Berlin International Film Festival Announces 2023 Line-up
Line-up revealed for the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival includes Sean Penn's Superpower and Matt Johnson's BlackBerry.
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Licorice Pizza Review: Paul Thomas Anderson in Hangout, Chill Mode
Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza—a coming-of-age tale set in early 1970s California—finds the auteur in decidedly chill, laid-back mode.
Flag Day Review: The Penn Is Mighty
Dylan Penn upstages her two-time Oscar winning father, Sean, in his latest effort.
The Gunman Review
The Gunman stars Sean Penn as a sniper in a film that feels past its prime. Despite a stellar supporting cast including Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, the only thing on mark is the aim of the protagonist.
CONTEST: See THE GUNMAN in select cities across Canada
Win tickets to an advanced screening of The Gunman in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Victoria, Calgary, Halifax, Winnipeg and Edmonton.
CONTEST: Win a Copy of THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY on Blu-Ray!
Enter for a chance to win a copy of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on Blu-Ray, courtesy of Dork Shelf and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment!
TBFF 2014: Haiti Untold Review
Haiti Untold A well meaning and well intentioned documentary doesn’t always make for the greatest movie, as evidenced by Dan Shannon and Isabelle Depelteau’s surprisingly predominantly white-centric look at the rebuilding effort in Haiti following the devastating 2010 earthquake. Getting in on the ground with the organizations and volunteers who are funding and actively working […]
Interview: Aaron Eckhart
We catch up with I, Frankenstein leading man Aaron Eckhart to talk about his recent shift towards higher profile films after starting off in independent movies, constructing the look of a modern monster, the physical preparation for the role, and the surprising amount of deep emotional research he did that took just as heavy a toll.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Review
Although it doesn't work 100% of the time, Ben Stiller's take on James Thurber's famous short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty shows the filmmaker and actor maturing as an artist full of wonderful vision and boundless ambition that make it a joy to watch.
This Week in DVD: 3/12/13
This week brings out some heavy hitters at the video store including Life of Pi, The Master, Hitchcock, Smashed, Playing for Keeps, This Must be the Place, and A Late Quartet.
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.
Revisiting the High Nineties: The Indian Runner
Welcome to the first installment of what is sure to become the biggest thing on the ‘net since it stopped making those NIN-inspired up dial up noises. This will be an ongoing series of articles in which I recommend a film from the decade that gave me the love of the medium. The nineties were […]
