TIFF 2020: Falling Review
Viggo Mortensen elegantly tackles the complicated dynamics of a father-son relationship in his directorial debut.
Viggo Mortensen
So That Happened: Let’s Discuss Green Book’s Best Picture Win
Let's talk about why Green Book's road to Oscar glory received so much backlash.
TIFF 2018: Green Book Review
Green Book TIFF 2018 Review.
Captain Fantastic: Viggo Mortensen and Matt Ross Interview
We caught up with Viggo Mortensen and actor-turned director Matt Ross at Cannes to talk about their new film Captain Fantastic.
The Two Faces of January Review
The directorial debut of screenwriter Hossein Amini, The Two Faces of January, is a well acted and looking thriller that never quite brings out the most in its source text.
Gabrielle, Enemy, Orphan Black, & Call Me Fitz Big Winners at 2014 Canadian Screen Awards
Canadian films Gabrielle and Enemy took home major film awards at last night's Canadian Screen Awards, while Call Me Fitz and Orphan Black ruled the television side of the evening's festivities.
On the Road Review
While not a bad film overall, the probably unadaptable On the Road captures an admirably realistic feeling sense of aimlessness and youthful hedonism, but it's hard to shake the feeling that something big is still missing
The New Old: America’s Sweethearts
While sick, one of our film critics went through a bunch of re-releases from the 80s and 90s from the 20th Century Fox archives (now being distributed by Anchor Bay). Without rhyme or reason he watched Ghost in the Machine, Six Pack, Hear No Evil, Jack the Bear, The Pirate Movie, Quicksilver Highways, Tough Enough, a made for TV remake of Vanishing Point, and former NFL great Howie Long's first starring role in Firestorm. We don't fully know why he did it , either, but some of them were good!
This Week in DVD: 3/25/12
Your course schedule for This Week in DVD: Psychology (A Dangerous Method), philosophy (Confuscius), physical education (Monster Brawl), American Studies (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), film studies (Corman's World), and detention (Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked).
32nd Annual Genie Award Nominees Announced
The nominees for this year’s Canoscars, better and more formally know as the Genie Awards (now entering its 32nd year of existence), have been announced, and while there aren’t necessarily many surprises in what’s included there’s always room to complain about it.
TIFF Review: The Road
If you saw director John Hillcoat’s last film The Proposition, then you know that he is perhaps the only man suited to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. The world as we know it has been utterly destroyed: Society no longer functions and every bit of infrastructure is gone. A father and son struggle to […]
The Road Trailer
The big screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy‘s post-apocalyptic novel The Road finally has a trailer. Director John Hillcoat, who made the excellent Aussie Western The Proposition, has been hard at work on The Road for nearly two years and his vision looks to be very faithful to the McCarthy’s novel. Initially slated for release last […]
