Tu Dors Nicole Review
Tu Dors Nicole looks lovely, but means very little.
Marc Andre Grondin
TIFF 2014: Tu Dors Nicole Review
Tu Dors Nicole Contemporary World Cinema Believe it or not, sometimes something as simple as the ennui of a hot lazy summer in the suburban rural landscape can be a touch too understated to genuinely work. Tu Dors Nicole is a stylishly interesting, but unarratively dull affair that leaves too much unsaid with too characters […]
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear Review
Although the ending feels suspiciously forced, Quebecois auteur Denis Cote's Vic + Flo Saw a Bear boasts rich characters, great humor, well done suspense, excellent performances, and a hyper-realistic sense of emotion and setting
This Week in DVD: 5/29/12
What We Talk About When We Need to Talk About We Need to Talk About Kevin , Goon , and the second season of Rookie Blue .
Goon Review
Calling Goon this generation's Slap Shot would be an understatement. Aside from the obvious surface comparisons to the George Roy Hill/Paul Newman classic about a minor league hockey team going nowhere, director Michael Dowse ( Fubar ) and co-writer/co-star Jay Baruchel have created a film that outdoes what many hail as the greatest hockey comedy ever made.
Interview: Marc-Andre Grondin
The charming and candid Marc-André Grondin talked to That Shelf about the upcoming hockey comedy Goon and what it’s like to play someone so irredeemable as his character, how to dress like a douche for the camera, and how challenging it can be to make a French Canadian character funny without turning it into a stereotype.
