There isn’t really too much to the story of The Ides of March, which is very by-the-book political drama. Essentially the film follows an idealist staff member (Ryan Gosling) of a potential presidential candidate (George Clooney), who is slowly corrupted by all the backroom backstabbing that happens in the political world. The cast of the […]
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I initially missed Contagion when it was released a month ago, since it conflicted with the Toronto Film Festival. However, I managed have some free time today, so I finally checked it out. In this film, an American woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) is infected with a new type of virus while on a trip to Hong Kong.
You wouldn’t really expect cancer to be something that you can laugh at, however 50/50 does manage to find humour in a possibly dire situation – for the first half of the film at least. The film is about the attempts of a young man (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to cope with his diagnosis of a
For those who are unaware, Super 8 is an 8mm film format, which was a popular format for making home movies in the days before VHS. These days, the format is really only used by aficionados and film students (I myself made a Super 8 film in one of my film classes). For J.J. Abrams‘
Meek’s Cutoff is the latest film by director Kelly Reichardt and it is currently playing at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of a retrospective on the director. The film is somewhat slow-paced western about a caravan of people in the 1800s, who are travelling across Oregon looking for a place to settle (or at least a
If it wasn’t for the fact that it was the debut feature of the reopened Humber Cinema, I would have likely skipped this fifth entry in the Fast and the Furious series, like I did with the previous four films. That said, I can at least say that I was at least able to understand who
I have been hearing a lot of comparisons between this film and Liam Neeson‘s surprise 2008 hit Taken. However, while they are both films that feature Neeson in a genre he is not usually known for, they are two different types of film. While the term is probably overused, the best description of Unknown would be
Darren Aronofsky is known for being a bit of a visionary, so it would have been obvious that a film about ballet would turn out to be more than meets the eye. It would be hard to talk about this film without going into spoiler-territory, however I can say that the film is about a
At the very least, I have to say that it was good for Wes Craven to attempt to make an original horror film before going off an directing the fourth entry of the Scream series (due in theatres next April). I’m quite indifferent with how the film turned out. I thought it started off okay
After the combination the Toronto Film Festival and my trip to Calgary, I had a bit of a backlog of movies I wanted to see. As such, this week I decided to see the three-week old Devil, instead of one of the newer releases. For this film M Night Shyamalan moves into the producer’s seat,
