Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Review
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a film full of joy, laughs, and perhaps surprisingly, some tears. And it may just be the best entry in the series yet.
Jim Broadbent
Hugh Laurie, Lucy Boynton and Will Poulter on Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
Hugh Laurie, Lucy Boynton & Will Poulter talk on the genius of Agatha Christie and the experience of working with two great, “clanking” Oscar winners on Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Mike Leigh
Exploring the films of the great Mike Leigh in The Criterion Channel's director spotlight.
Movies vs. Matrimony: Season 2 Round 5
Pauline wins Round 5 of Movies vs. Matrimony giving her a 4 win run! Will Daniel ever catch up?
A Look at the Oscar Nominees for Best Animated & Live Action Short
We take a look at all the nominees for Best Live Action and Best Animated Shorts at the Oscars, which you can catch this week at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
TIFF’s Little Shorts with Big Stars
TIFF kicks off their inaugural Short Cuts short film series with some major star power.
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 it’s not […]
Filth Review
Despite some good moments and an exceptional high wire performance from James McAvoy in the lead, the Irvine Welsh adaptation Filth is too scattershot to succeed.
Le Week-End Review
The British domestic drama Le Week-End delivers a bitter, and sometimes uncomfortably naturalistic look at an inexplicably enduring marriage on the rocks. Yet it’s the bitterness contained within the film’s two leading performances and director Roger Michell’s love of small, quiet moments over grandstanding arguments that make for great adult oriented entertainment.
Closed Circuit Review
Short on enthusiasm and originality, the legal thriller Closed Circuit wastes a talented cast, writer, and director on something that's been done to death. The film isn't merely ill conceived. It feels like it was cloned in a lab.
Cloud Atlas Review
It's admirable that a film as ambitious as Cloud Atlas can get made at all, but sadly, ambition is all this messy adaptation really has going in its favour.
The Iron Lady Review
Sometimes a movie that deserves a spot on a critic’s ten worst films list ends up being excluded because of a technicality. The beetle-headed Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady should almost dead to rights be quite high up on the list of 2011's cinematic atrocities, but thanks to limited Oscar qualifying runs in New York and Los Angeles at the end of the year I felt it wrong to talk about the film in too much depth before its proper wide release. It wasn’t embargoed at all, but I felt it was still too early. That time for charity is over. This movie’s an outright trainwreck with a central performance that isn’t half as good as the work that Meryl Streep has shown in the past.
