This is one of those films where everything that you need to know about it is in the title. The film is pretty much done as a straight-forward western, except for the fact that the villains just happen to be alien invaders. I think it’s this western/sci-fi genre-bending that makes the film so fun to […]
Captain America is the final of the interconnected Marvel comics films leading up to next year’s release of The Avengers. I still think it’s amazing the they had the patience to set-up The Avengers over the course of five separate films in a four year period. At this point, I don’t think I need to say that
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Woody Allen’s latest film Midnight in Paris has been out for nearly two months now, however my interest was peaked a few days when it was reported that the film has become the highest grossing film of Allen’s career (thankfully, the film was still playing in Toronto). You can definitely tell that this is a Woody
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A decade of Harry Potter films ends with this very climatic final installment of the series. Since this is the second half of a two-part story, the action picks up pretty quickly and it is definitely the most action-packed film in the entire series. After being absent for Part 1, the action returns to Hogwarts, which
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In this meta-comedy, British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play themselves as they go on a road trip, visiting many restaurants and sites in the English countryside. Along the way Coogan pines about his stalled career, while he competes with Brydon on who can do the best Michael Caine impersonation. It bit more complex than that,
I have to say that I probably only saw this film because I thought it was the only semi-decent film playing on what is pretty much an off-week between the releases of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Part 2. I thought this was a so-so comedy with some decent laughs
Werner Herzog is definitely one of the most unique directors around today. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, he successfully managed to split between doing fictional films and documentaries. This film features the exploration of a cave, which was discovered in France in 1994, that featured the oldest cave paintings ever discovered, dating back
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So here is the second part of my IMAX contrast, with this one centering on the habit of using the format as a premium way of seeing major blockbuster films. With at least one major film released in IMAX every month, it’s hard to believe that this is a habit that only really began a decade ago.
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This weekend, I am going to post two reviews that can be looked side-by-side at the ways the IMAX film format is used. Today is an example of the classic use. The Ontario Place Cinesphere is the world’s first permanent IMAX theatre and it is the best example of the format’s classic use – the
If the main critical consensus is to be believed, Cars 2 is by and large the worst animated film Pixar has made in their entire (25 year) career. However, I didn’t really see anything wrong with the movie. I believe that critics are so used to films from Pixar that resonate with adults just as much of kids,
