TFCA Announces 2014 Award Winners
Led by Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress winner Boyhood , the Toronto Film Critics Association has announced their award winners for the best of film in 2014.
Josh Brolin
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Review
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For fails to live up to its promises of being a fun, macho fantasy, instead delivering a bloated two-hour bore.
Guardians of the Galaxy Review
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy stands as proof that not every summer blockbuster has to choose between self-reflexive humour and stoic seriousness.
Labor Day Review
A major misstep for the usually reliable Jason Reitman, the flat out bizarre romantic drama Labor Day can never settle on a tone or feel remotely believable for a single second. It wastes a perfectly capable cast by giving them roles that could never been seen as functional human beings, and it’s so latently sexist and just all around uneasy that it fails at whatever it’s trying to attempt.
Oldboy (2013) Review
Bullshit.
TIFF 2013: Labor Day Review
Labor Day Special Presentation Director: Jason Reitman Since 2005’s Thank You for Smoking , Reitman has produced quirky, critical character studies, each slices of odd, complicated inhabitants in their near-highs and terrible lows. (And usually JK Simmons waves hello). In Labor Day , Reitman travels far outside of his comfort zone for a tense drama […]
Gangster Squad Review
It's not much more than pulpy, violent gangster entertainment, but Gangster Squad is a blending of old timey conventions with modern filmmaking techniques that makes for major studio B-movie goodness that should be praised rather than condemned.
Interview: Giovanni Ribisi
That Shelf sits down with Gangster Squad actor Giovanni Ribisi to talk about growing up in Los Angeles and starring in a period piece from before his time, transitioning to older roles after starting young, the controversy surrounding the film's shifted release date, and why he loved being immersed in the world of the 1940s.
Men in Black III Review
Men in Black III is better than Men in Black II in so much as being tooth gratingly annoying and thoroughly incomprehensible is better than outright incompetence.
Summer Movie Preview: The Merry Month of May
Now that The Avengers has whet the appetites of Summer moviegoers, let's take a look at the other big releases this month, including Men in Black III, Dark Shadows, Battleship, and The Dictator .
Jonah Hex Review
Alan Jones joins us once again for a guest review, this time for Jonah Hex. Alan is president of the University of Toronto Cinema Studies Students Union (CINSSU). This review and many others can be read on the official CINSSU blog . The American Western has fallen in stature considerably since its days as a […]
