In about two weeks time, the film Tower, directed by Kazik Radwanski, will be opening for a run at the Royal Cinema in downtown Toronto. I previously saw the film when it played at TIFF last September and I received great feedback on my interpretation of the film, most notably from Radwanski himself. I viewed […]
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You might recall that a few months ago, I posted a review for a film entitled Beneath, which was directed by friend and York University classmate David Hollands. Well, I thought that I would spread the word on his latest film, which is entitled Destination: Rad-City. Written and co-directed by Boris Godzinevski, Destination: Rad-City is
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This news sort of caught me off guard tonight. I was away from home and checking twitter, when I started seeing a lot of tweets referring to the death of film-maker Tony Scott, the brother of Ridley, best known for directing Top Gun and True Romance. I actually had to backtrack a bit through tweets and articles before
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I don’t usually post trailers for foreign films, but I absolutely had to talk about this Takashi Miike-directed adaptation of one of my all-time favourite videogame series. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney was a role playing game that had you search for evidence that would help you win a simulated court case. Because the game is mostly images and
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That’s right folks! They are continuing to churn out sequels to the Paranormal Activity films and the trailer has just surfaced for the fourth entry in the series. I have plenty to say on this trailer. I still the first Paranormal Activity to be a quite terrifying film. However, it resulted in two things. The first thing it
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The news has spread today that film critic and theorist Andrew Sarris has died at the age of 83. In the field of Film Studies, I’m most familiar with Sarris as being the one who wrote the English definition for the auteur theory, which was originally theorized by François Truffaut in Cahiers du Cinéma. In his short, but poignant,
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So, today I went to iTunes Movie Trailers to see what I thought was the first trailer for the film Looper, which is the new film directed by Rian Johnson (Brick) and is one of my most anticipated films of the year. Instead, I got a 50 second vignette of Rian Johnson and star Joseph Gordon-Levitt hyping
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As the latest product of Hollywood’s seemingly never-ending remake cycle, we have a new trailer out for the remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger science fiction film Total Recall, which is now starring Collin Farrell. I only have a very basic knowledge of the plot of the original (which I have yet to see), which is
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Even though the film series apparently concluded with The Bourne Ultimatum, Jeremy Renner takes the reigns as a new superspy, who to aims to continue The Bourne Legacy. There is not much plot given in this teaser trailer, which introduces the character of Aaron Cross, who is in a program similar to the one Jason
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A new trailer has just debuted for the new reboot of the Spider-Man series, which is directed by Marc Webb and stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Rhys Ifans. One thing that’s apparent by this trailer is that they are trying greatly contrast this film with Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films. Not only are there obvious differences, such
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