review

21 and Over Review

The lazy, lacklustre comedy 21 and Over shows that we haven't come very far at all since the days of Animal House, but it still isn't the worst of its frat boy kind.

Charlie Zone Review

It's not perfect, but the hard nosed Haligonian thriller Charlie Zone is the perfect antidote for anyone who thinks Canadian cinema has grown too soft and safe.

The Bitter Buddha Review

The Bitter Buddha takes a fascinating backstage look at one of the most fascinating, lesser known, and most widely admired comedians working today, Eddie Pepitone.

California Solo Review

Despite a great leading performance from Robert Carlyle, California Solo is vapid to the point of being almost completely uninteresting.

Jack the Giant Slayer Review

There assuredly a fair bit of fun to be had while watching Bryan Singer’s classic-yet-cracked fairytale adaptation Jack the Giant Slayer, but it’s the kind of fun that needs to be had with the brain’s switch firmly placed in the off position.

Stoker Review

If Hitchcock was still alive he very well could have made Stoker, but with corpse reanimation still just a beautiful dream, Chan-wook Park fills the portly silhouette nicely. That’s high praise indeed and thankfully both the man and the film deserve it.

The Gatekeepers Review

Of the seemingly countless documentaries to emerge on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Dror Moreh’s The Gatekeepers instantly emerges as one of the best. It's guaranteed to get everyone on all sides of the debate riled up and that’s as it should be.

Comforting Skin Review

The unsettling, relentlessly bleak, and erotically charged psychological thriller and character study Comforting Skin won't please everybody, but it's a largely intriguing genre exercise from a first time Canadian filmmaker.

Lost Rivers Review

Municipal affairs and ecology junkies should get a massive kick out of the literally underground documentary Lost Rivers, an exploration of the rushing waterways that run beneath the cars and feet on city streets and the sometimes necessary need to let these tributaries breathe.

Interview: Michael Melski

We talk to Haligonian filmmaker Michael Melski about his gritty new thriller Charlie Zone, depicting the darker side of the city he loves, researching underground fighting circuits, and the visceral reaction some viewers have already had to his film.

Dark Skies Review

Dark Skies isn’t a great movie or even a particularly memorable one, but as a mid-winter timewaster it fills an empty slot well.

Snitch Review

While not as action packed as fans of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would expect given his recent output, the character based drama Snitch is still an admirable change of pace.

Tower Review

Toronto director Kazik Radwanski's Tower is a distancing look at personal neuroses and crushed dreams told almost through the lens of a cinematic dissassociative disorder, and it's every bit as electrifying and quietly unsettling as it sounds.

Grave Encounters 2 Review

This follow up to the cult hit found footage flick Grave Encounters can't properly balance scares and self-reflexive cleverness. It starts of clever, but not even remotely scary. It ends with some (not so scary) frights that are just the same old, same old.