TIFF 13 Films in Review

TIFF 13 Films in Review

The 2013 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is behind us and I can say that I had a fairly satisfying year.  Altogether, I saw a total of 24 films as part of this year’s festival.  This was my first year doing double duty for the film festival, since I wrote a number of…

Prometheus

Prometheus

Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction in 30 years began as a sort of prequel to Alien that expanded the backstory of the origins of the mysterious ship where the alien creatures were originally found. Indeed those prequel elements are still very much present within Prometheus.  However, it seems that Scott decided all but severe the…

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Ridley Scott’s new film version of Robin Hood received fairly poor reviews from most critics.  However, I feel that it might have fared better if it didn’t have the stigma of being attached to the classic story. Let it be said that this is not the traditional Robin Hood story that has been told in…

American Gangster

American Gangster

Celebrity sighting aside, what did I actually think of the film? I can definitely say that it is NOT this year’s Departed. It’s not bad film, but I thought it was a very formulaic film. The entire plot goes back and forth between Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe‘s stories. The stories don’t even begin to…