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Palo Alto – TIFF Review
Gia Coppola faces a considerable challenge with her directorial debut Palo Alto. Not only in the challenge of the source material, but also by stepping into a legacy established by her...
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Cannibal – TIFF Review
CANNIBAL Cannibals in movies get lumped into two categories. There’s the maniacal Texas Chain Saw Massacre versions, and the refined and often charming Silence of the Lambs versions. It seems...
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FAT – TIFF Review
When Kevin Smith made his first film Clerks, he tapped into the zeitgeist, chronicling the story of two slackers. The reason it worked wasn’t because it was funny, which it was, nor was it because it...
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Beneath the Harvest Sky – TIFF Review
BENEATH THE HARVEST SKY Melodrama for the sake of melodrama. It’s an easy and deceiving pit to fall into, and no melodramas are easier to mine than the plight of the poor. Already you’ve got the...
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Oculus – TIFF Review
OCULUS It’s so important in horror films for us to care about the characters in peril, more so, I think, than any other genre. With so much unpleasantness around them, if they themselves are just as...
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Under the Skin – TIFF Review
UNDER THE SKIN Uninterested in conventional plot structure, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin is a fractured collection of beautiful sounds and images from this world, and beyond. It’s less a story as...
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The Stag – TIFF Review
THE STAG What do you say about comedies that are so gentle, they don’t register at all? Jon Butler’s The Stag has opportunities to be send up of modern masculine culture. He’s got the right set up for...
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Jodorowsky’s Dune – TIFF Review
JODOROWSKY’S DUNE Chilean born director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made some of the most extreme films in the history of the medium. From his onset he has never felt the need to cap his imagination and...
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The 15 Best Films of 2013
Finally, here are the Top 15 films from 2013 you must definitely see! 1. THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer There is no film like The Act of Killing and I doubt there will be another. It’s possibly...
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Five Failures of 2013
Instead of the list of the years worst films, (another year, another Adam Sandler film) I think it’s better to explain the five films that carried such prestige or importance and explain why they...
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