Is Southpaw More Rocky or Raging Bull?
Jake Gyllenhaal goes the distance as a boxer named "Hope" in Southpaw, but can the rest of the film to toe-to-toe with the champs?
Rachel McAdams
True Detective Episode 2.5 Recap
Ray Velcoro is set on a heroic path in the face of overwhelming darkness in "Other Lives."
CONTEST: See SOUTHPAW in Select Canadian Cities
Dork Shelf is giving our readers the chance to attend advanced screenings of Southpaw on July 20 in Calgary, Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg, Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, and Edmonton!
True Detective Episode 2.4 Recap
We live in a chaotic world in which bad things happen for absolutely no coherent reason. The fourth hour of True Detective season two, “Down Will Come,” is remarkable in illustrating this concept.
True Detective Episode 2.3 Recap
"Maybe Tomorrow" is all about the many masks we wear — and the violence of removing them.
CONTEST: Attend the Canadian Premiere of SOUTHPAW!
Dork Shelf is giving our readers the chance to attend the Canadian Premiere of Southpaw on July 9 in Toronto! Stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams will be in attendance!
True Detective Episode 2.2 Recap
Hard boiled pulp collides with abject horror and True Detective hits its stride in the shocking "Night Finds You".
True Detective Episode 2.1 Recap
In True Detective's difficult second season you'll have to be your own Rustin Cohle.
Aloha Review
Cameron Crowe's ensemble rom com Aloha has all the ingredients that should make audiences love it, but the script feels sloppy, with a beginning that's too messy and an ending that's too clean.
Wes Craven: The Master of Modern Horror
In honour of a mini-retrospective in his honour starting this week at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, we look at the career of Wes Craven, the best horror director of his time.
A Most Wanted Man Review
Philip Seymour Hoffman leaves behind one final exceptional leading performance in Anton Corbijn’s smart, stylish, and thrilling John le Carré adaptation, A Most Wanted Man.
About Time Review
A sweet natured and well done look at love and family that would drive a cynic insane, About Time from writer and director Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually) works far better than one might expect.
Passion Review
Watching Passion, the latest film from noted auteur and generally inconsistent filmmaker Brian De Palma, feels a lot like getting caught watching low-grade 1980s softcore Cinemax porn by a fatherly figure that lets loose a giant fart when he walks into the room. It’s embarrassing and morbidly funny to see happen, but that doesn’t make it a pleasant experience.
Blu-Ray Round-Up: 8/5/13
This week at the video store we check out new Blu-Rays for recent releases Trance, To the Wonder, Oblivion, and Olympus Has Fallen, and two new Criterion releases for The Devil's Backbone and Lord of the Flies.
To the Wonder Review
It's as hard to clearly decipher as any other Terrence Malick film since Badlands, but when dealing with a subject as irrational as love like he does in To the Wonder it's fitting and beautiful in equal amounts.
