens.
