John Hillcoat

Triple 9 Review

Is there more going for heist flick Triple 9 than just its all star ensemble cast?

Lawless Review

Lawless feels like a film compromised somewhere in the editing process with long passages awkwardly truncated and the director’s patented slow, thoughtful pacing replaced with a more action-centric aesthetic, but the film still works reasonably well as an entertaining gangster yarn filled with the performances you get as a prestigious director working with his pick of the top actors around.

The New Old: Sowing Season

This week, our archival DVD column looks at various stages of growing up with looks at Good Will Hunting, High Fidelity, and Adventures in Babysitting , and a look at the volatile nature of change in The Proposition .

TIFF Review: The Road

If you saw director John Hillcoat’s last film The Proposition , then you know that he is perhaps the only man suited to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road . The world as we know it has been utterly destroyed: Society no longer functions and every bit of infrastructure is gone. A father and son […]