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International Women's Day / Oscar Mash-up
Submitted by Incidental Pieces on 03.10.10 at 7:51am.
Last night, for the first time in the history of the Academy Awards, the Oscar for Best Director was handed to a woman. Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for her outstanding work on The Hurt Locker.
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Alice In Wonderland: More Disney than Burton.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 03.5.10 at 2:47pm.
Tim Burton fans should be properly forewarned that his major studio take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland is more Disney than Burton.
With a truly horrifying girl-power script by Linda Woolverton -- who penned Beauty And the Beast and The Lion King for the Mouse Factory -- this particul...
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The Crazies: A Vibrant Zombie Variant With a Tart Sting
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 02.26.10 at 4:30pm.
Sahara director Breck Eisner has tackled a modern-day remake of one of horrormeister George Romero’s most neglected films, The Crazies.
Built around a star-making performance by Deadwood actor Timothy Olyphant -- who was so effective in the terrific Canadian heist flick High Life -- The Crazie...
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Shutter Island: Visual Poetry in a Twisting Plot
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 02.19.10 at 12:36pm.
Paramount has fiddled with the release date for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island for almost a season and a half, putting off this potentially difficult film’s launch for at least six months.
Now it’s finally here and there’s no question it is essential cinema for anyone who considers film to b...
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Crazy Heart: Blazingly Great
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 02.8.10 at 8:15am.
Scott Cooper’s debut feature Crazy Heart has build up a fine surge of hype mostly due from the extraordinary performance of Jeff Bridges as a broken-down Texas-based country writer and performer named Bad Blake.
The film is surprisingly straightforward and bittersweet. While the songs reflect ...
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Oscar Pool 2010: Internet Edition
Submitted by The Dartmouth Soundsystem on 02.5.10 at 6:38am.
On Twitter the other day, I asked if folks would be interested in doing an Oscar pool, and got a pretty good response. After mulling about for the past few days, I've come up with the following terms for our little wager:
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Broken Embraces: Good But Not Great
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 01.31.10 at 7:58am.
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s latest feature film, Broken Embraces, is regularly referred to as a letdown after his brilliant and vastly entertaining 2004 entry Volver.
Sure, it has an overly dense plot that again returns to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo, for its inspirati...
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A Single Man Is Utterly Ravishing
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 01.22.10 at 8:18am.
Fashion designer Tom Ford’s first feature film, A Single Man, is just about as ravishing a movie that’s ever hit the big screen.
Adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s landmark 1964 novel of the same name set during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film tells the story of an English professor at a...
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The Book Of Eli: post-apocalypse-du-jour with a plot.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 01.15.10 at 12:41pm.
The Hughes Brothers (From Hell, Menace II Society, Dead Presidents) have entered the post-apocalypse-du-jour sweepstakes with the Denzel Washington vehicle, The Book Of Eli.
Seemingly using some of the same locations and sets as the recent film version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, The Book O...
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Daybreakers: Spawn of vampire sequels.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 01.8.10 at 12:53pm.
The Aussie Spierig Brothers have delivered a surprisingly solid blast of imaginative entertainment in their just-opened horror flick Daybreakers.
While it’s a bit wobbly at times, like an overstuffed triple decker-sandwich -- Daybreakers is, after all, a Vampire/Zombie/Sci-Fi Apocalypse flick ...
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Up In the Air, Down in the Gutter
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 12.26.09 at 3:01pm.
Cynically calculated and yet virtually unwatchable, Up In the Air is one of those movies whose reputation gets inflated on the hothouse film festival circuit.
As writer/director Jason Reitman’s follow-up to the quirky hit Juno, it reinforces the notion that the son of legendary Canadian produc...
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Avatar: A Cinematic Trip
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 12.20.09 at 10:07am.
Sensory overload sci-fi epic. Landmark nerdland technical breakthrough. Masterful video-game-movie hybrid. Exhausting eco-fable wrought large. Rip-snorting revisionist actioner. James Cameron’s Avatar is all of these things, and more.
Created with a new Fusion 3-d camera system, the excess of ...
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Me And Orson Welles: The Legend Still Dazzles
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 12.12.09 at 1:55pm.
A must-see for anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of the performing arts, Me And Orson Welles might just pull in a few more members of the greater movie-going public due to teen heart-throb Zac Efron’s involvement.
Considering the elf-like Efron mostly has to gaze admiringly at the amazin...
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The Road: A masterpiece of cinematic mood in search of a story
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 12.3.09 at 7:23pm.
John Hillcoat’s long-awaited followup to his international breakthrough The Proposition is only a mild letdown. The Road -- adapted from Cormac MacCarthy’s acclaimed novel -- is full of haunting post apocalyptic landscapes and practically no plot.
The result is a masterpiece of cinematic mood ...
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Precious: Astonishing use of a forceful cinematic palette.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.28.09 at 2:41pm.
Calling Precious a ‘brave’ movie is selling it short. The word that more aptly describes it is ‘ferocious’.
You could throw around other words too, like ‘groundbreaking’, ‘innovative’ and ‘original’. Whatever the case, Precious is one terrific flick.
Everything you’ve heard about it is tru...
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It Might Get Loud: It Doesn't
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.23.09 at 5:39pm.
The new electric guitarist feature documentary It Might Get Loud is getting a very strange pre-DVD release: a couple of latenight weekends only before a December 22nd street date. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Fest.
It’s a strategy that would seem to encourage punters to wait for...
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The Box: Press the button, or not.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.17.09 at 7:38am.
Richard Kelly has returned to wide release with his third film, a supernatural thriller called The Box, adapted from the classic Sci-Fi author Richard (I Am Legend) Matheson’s story ‘Button, Button’.
Kelly, whose debut 2001 outing Donnie Darko has become the definitive film about youth culture...
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An Education: An Affair Turns The Corner
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.7.09 at 11:11am.
An Education is one of those must-see films that has gotten a tad inflated from expectations and hype that come with dazzling the denizens of the festival circuit.
A product of the wonderful British novelist Nick Hornby - who wrote the script, but not the story, while his wife produced.
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Paranormal Activity: One supremely scary film.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.31.09 at 5:56pm.
Paranormal Activity is one supremely scary film. Reportedly made for ten grand by writer/director Oren Peli, the brilliant bargain basement supernatural nail-biter has already endured some really dumb comparisons to shaky-camster thrillers such as The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield.
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Amelia: A Crash Landing
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.24.09 at 9:36am.
While the real Amelia Earhart disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937, a big screen counterpart is crash-landing in cinemas this weekend.
Mira Nair directed Hillary Swank as the star of this bio-pic, filmed partly in Nova Scotia, but the talented but erratic director is completely lost in ha...
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Where The Wild Things Are: A film that should dazzle audiences of all ages.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.17.09 at 2:07pm.
The long-awaited bigscreen version of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book Where The Wild Things Are has finally arrived in theatres after years of development starts and stops, and even more trouble from the production end.
Directed by the visionary Spike Jonze, who directed two of the mo...
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Zombieland: trashy jokes, crappy music and delightfully under-developed ideas.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.10.09 at 1:20pm.
Sure, Zombieland might be only a throwaway film that barely whets the hunger for the next installment in George Romero’s template-making Living Dead series.
Seemingly built out of spare parts leftover from flicks such as Trainspotting and Shaun Of the Dead, it relies a little too heavily on fe...
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Bright Star: Bright Indeed
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.4.09 at 9:37am.
Jane (Sweetie, The Piano) Campion’s new film Bright Star is a fluid and fascinating attempt to refashion the traditional costume drama bio-pic.
Based on the three-year affair between British poet John Keats and clothes maker/designer Fanny Brawne, Bright Star is remarkably restrained filmmakin...
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Trailer Park Boys: Countdown To Liquor Day – A Classic
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 09.27.09 at 12:58pm.
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown To Liquor Day is supposed to be the swansong of the popular and influential Showcase TV series set right here on the East Coast.
Half an hour in and the film seems like a shrug, with everyone involved having their minds on something else, but then something very st...
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9: Indeed a 9
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 09.10.09 at 7:19am.
Shane Acker’s debut animated feature 9 is getting a rough ride from many critics who simply don’t recognize the filmmaker’s extraordinary achievement.
The terse 79-minute computer-graphic film tells a post-apocalyptic story of a clutch of burlap-bag creatures who battle a montrous machine. Whi...
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Taking Woodstock: Catching the Counterculture
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 08.26.09 at 7:46pm.
Ang Lee’s latest film, Taking Woodstock, is a slight but strikingly original take on the legendary three-day hippie musical festival held in 1969.
Surprisingly funny and often very sweet, Taking Woodstock tells the tale of the delapidated Jewish family resort that hosted the army of logisticia...
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District 9: It makes Sci-Fi feel fresh again.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 08.15.09 at 7:31am.
District 9 is one heck of a movie, a wicked Sci-Fi flick so full of ideas, humour and action that it makes the whole genre feel fresh again.
Directed by Peter Jackson acolyte Neill Blomkamp, District 9 tells the tale of end-of-their rope crustacean-like aliens getting marooned in South Africa ...
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Julie & Julia: A Double Dud
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 08.10.09 at 2:59pm.
No reviewers seem willing to admit just how horrible Nora Ephron’s new movie is.
Part bio-pic and part contemporary chick flic, Julie & Julia completely wastes the considerable talent of Meryl Streep and the extraordinary story of American TV chef Julia Child.
What was Nora Ephron thinking?...
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The Hurt Locker: An Unreserved Masterpiece
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 07.24.09 at 7:35pm.
The Hurt Locker might just be the one Iraq War movie that finally connects with audiences. It certainly is making a connection with critics. Especially this one.
Directed by the legendary female action helmer Kathryn Bigelow - who made not one but two of her features in Halifax, The Weight Of ...
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Moon: A Classic In Miniature
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 07.17.09 at 6:36pm.
Duncan Jones’s feature debut, Moon, has been attracting glowing reviews and modestly growing audiences in the midst of all the summer blockbuster hoopla.
The son of David Bowie, Jones has fashioned a fascinating chamber sci-fi flick that harkens back to the early 1970s for its style and execut...
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Public Enemies: Depp as Dillinger drowns in nostalgia
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 07.2.09 at 4:11pm.
Michael Mann’s highly anticipated Johnny Depp 1930s gangster vehicle, Public Enemies, is a curious disappointment.
Badly shot on hi-def video it runs 143 minutes - 43 minutes too long.
Yet, any movie about the famous real-life bank robber John Dillinger is going to be worth seeing. Add Depp...
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Away We Go: Doesn't Quite Get There
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 06.24.09 at 2:59pm.
American Beauty director Sam Mendes has taken up with hipster writers Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida to create the shaggy and slightly unsatisfying road movie Away We Go.
It starts promisingly. The sweet and sometimes silly stay-at-home thirtysomething couple (Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski) wh...
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Outlander: Out Of This World
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 06.19.09 at 10:55am.
Film Nova Scotia did everyone a big favour by screening the long-awaited locally made Viking/Sci-Fi flickt Outlander at the Oxford Theatre recently.
Not only did they score a 35mm film print, they brought writer/director Howard McCain and two of his producers to introduce and speak afterward.
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Easy Virtue: Easy On the Eyes
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 06.13.09 at 4:07pm.
Easy Virtue is one 1920s-written drama that seems far more durable than it should. Based on Noel Coward’s play, it features a dissolute English aristocratic family on an estate it can’t afford and an American interloper who has married uncomfortably into the clan. The resulting costume flick blen...
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Drag Me To Hell: Gross, Funny and Scary As Hell
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 05.30.09 at 3:29pm.
Legendary Evil Dead director Sam Raimi has paused long enough from counting all the money he’s made from directing the three Spider Man movies to crank out a small-scale horror tale entitled Drag Me To Hell that returns him to his shock-a-rama roots.
Scripted and co-produced with his brother I...
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Terminator: Salvation provides plenty of pop with its apocalypse
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 05.24.09 at 12:50pm.
Terminator: Salvation certainly doesn’t deserve the truckload of crappy reviews it’s piled up since it opened wide in the spring rush of popcorn movies.
Two stars here, one star there. You’d think these were critiques of the last Alien Vs Predator installment, now the tin standard for movie fr...
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Wendy And Lucy: An American Indie Classic
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 04.28.09 at 12:57pm.
This week's installment in AFCOOP’s Monday Night Movies (May 4th) series is a must-see.
American Indie writer/director Kelly Reichardt’s heartbreaking Wendy And Lucy rates as one of the truly great films of 2008.
Seeing it on the big screen, then, becomes imperative, even if Wendy And Lucy...
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Two Lovers: An Unexpected Pleasure
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 04.30.09 at 8:12am.
Two Lovers is an unexpected cinematic pleasure. The third collaboration between writer/director James Gray and actor Joaquin Phoenix (after We Own The Night and The Yards), it is a measured romance vividly anchored in the subculture of New York City’s modern day Jewish community in Brighton Beach...
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17 Again: a soggy premise gone effervescent
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 04.17.09 at 7:32pm.
Everybody’s out to get Zac Efron this weekend, with a virtual torrent of rotten reviews for his leading man debut in the high-school body switch comedy 17 Again.
Sure, it’s soggy premise has been done before (Like Father Like Son, Freaky Friday, Big and countless others) but 17 Again hardly ra...
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Sunshine Cleaning: Class struggles
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 04.11.09 at 12:46pm.
Sunshine Cleaning is one of those "quirky" indie comedies that has a surprising lack of quirk or comedy. A determined tale of lower-class sisters struggling through young adulthood in New Mexico cleaning up other people's messes - while creating their own. It piles on the pathos to deliver some c...
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Adventureland: Amusement Park Life
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 04.5.09 at 5:18am.
Greg Mottola’s latest feature Adventureland is one of those heartbreakingly definitive films that absolutely nails a time of life that’s been badly served by North American popular culture.
Following a trio of recent lower-middle-class university grads in 1987 as they attempt to transition fro...
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Pontypool: a Canuck Zombie flick par excellence
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 03.21.09 at 9:37am.
Maverick Toronto director Bruce McDonald’s follow-up to his experimental, multi-screened Elaine Page vehicle The Tracey Fragments is a ferocious genre tour-de-force. Shot on a single location, Pontypool is a Canuck Zombie flick par excellence, channeling 1970s David Cronenberg for a new millenniu...
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Stone Of Destiny: A rippingly great Boy’s Adventure Story
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 02.20.09 at 9:50am.
Sorry, but it’s simply not possible for someone with the last name Macdonald to give Stone Of Destiny a bad review.
The true-to-life story of how a quartet of patriotic students took back Scotland's Coronation Stone from Britain’s Westminister Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, is a remarkably enga...
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The Class: Grade A
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 02.17.09 at 9:35am.
The Cannes Palme D’Or-winning French flick The Class is one of those must-see films that seems a bit underwhelming at first.
Filmed verite-style in the blah Parisian suburbs, it reverses the formula of the 1960s classic To Sir With Love by placing a white teacher in the midst of a mainly immig...
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Coraline: Eye candy can't replace the jittery sense of magic.
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 02.7.09 at 6:47pm.
Stop-motion animation master Henry Selick’s adaptation of graphic novelist Neil Gaiman’s Coraline has piled up many respectful reviews. In what seems to be a growing trend, those critics might not have stayed with the film through to its end. If they had, they might have been less respectful.
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Frost/Nixon: Regrets, I've Had A Few
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 02.1.09 at 2:45pm.
Ron Howard’s latest film Frost/Nixon is the fourth major motion picture to treat the 37th President of the United States. While it is a sumptuously realized picture, with a terrific cast, the film simply cannot escape its origins from Peter Morgan’s slight stage play now inflated into big budget...
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Revolutionary Road: Good, But The Thrill Is Gone
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 01.23.09 at 5:25pm.
Theatre director and occasional filmmaker Sam Mendes (Jarhead, The Road To Perdition) has tackled a prestige novel for his latest cinematic adventure, Revolutionary Road.
Adapted from Richard Yates’ acclaimed 1961 novel which is set in suburban 1955 Connecticut, Revolutionary Road is a beautif...
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The Wrestler: Leap's Right Out of the Ring
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 01.17.09 at 6:50pm.
Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler is a triumph. Sparked by an absolutely amazing performance from former has-been Mickey Rourke, the film is a wildly redemptive tour through the wreckage of 1980s culture.
Using a surprisingly straightforward script by Robert Siegal, Aronofsky dives into an ultra...
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Gran Torino: Grand Indeed
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 01.9.09 at 4:00pm.
American cinematic icon Clint Eastwood has delivered a sly elegy to his own looming screen persona with his latest movie, Gran Torino.
Directing himself in declining inner-city Detroit with a gaggle of non-professional actors from the Hmong Community, the square-jawed actor/filmmaker shameless...
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Movie Review: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is a Tiresome Trip through Pop Culture
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 12.26.08 at 1:27pm.
The curious thing about the Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is how many great reviews it has amassed in the run-up to its Christmas Day release.
The 2-hour and 47 minute adaptation of a fanciful F. Scott Fitzgerald short story is a bloated mess. It begins promisingly as a magic realist fable s...
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Milk: Tastes Great
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 12.10.08 at 7:37pm.
Gus Van Sant’s return to conventional filmmaking, the shockingly traditional bio-pic Milk, is just about what everyone says it is: a triumph of conventional movie-making and a welcome sellout to the mainstream. It sports some tremendous acting from Sean Penn - in the lead role as San Francisco Su...
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Synecdoche, New York: A Grey and Glacial Filmgoers' Challenge
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 12.2.08 at 10:53am.
Maverick film writer Charlie Kaufman - the script author of off-beat flicks like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation and Being John Malkovich - has delivered a surprisingly dour but imaginative directoral debut in the 125-minute curio Synecdoche, New York.
Starring a humorless Ph...
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Twilight: a landmark post-modern women’s film
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.22.08 at 10:43am.
Twilight is a much-anticipated, vastly-hyped and surprisingly strong entry in the post-Buffy teenage vampire sweepstakes.
Adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s gazillions-selling book, the film gains traction on its own from the sterling work of screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and director Catherine H...
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Quantum Of Solace Is No Quantam Leap
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.17.08 at 8:18pm.
After Casino Royale singlehandedly revived and re-energized the James Bond franchise, it’s quite natural that the follow up Quantum Of Solace would feel a bit like a disappointment.
Still, Daniel Craig is a formidable clench-jawed 007. And there’s enough bone-jarring action to power five or si...
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Changeling Is Clint Eastwood's Masterpiece
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.1.08 at 4:20pm.
American filmmaking Icon Clint Eastwood has had a pretty good run in the last decade with flicks such as Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and the Flags Of Our Fathers - Letters From Iwo Jima double header.
So why are reviewers so tepid in their response to the granite jawed actor/director’s l...
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W.: Oliver Stone's Fair and Engrossing Take on George Bush
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.26.08 at 9:59am.
Oliver Stone’s presidential bio-pic W. has surprised just about everybody with its gutsy and shockingly fair portrait of the two-term US Chief Executive from Texas.
Shot through with Stone’s trademark aggressive filmmaking style - there’s lots of jumping back and forth in time, expressive came...
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Burn After Reading: A slightly under-cooked, very funny spy farce
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.13.08 at 3:01pm.
Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest, Burn After Reading, has been hanging around theatres for almost a month now. A slightly under-cooked spy farce set in and around Washington DC, it’s a film that’s built up some surprising staying power.
Dismissed by many as a minor comedy - time-wasting filler aft...
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Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist: Que Cera, Cera
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.5.08 at 2:57pm.
To call the new Michael Cera romantic comedy slight is putting it lightly. Nick And Nora’s Infinite Playlist attempts to make a leading man out of the young, po-faced Canadian actor who was so effective last year in Superbad.
Director Peter Sollet, who has certainly come down in the world sinc...
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Miracle At Saint Anna: Spike Lee's third cinematic masterpiece in a row
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 09.28.08 at 12:09pm.
Spike Lee’s latest film, Miracle At Saint Anna, has accumulated some wildly divergent reviews. Some have acclaimed it as brilliant and insightful; others have denounced it as lumpy and uneven. Currently it’s got a 28 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, hardly a fair consideration of such an import...
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Lakeview Terrace: A Creepy Picture of Race Relations
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 09.22.08 at 7:30pm.
Lakeview Terrace might initially seem like a standard studio assignment on first view. Surprisingly, it’s topped the box-office charts for its opening weekend.
A creepy neighbour potboiler superbly realized by director - playwright Neil LaBute, it’s a perfect vehicle for character actor Samue...
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Hamlet 2: Maybe the best movie ever about the witless enthusiasm of theatre
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 08.29.08 at 10:07am.
Riotously funny, sharply satiric and tremendously acted, Hamlet 2 might just be the best movie about the witless enthusiasm of theatre ever made.
Driven by a jaw-droppingly effective performance by Brit Actor Steeve Coogan, whose air-headed American attitude and accent are honed to perfection ...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Woody Allen's Gaudi adventure
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 08.16.08 at 7:25am.
After a brief filmmaking exile in England, Woody Allen's European tour continues with a side-trip to Spain. The result is the slight but occasionally delightful comedy Vicki Cristina Barcelona.
Powered by two delicious performances by Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz - who lift the rest of the ...
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Brideshead Revisited: Once More With Feeling
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 08.5.08 at 12:12pm.
A remake of Evelyn Waugh’s famous novel Brideshead Revisited would seem to rather unnecessary. After all, that landmark 1980s British TV series made a star out of Jeremy Irons and provoked copycat fashion mini-revivals of 1930s Oxford scarves and sweaters in the trend-happy United Kingdom just be...
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Dark Knight: "It’s great from start to finish"
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 07.24.08 at 6:06pm.
Rarely has a film lived up to its advance hype as has The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan’s remarkable revival of a once dead cinematic comic book franchise.
There were so many people at the Tuesday night 8 pm screening I witnessed the audience spilling onto the ver...
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