Felony Special Presentation Director: Matthew Saville A little known fact about actor Joel Edgerton is that he’s actually quite the accomplished screenwriter. His latest effort (following several shorts and the sadly under-seen in North America Aussie noir The Square) as a scribe and leading man comes in this admirably even keeled cop drama focusing on […]
While still technically an alright movie overall and somewhat subdued by its director's usual flashy standards, Baz Luhrmann's big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still proves that there's something completely unfilmable about the source material in spite of some pitch perfect casting and stylistic choices.
In the best film of her already great career, Kathryn Bigelow and a thoroughly excellent Jessica Chastain create the ultimate impartial treatise on modern warfare with Zero Dark Thirty.
Enter for a chance to win a pair of passes to see an advance screening of one of the most anticipated films of the year, Zero Dark Thirty in Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Halifax on Thursday, January 10th at 7:00pm courtesy of Dork Shelf and Alliance Films.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green is an odd duck of a film that’s trying so desperately to be inspirational that it turns out to be cheesy at best and downright creepy and off putting and worst.
We talked to self professed perpetual dork, writer-director Peter Hedges about his latest film The Odd Life of Timothy Green, why he's so drawn to films about the nature of families, and how his own experiences as a parent have shaped the film.
We sat down and talked with rising star Joel Edgerton about his starring role in The Odd Life of Timothy Green, what films inspired him growing up as a kid, and how he created a familial bond with his costars.
As a sports film, Warrior doesn’t offer any new twist on a tried and true template, but it could be held up as a perfect example of how to make an uplifting sports film. This story of two estranged brothers trying to make their way through a newly formed mixed martial arts tournament hits almost every beat the audience expects, but it does so with near flawless precision. This isn’t exactly the reinvention of the wheel, but it sure does give one of the smoothest rides of the year.
