The great mandala that is Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal is only just beginning to reveal itself. We know slightly more than the characters about the overall design, and this new territory will be adding a different nightmarish colour to our palate.
Hannibal ’s greatest strength, the one that produces the most gut-wrenching moments, is the most viscerally sterile: Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham in a room trying to destroy each other while falling irretrievably deeper into a mad sort of love.
On the eve of a TIFF Bell Lightbox retrospective looking at the works of still up and coming Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn, our film writers look at their favourite films from the uncompromising filmmaker behind Drive , The Pusher trilogy, and Only God Forgives
Returning once again to the subject of pedophilia, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt features an incredible leading performance from Mads Mikkelsen and offers the audience no easy answers.
It's easy to see why A Royal Affair is up for a Best Foreign Film Academy Award. With three incredibly strong and well defined leads, this story not only engages us in a dark an relatively unknown chapter of a country’s history but into a complicatedly lush and vibrant love story.
With opening day of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival now upon us, That Shelf's coverage rolls on with looks at Stories We Tell , On the Road , The Hunt , Peddlers , Tower , Lore , 90 Minutes , and Blackbird .
