TIFF 2019: The Laundromat Review
Director Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat – starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas – is a dizzying madcap whirl that will give audiences the rinse and the spin they need.
Jeffrey Wright
TIFF 2019: The Goldfinch Review
TIFF 2019: The Goldfinch Review
Venice 2019: The Laundromat Review
Tamara Khodova reviews Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat – starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas – from the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Does this star-studded dramedy live up to Soderbergh's previous work?
Spoiled Rotten: The Shaft Bonus Episode
That Shelf Alum, Noah Taylor, joins Daniel to spoil Shaft!
Why You Should Start Binge Watching Westworld
Has there ever been a series as bafflingly beautiful, yet maddeningly nonsensical, as Westworld? The new trailer for the highly anticipated third season just dropped.
Jimmi Simpson on the Westworld Season Finale, His Favourite Westerns, and His Dork Shelf
Westworld's Jimmi Simpson discusses the big season finale, his love of Westerns, what he’d do if he were in a real life robot cowboy theme park, and much more.
Westworld: Searching for Character at the Heart of the Maze
If HBO's Westworld wants its ambitious plot to matter it needs to give audiences better rounded characters.
Westworld Review: The Best of Two Genres
Westworld has all the action, adventure, and intrigue of the ideal Western film, but that's all a veneer for tourists, under which lies a rich maze of philosophy, science fiction, and genre criticism.
The Good Dinosaur Blu-ray Review
The Good Dinosaur comes out on Blu-ray this week with a great technical presentation and some insight on what happened with Pixar's first financial flop.
The Good Dinosaur Review
The Good Dinosaur isn't able to bottle that Pixar magic, but it's a nice looking film that will likely be a hit with the kids.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Review
With a director more accustomed to shooting good looking and well handled action sequences, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is just a slight notch better than its predecessor, but nearly every other positive and negative from the first film remains exactly the same.
Contest: See an Advance Screening of THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Across Canada!
Enter for a chance to win a pair of passes to the red carpet premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in Toronto on Tuesday, November 19th or to an advance screening in Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, or Vancouver on Wednesday, November 20th, courtesy of Dork Shelf and eOne Films.
A Single Shot Review
While a great showcase for the acting talents of star Sam Rockwell – an actor who needs more leading roles than just the character work he knocks out of the park every time – the backwoods thriller A Single Shot misinterprets “slow burn” as “illogically stalling.”
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.
